Roy Nelson Quotes

I remember watching Barry Sanders highlights as a kid, and the Lions always being a fun team. I, personally, really never had a real negative connotation with the team. And I didn't really listen to those who did after I was drafted.

I have a lot of respect for every opponent. I don't know if there's just one who I say, 'that guy intimidates me.' When I was young and first came into the league, Ray Lewis was that guy. I was young.

I've been to just one AFC championship game.

I want to finish my career as a Dolphin and win a championship here. That's what they brought me here for and that's what I came to do.

It's easier to make the NFL than WWE.

The Super Bowl is a realistic goal.

I think the Olympic Games have been married to political statements. If I go back to Berlin in 1936, it was very politically orientated then, just with the Nazis.

Seeing myself as a champion in WWE is something I've seen from the first day I stepped into the Universe and the realm of the company.

Ronda Rousey is coming to WWE at such a great time because we're a big family here, and we try to help everyone succeed. She has passion for it, which is awesome, and she respects the business, which is awesome. Everyone has been helping her and walking her through everything.

Ric Flair is an old nemesis of mine.

I was a wrestling-style champion, and the Hulkster was a talking-style.

I think they've got to give Kevin Owens a run with the belt. He's a veteran, and he's really clicking on the mic, and the kid is super talented.

Tom Brady is good, real good...but he plays in same league as I do.

If you look at the Olympic Games as a whole, if we would say we didn't want to interject politics into the games, then why are we using nation's flags? Why don't we use one Olympic flag to encompass all the Olympians, as opposed to being separatists in terms of China versus Russia or Russia versus the United States? Why don't we just say man versus man?

I'm excited about the opportunity to go back out there with my teammates and get another chance at this thing [a Super Bowl].

I know how difficult my rookie year in the NFL was and I know how competitive this sport is.

Every man in the game, from the minors on up, is not only fighting against the other side, but he's trying to hold onto his own job against those on his own bench who'd love to take it away. Why deny this? Why minimize it? Why not boldly admit it?

I'm looking forward to making a Super Bowl run in Atlanta every year.

I am alarmed at the subtle invasion of professional football, which is gaining preeminence over baseball. It's unthinkable.

Breastroke is an athletic event, butterfly is a political statement.

I don't have to play for the Eagles.

Other sports culminate at different times of the year, but the NFL is in the fourth quarter - that's where the money is.

Writing the book was a pretty cool thing to go through, it really made me think of how crazy a journey it really was for this kid from Redwood City, Calif. When I was 12 years old, I was practicing my signature, but did I ever think I'd be a two-time Super Bowl champ, playing on arguably one of the best franchises of all time with the best quarterback of all time, for the best coach of all time?

Oh my God, you're serious. Honey, I am a six time Women's Champion, if you get into the ring with me it will not be for a Lingerie Pillow Fight, it will not be to shoot t-shirts. If you get into the ring with me I will end your career just like that. Are you sure that's what you want?

No other sporting event can compare with a good Series. The Super Bowl is a three-hour interruption in a week of drink and Rotarian parties.