Rafael dos Anjos Quotes

From the very beginning, every time I trained for a fight, I didn't train to beat the guy I was fighting. I trained to beat Anderson Silva.

Leaving active duty was so I could become the best fighter in the world at my weight class.

I give a lot of credit to my training partners and to my coaches. Both Greg Jackson and Michael Winklejohn are amazing.

To do eleven fights in four months is pretty crazy. In some shows that we do in Asia, there are three or four fights over a six-month period, so you have time to recover and gain your stamina.

I've been through Strikeforce, UFC now, but I never leave fights busted up.

The day I step in the cage with Cyborg, I will be 100% prepared.

I know since my first fight in the UFC I can beat Ronda Rousey, but of course I have to take my time and put everything together.

I train for whatever happens. I'm prepared for wherever the fight goes.

Anytime you think about ring rust and travel and camps back-to-back, it helps not having any bad injuries and being able to train consistently.

If you want to fight in the UFC, you've got to realize that you are just an elephant in the circus. As soon as you ask for more peanuts, you have to go find a different circus.

I like to train and then step in the cage and do my job. This is the thing that I like to do.

Whatever UFC wants to do or any opponent they want to give me, I'll be ready for that.

The cut made me hate the process of getting ready for a fight. I was focused on how to make weight instead of how to beat my opponent.

All I can do is make sure Demetrious Johnson does the best he can on fight night and goes out and wins his fights.

You do have to fight different when you might have to fight three times in one night. I really like fighting just one time a night, this lets you do more things.

When people first started watching UFC, it seemed like a no-holds barred event... early on it looked like all the fighters were crazy. Actually, there are a lot of techniques, and the reality shows have let people see the fighters behind the scenes.

I'd always told people that I would have liked to pursue some sort of professional fight career. I don't know if I'm quite right for it, since I'm extremely prone to injury. I've been boxing for a couple years, and I've messed around with some Jiu-Jitsu, and I've always felt that there's such a passion in a real fighter's heart.

I'm committed to the fight game.

When I first got into the sport it was all about who could cut the most weight, who could be the biggest on fight night. That's the same era when you're sparring 10 five minute rounds, new partner every two and a half minutes, that era of just really hard weight cutting and really hard full contact training.

I'm going to show I'm the best fighter in the world.

I come from one of the great coaches - Matt Hume, Brad Kertson - and my skill set is well-rounded.

When it comes to strength, I reckon pound for pound I'm one of the strongest in the whole UFC.

Some days I have off like Thursday and Sunday but typically Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday are dedicated to training if I'm in fight camp.

When I was competing in Muay Thai I used to fight every month.

I just want to go out and compete. Plus the main thing is, at 55 I need a good amount of time to prepare just to make the weight cut. At 70 I can just take fights as they come and just compete as much as I want.