Cris Cyborg Quotes

You go out there and say I fight for the UFC, people know exactly what that is.

Middleweight is the best division in the UFC, in MMA in my opinion.

I'm a huge UFC fan. I train. I do jiu-jitsu, taekwondo.

I train with the best team and the best gym in the world at American Top Team, and we know how to fight.

I want to fight a UFC fighter.

UFC have the best fighters.

It was very important to me to join an organization that has an established track record of helping young fighters grow into world class athletes and champions. Gladiator Challenge has been a home to such fighters as Quinton Jackson, Rashad Evans, Urijah Faber, Tyson Griffin, Chael Sonnen, Michael McDonald, and many others.

I respect all the fighters. I respect Georges St-Pierre because Georges has a great story in the UFC. I respect all the fighters in here because this is the biggest sport in the world.

We need real and dedicated fighters and champions in the UFC. It's simply the best organization in the world.

In the UFC, it's about names. Every fight is hard, and everybody knows all the disciplines. Some might know more than others.

It's easy to enter the UFC, but staying there isn't.

My favorite fighter is Anderson Silva.

I'm ready for anybody. If it's John Dodson, if it's Demetrious Johnson, if it's Joseph Benavidez, I'm ready for whichever one, whoever wants a piece of me.

I came to the UFC to fight with top-level fighters and become the undisputed, undefeated champion. This is my goal.

Georges St-Pierre is a good fighter who is proving his place in MMA with every fight.

I want the best money, and obviously the highest ceiling that you can be the best is in the UFC. But yeah, I praise Bellator. They gave me a great offer.

Obviously wrestling is a core component of MMA. And among UFC fighters, my take-down defence is considered quite high.

Getting knocked out in your underwear in the Octagon is pretty embarrassing, but people are like, 'The guy he's fighting is really, really good, and he is a UFC fighter, so he can still beat up 99 percent of the world,' so it's not that embarrassing.

The MMA world is a much better place when the Diaz brothers are fighting and thriving, isn't it?

I found wrestling when I was 11 years old. About two years later, I convinced my mom to let me rent my first UFC tape. I was fascinated by the sport.

I'm not a matchmaker; I don't run the UFC - I'm a fighter. So I'll stick to doing what I do best: training and punching people.

Who inside MMA that's a champion goes to fight Muay Thai? Nobody. But I love competing.

When I first came to Bellator, I wanted to take it back to what we accomplished at Strikeforce and look at the next generation. So we signed the Aaron Picos of the world and put them in our development programme to nurture them.

If you want to prove your worth and prove you're one of the best in the world, you need to be fighting in the UFC.

I'm always training to fight the best fighters in the world, and if the UFC wants me to fight Georges St-Pierre, then I will fight him.