Roy Nelson Quotes

Sometimes I can wake up and I can beat anyone.

Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.

It took me a long time to realize that to walk around without a certain amount of belief in myself, to walk onto a job with my tail between my legs, wasn't behooving anyone else.

I'm still the best bantamweight in the world in my mind, yes. If I had any doubt that I was the best in the world then I shouldn't be competing. If you don't think you're going to be the best, what's the point?

There's not a woman in this world that can beat me if we put on a pair of gloves and we fight. I've accomplished so much.

I dominate, and I break guys' wills. When they come to fight me, they know they're going to be in for a fight, and it's going to be a test of wills.

What it really comes down to is that I believe I'm the best pound-for-pound fighter in the world, and to do that, I need to beat the best.

I really believe I can knock anyone out in this world.

I certainly fear no one, and I know I can go out there and match up with the world's best.

I back my power, and I back my chin, and I back my speed.

That's good when the guy has confidence. It's not bad. I want to fight someone who thinks like that.

Take the place and attitude to which you see your unquestionable right, and all men acquiesce.

First, do enough training. Then believe in yourself and say: I can do it. Tomorrow is my day. And then say: the person in front of me, he is just a human being as well; he has two legs, I have two legs, that is all. That is mentally how you prepare.

No, because I think I have a reason to believe in myself and I think I'm also pretty confident about who I am and what I'm doing and it might be because I'm still at the top too.

I do my own thing. And I believe what I do is the right thing.

When you feel powerful, you are willing to stand up for your rights, you are willing to stand up for what you believe in, you're more willing to stand up and be counted.

If you know your game, you can handle pressure; you can handle any kind of situation, back yourself, and play your own game and get success.

I know what I believe, I know what I want to do, and I'm just comfortable saying it, and laying it out there.

I've always had this strong sense that I know best.

Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.

I don't think I should be underestimated.

Show me a guy who's afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time.

I think it's really finding that belief in yourself, where you just have it no matter what's going on, no matter what anyone else says. I think that's the challenge, is to really have that belief in yourself.

I mean, as an athlete, as a competitor, you have to have that belief in yourself.

It doesn't matter how much polite self-deprecating fluff you have on the outside if you don't have a steely something in the middle that says, 'You know what, I'm actually really, really good at this, and this is what I can do, and I'm going to do it.'