Samoa Joe Quotes

When I started wrestling, I never wanted to go to WWE. It was the Japanese life for me.

'Fight Master' is a show that Spike came up with. Obviously, Spike has a vested interest in Bellator, which is filling a void that was created when the UFC and 'The Ultimate Fighter' left and went to Fox. I think this fills a huge piece of the puzzle for the folks at Spike, in terms of demographics and what programming they like to do.

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

Brock Lesnar likes to get his rest time, you know what I'm saying?

Really, it was either fight in the UFC or fight in the WWE. There wasn't the option of both. That was a key factor. What am I going to do? I didn't want to juggle two careers anyway.

I could never see myself getting in a ring and wrestling Zack Ryder.

Promoters do bigger numbers when Ken Shamrock's name is on the card.

The obvious thing is I would love to fight Conor McGregor. We've got some history there, and he won, and people saying he didn't knock me out because of an injury he had. I was injured in the fight, too, so let's test that theory. I want to test that theory.

The UFC has a mind of its own. Whatever they want to do, I'm down for.

As far as the UFC, if they offer us a fair deal, then we would be open to fighting in the UFC.

If Brock Lesnar wants to fight in UFC, Brock Lesnar will fight in UFC. If Brock Lesnar wants to fight in WWE, he will fight in WWE.

I expect The Rock would want to keep his pretty face intact for Hollywood. He better stay away from me in the ring. But honestly, anybody who wants to get into the ring with me and take the world title, just try!

I'm an employee, I work for the UFC.

You can call WWE whatever you want, but at the end of the day, it's a fight and fighting is my specialty.

I think, ya know, he's called out a few WWE Superstars; I wouldn't mind taking a crack at Conor McGregor, and he's, like, 165 pounds, 185 pounds soaking wet. So, I would like to slam him on his head a few times.

KSW might just be the best promotion you've never heard of.

UFC is not a competitor to the WWE because we are entertainment and UFC is competitive sport. It's very different.

As long as we have enough fighters and fight cards to keep everybody fighting three times a year, that's where I want our roster to be.

I did some really heavy, intensive clinics with Billy Robinson. Anyone that knows anything about Billy, he was a mean old dude! I survived training with him and Josh Barnett, right in the same vein, my head coach for, like, 12 years.

I want that fight with Brock Lesnar. I don't care if it's the ring, the cage, or in a street fight.

When I got into the sport and wrote down my goals, it was never to be a UFC main event or to be a on a UFC main card. It was to be the UFC champion.

People keep saying EC3 is the heart and soul of TNA: that he's this homegrown star, and he is going to be this big star. But fans don't understand that I'm the true star - I came off Vince McMahon's TV.

I have a stake in a company called Super Fight League, which is an MMA company in India, and we have a lot of shows in Dubai, too.

I think I would have liked to have experienced the whole NXT thing.

Whatever Dana White and Joe Silva have planned for me, I'm ready.