Combat Athletes Quotes

I've never said no to any fight the UFC has asked of me.

I'd love to get that Mayweather fight. Not even for the money, just for the fact of proving us UFC fighters got what it takes to get in that ring.

Your body's really only meant to compete at the highest levels of combat sports for a few years.

This sport is crazy, it moves along and we all have a short memory. No one realizes when fighters are out. They just remember their last fight and how they look now.

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.

The thing I hate about mixed martial arts is that it's no longer a sport. It's a big-money business, and it's an entertainment industry.

I can't watch a Mayweather fight. I don't find it exciting.

One of my favorite topics to read about my whole life has just been famous athletes, and a lot of those have been combat athletes.

I would say, look, any fighter that's out there or any star athlete - not star athlete in the sense of a baseball player, but like a Brock Lesnar - that really wants to fight, we're going to have a conversation with them. Because if they can move the needle, we're going to want them on Spike TV.

The UFC was my home and will always be my home. I helped creating and building that home.

Mixed Martial Arts is a dangerous practice that could result in injuries and loss of life.

For Conor McGregor, I'm coming out of retirement just to fight Conor McGregor.

Obviously, everyone knows it is hard to hang it up, but I'm definitely going to try and do it the right way and not like how combat athletes have done and hold on too long for every last fleeting moment. I don't want to be one of those people.

There are a lot of sports that New Zealand does very well but MMA is a truly global sport and it's practiced in the farthest reaches of this earth.

Trust me, I've seen a lot of fighters come in hot and they disappear faster than they came in after a loss or two. This is the UFC and the best fighters in the world are here. If you fight the great fighters you're bound to lose.