Roy Nelson Quotes

I respect Conor McGregor a lot because this man changed everything in the UFC.

My show was revolutionary, ground-breaking. When I came on the scene, people were not doing a thing.

Anderson Silva, Georges Saint-Pierre, and Rodrigo Nogueira are some of the top fighters in the UFC among many other great fighters. The UFC has many of the toughest fighters around.

Don't follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.

Sometimes, when everyone else is waiting for someone else to take the first step, you need to be the one to drive the change.

Anything done for the first time unleashes a demon.

Leaders have followers, managers have employees. Managers make widgets, leaders make change.

You walk into the locker room, and you see players with their ripping muscles and stomachs you could wash your clothes in.

The mark of greatness is when everything before you is obsolete, and everything after you bears your mark.

The new leader is one who commits people to action, who converts followers into leaders, and who may convert leaders into agents of change.

Great men are the modelers, patterns, and in a wide sense creators, of whatsoever the general mass of men contrived to do and attain.

Leadership is about creating new realities.

I just could just shave my beard, and nobody would recognize me. Although I look like Jodie Foster.

It's really exciting to be a part of something new that's pushing boundaries.

I have always thought that while it's wonderful to be the first to do something, you don't want to be the last.

None save great men have been the authors of great heresies.

America was my home for a very long time, and it's a fascinating, pioneering country that many people look to. In the recent past it hasn't been doing very well, but there's a great new hope now with the election of Obama. America took a very big leap there and proved that it still has the edge as far as being able to do things many other countries may find difficult.

I always want to do something groundbreaking, something different. I think that's what it's always about. If you have the means to do it, why not?

Have you ever started a path? No one seems willing to do this. We don't mind using existing paths, but we rarely start new ones. Do it today. Start a path. Even if it doesn't lead anywhere

Ideas are the greatest and most crucially practical power on earth.

We should be focusing on building things that do not exist.

I'm always careful to say that I changed everything I found.

Men of great genius and large heart sow the seeds of a new degree of progress in the world, but they bear fruit only after many years.

You can only inspire when you give people a new way of looking at the world in which they live.

There is great truth in Alphonse Karr's remark that modern men are ugly because they do not wear their beards.