Gegard Mousasi Quotes

It is not acceptable that European Union countries are divided into those who give and those who take.

If everybody lives in the same way, there's something almost narcotizing about it, but the true misery of economic class difference is knowing that you can't have what somebody else does.

Nothing incites to money-crimes like great poverty or great wealth.

When you're watching people in non-title fights making four times the amount of money that a champion makes, it takes away the flavor of being a champion.

I got to world champion, No 1-rated fighter in the division and managed to earn from the defences.

I make, like, three or four times more when I don't fight than when I do fight. And, I'm one of the higher-paid guys in the UFC, which is remarkably tragic and pathetic.

Look at guys like Demetrious Johnson, who's the pound-for-pound best fighter in the world. Why isn't he on the largest pay scale? Why are there people that aren't even champions making more money?

It would be bad for the squad if one player had a much higher salary than the rest.

I've won five bonuses in my nine fight UFC career.

Money doesn't always define basketball.

I remember in a film of mine, though both my co-star and I were newcomers, he got far better paid than me. I was shocked and appalled. I actually asked him what different are you doing that you are getting better paid!

There's a very practical reason why Pete Sampras, for example, makes a lot more money than Martina Hingis does. He's much, much better than she is.

The disparity between the haves and have-nots was always blatantly obvious to me, and it's that exact gap that drove me to start writing and pick up a pen. I wanted to explain and understand the world around me because it was easy to see it was corrupted.

I just feel that all the top fighters in the world are making all the money.

I don't feel an obligation to go by the rankings - we all know how those rankings are produced anyway. I want to go out there and fight the money fight.

The UFC isn't this whole glamor everybody thinks. They don't pay you right.

I was the poorest kid in my school, poorest kid in my town, poorest family. That stayed with me forever.

The UFC makes 80, and athletes make 20. That's what happens. That's the real story.

As an immigrant, I truly believed when I was coming to this country that people had the tools necessary to life to live a life that is prosperous, that is just and free. So, every single day, I am shocked with the hypocrisy of this country. That we are the wealthiest nation in the world. But we cannot figure out how to house our homeless people.

I do get paid well as an MMA fighter, but this isn't boxing and I feel like we should get paid like this is boxing.

I've never asked for more money, not one time in my career. I fought Demian Maia for $30,000. The No. 2 guy in the world, I was fighting for $30,000. So I don't care about money.

That's what it's all about in MMA, we're not the highest paid athletes in the world, so when you can get the big money fights you have to take them.

The promotions put fighters against each other, and they don't want to pay anything to them. If you refuse to fight, the promoter shows up - and sometimes he wants to show off more than the fighters. This is a shame.

Most women's races don't pay much at all.

One of the most significant factors contributing to the chasm of educational opportunity is the way that schools are funded.