Roy Nelson Quotes

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

My dream has always been to be a UFC champion. It wasn't to be a main event fighter.

When I started fighting I've always thought about being a UFC champion.

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

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.

Every day I wake up and go to sleep, I'm thinking about beating Cub Swanson

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 don't know if I will take the UFC title, but I will die trying.

My next fight is always the most important fight, so regardless if I'm fighting for the title or not, I always have to go in there and give everything that I've got.

What's important is to be fighting in the UFC. It doesn't matter if it's the first or last show.

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

Oh, man - I don't have just one favorite fighter, but I draw from many different aspects of each fighter. But I will say, just going back in the history of the UFC, just kind of trying to learn from each fighter, I've been looking at Brock Lesnar, all the things he did for the UFC back in the day, and his attitude and things like that.

My goal is to be UFC champion, and my eyes are on that prize.

In the future, I want to have super-fights.

I'm in this to be the best fighter in the world, to put on entertaining shows, and to please the fans.

I've got to become 'The ultimate Ultimate Fighter.'

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.

Any fighter worth his salt wants to be the best and to be the best you have to fight the best.

Almost every single one of my fights was the fight of the night and the public was always interested in watching me compete.

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

I always look for bigger and better things, and if the UFC wants to bring in some top contenders, I'm more than welcome to welcome them in our hexagon.

A fighter is a fighter and once they're in the top five in the world, you can't say one might not be ready.

To become a world champion, to defeat Anderson Silva, to accomplish my goal in one night, it was a super surreal feeling.

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.

I really enjoy the opportunity to face another Ultimate Fighter winner because it doesn't come around that often.