Urijah Faber Quotes

I had people come up from NXT and say to me, 'one thing we know is that we hear you're a bully,' I say that I am because I know that I am going to be bullied back at some point so I might as well start it.

I had a lot of fights in high school.

My dad always told me to stand up to bullies, and Bill O'Reilly is kind of a bully, and he's the kind of kid who hits other kids on the playground. And when you hit him, he runs to the teacher and says, 'Teacher, sue him.'

Over the years, during television interviews, whenever the host or the reviewer or whoever gets cynical and nasty with me, I will behave accordingly. I will defend myself.

My dad always used to tell me that if they challenge you to an after-school fight, tell them you won't wait-you can kick their ass right now.

It's kinda cool seeing people having real fights with people they really know.

I grew up in an environment where being polite was taken as a weakness. So I just fought everybody.

Fighting was a problem for me in high school.

Guys get hurt in fights. It doesn't mean you stop a fight every time somebody gets hurt.

Most of my good friends have fights with me. Those guys know that I was in martial arts for 12 years fighting on the circuit.

When you have a lot of communication, it picks up the aggressiveness with everybody on the court.

My last fight was more than 20 years ago. I'm not a fighter, I'm a lover. If somebody's going to speak bad about me, I will walk away. But if a guy like Steven Seagal slaps me once, I will slap him twice as hard. Life is full of violence.

Well, I'm not a violent person. You have to back off. People sometimes will try you and try you until you try not to, but you have to react. Normally, I just walk away.

Well, a girlfriend once told me never to fight with anybody you don't love.

If someone criticizes me, I strike back.

Talking back and being quite aggressive about stuff and not giving a care in the world about anyone. So it was more, I think, that way and I think that's what happened in that party when I stood in between two people.

Nowadays, if you are afraid of confrontation, you are not going to do very well.

We need to do something about the culture of violence.

A lot of times, you had to beat the bullies at their own game. But the difficulty is not becoming the bully yourself.

To be honest with you, most of the times I have fought, there has been a reason.

A fight can express things people might not be able to say with words.

Fights in real life between real people only last so long before someone gets seriously hurt.

So many bad things happen in this world because people don't know how to express things.

I don't know a single person in life that doesn't have conflict.

Fighting is not a man's thing, it is a human thing.