Jimi Manuwa Quotes

Go back and watch my old footage, man. Go back and watch my old fights. I knocked people out at 170 pounds.

Ben Askren had never been knocked out when I got a hold of him.

People always want to see who's the best fighter in the world.

I think the match up is one of the century and I have what it takes to take Cyborg down, if anyone does.

I love the UFC. I love it. If they had had that back when I was coming up, in 1966, it would have been my sport. Man, I love it. And you know what? Nobody would have pulled the rope-a-dope on me.

Sure the fight was fixed. I fixed it with a right hand.

I've had 117 fights and that's the first time I've ever won.

There have been many great fighters like Jake LaMotta, Roberto Duran, and Ricky Hatton. Hatton was a great inside fighter.

I notice that I'm full of myself, and I am arrogant to some degree, but it's honestly only when it comes to talking about MMA.

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

Finishing a guy like Benson Henderson, who hasn't been finished since for six years, the guy doesn't get finished and I finished it with a switch-step switch to Southpaw, knocked him out with my left hand.

I've got more skills in my pinky finger than half the damn guys in the UFC.

Dana White, bring me someone that can beat me. You can't find no one that can beat me.

I've seen so many fighters getting knocked out.

The fans want to see a conclusive finish. It's quite a brutal, barbaric sport and the people who watch it want to see someone out. That's what I do for a living.

The greatest thing about fighting a guy like Dave Rickels: He always comes to fight.

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.

Getting in the cage, it's not like I need a whole mental preparation for it. It's just a fight.

Now I am training with sparring partners who are nice people, sure, but not my friends. These are sparring partners who want to knock me out in sparring. In the Croatian media, they said it was 'life and death' sparring - it was not quite life and death, but it was all-out fighting, very hard.

I'd fight any of the top guys.

Ground and pound is my thing, everyone knows that.

I want to fight the top champions, I want to fight for titles.

Nate Diaz is a tough opponent. I've fought him.

I respect Conor McGregor's style.

I thought I was ready for a title shot after I beat Shogun.