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M.M.A. is growing, and it's a basic wrestling sport. A lot of fighters are ex-wrestlers. A lot of guys take the easy way out, make quick money.
I think with every heavyweight, there's a style that makes for a different fight with different fighters.
The Klitschkos don't care about being great fighters, whereas I do. They may be big in Switzerland, but so are yodellers, and nobody wants to watch them fight.
I tell my sons all the time, 'The most important thing in your life is fitness,' but a lot of fighters go overboard.
A lot of fighters just go to the gym and spar or wrestle, but they forget about their conditioning. Things like that cause lots of injuries.
Training with the best fighters in the world and getting top coaching - I do feel it improved me a lot as a fighter.
There are lots of jiu-jitsu fighters who finish fights and have good MMA jiu-jitsu, but I think I've applied techniques which I can teach other people.
When I was starting out the announcers would name everyone from the boxing board at ringside and by the time they got to the fighters they were almost an afterthought.
A lot of great fighters were amateur wrestlers first and you can study them on film to see how they adapted the techniques.
It's been frustrating. Since I've broken into the top five, I've seen the politics of fighters dodging fights, cherry picking fights and this that and the other.
If it wasn't for us fighters, who have carried the sport on our backs since the very beginning... without fighters there is no fight, there's no event, and no show.
I don't want to look like all the other fighters. I've been proud to not be or act or look like any other fighters.
I've been in the fight business my whole life. I know fighters.
I could never say that fear really gets to me. I'm not one of those fighters like Nigel Benn who says, 'I thrive on fear.' I walk through fear.
I think we have a great opportunity as fighters and athletes to be good role models. I'm by no means perfect, but I think we can try.
I'm guilty of reverse discrimination. I'm white, and people don't think that white fighters are any good.
I feel like I'm a great fighter and have been proving it over and over again, running through all types of fighters, and I've passed every test with flying colors.
Normally for me, it's not interesting. When do you see in the jungle, female fighters fighting each other? I mean it's not human nature.
A lot of fighters complain, 'Man he's five pounds heavier than me.' Really? It doesn't matter, man.
You see a lot of fighters who just got into the UFC getting a lot more recognition than the people who have been in there.
There are a lot of details you have to work out when you're talking about fighters competing twice in one night.
I believe that the fighters know. It's just the people not actually fighting who need to understand more that we're putting our lives on the line.
Sometimes when you get older, you need to tone down the trash talking, and sometimes you need younger fighters to bring it out of you.
I'm always training to fight the best fighters in the world, and if the UFC wants me to fight Georges St-Pierre, then I will fight him.
Looking back, I couldn't get enough fights because Don King owned most of the top 10 fighters, and he never gave me a fight.
I used to make $300 a week, struggling to put food on the table, but I have become one of the highest-paid fighters in the world. I feel that's destiny.
We need real and dedicated fighters and champions in the UFC. It's simply the best organization in the world.
I want to fight the best fighters and I feel like Danny Garcia at his best, nobody can touch me.
I've beaten a lot of great fighters, but people say the big ones, I've lost them all. I don't want to go down as a guy who loses his big fights.
I've said this before, but I need to repeat it again: Nothing impresses me more than when MMA fighters handle a particularly tough defeat with grace and class.
Every fight, I try to get out there and set an example to show the rest of the world we have fighters from Australia, and we're for real, and we're here to stay.
It's very rare in British boxing that you have two fighters who are both undefeated and who are both world champions.
I think the fighters, we deserve certain respect, because we put our bodies and health on the line to entertain people.
The most famous athletes throughout the history of time are fighters.
You can't duplicate me. A lot of fighters come out with a certain amount of style, and I like to see that, but they get smashed up a little bit.
People don't like to see a sloppy fight, to see heavyweights wallow around. They like to see exciting fighters.
One of the most popular MMA fighters ever, Kimbo was a charismatic, larger-than-life personality that transcended the sport.
I know the UFC's a big organization, the best athletes and fighters are here, so... every third or fourth month, I'm ready to fight.
I'm going to be one of the best fighters coming out of Philadelphia and one of the best Latino fighters who's ever done it.
Not many fighters respect Chael Sonnen because he's in the wrong sport. He should be in pro-wrestling with a mouth like that.
We put on fights between the best fighters; we don't put on freak shows.
All my fighters know I'm a fan of theirs. They know I think of them as the stars and that we will facilitate in the building of their stock.
I'm very open to fight Valentina Shevchenko. I always want to fight the best fighters and I think that she is one of the top female fighters in the world.
This is what Philadelphia fighters are all about - rising to the occasion - and that's what I've been doing my whole career.
If promoters figure out a way to keep the fighters happy then those fighters will tell other fighters and that promotion will win.
As long as we have enough fighters and fight cards to keep everybody fighting three times a year, that's where I want our roster to be.
I've seen a lot of the great fighters, so I've always been a fan of the Puerto Rican fighters and I'm happy to be one myself.
I treat people and I deal with my fighters and I deal with the fans like a real person. I don't come out and read canned statements written by our lawyers.
I still know I'm a true champion, I'm a great fighter, some of the best fighters of all time have a loss, or more than a couple of losses.
I like most of the guys in the sport. They're my friends. We're not going to mistreat the fighters. I wouldn't mistreat a friend and so I won't mistreat my fighters.