Wanderlei Silva Quotes

I don't want to talk trash about somebody: I want to prove it inside the cage.

Prize-Fighting is not the aim of boxing. This noble exercise ought not to be judged by the dishonesty or the low lives of too many of its professional followers. Let it stand alone, an athletic practice, on the same footing as boating or football.

I gotta respect our sport, my division, and the guys that are fighting in it. That's what I gotta do.

In China, they treated me really well, they like me a lot. The first few times they laughed when I took my shirt off, but when they saw me throw my punches and saw my opponent on the floor, they came over to my side and clapped.

I don't like to disrespect people or my opponents. Anything can happen.

I'll fight you, and I'll have respect at the end. If you win, I have respect; if I win, I expect respect, Ray Mercer, man, I don't want to mention this guy's name anymore. He gets no respect from me. He was not professional, and he showed poor sportsmanship.

I show up to win. I don't show up to hurt a guy. I don't show up with emotion.

You train, you fight, you show respect at the end of it.

I am ready to fight according to the rules, and I ask for the opportunity to prove myself.

I always train and prepare with highest concentration and focus on my next opponent. To me, it does not matter what his name is.

I have the same malice in my heart as far as the fight game is concerned, but outside the ring, I won't say anything a dignified man won't say.

I always say it's much nicer to win by shaking a man's hand rather than slapping him in the face.

When it's your will versus another person's will, the worst thing you can do is smile in their face when you're competing. That's what I tell our guys. Go have fun.

I love fighting. I want to fight, but there are principles in this game. You've got to have morals. I'm not just going to fight fights to fight to get nowhere.

The new trend in MMA is to talk trash and curse to get a fight, but I'll never change who I am.

If I had a choice, I'd rather not fight someone from Brazil, but as a professional, I couldn't say no.

When I go into the ring, I don't hate opponents, and I certainly don't want to hurt them.

I respect Demetrious Johnson to the fullest. I wouldn't travel the world and find different training partners and coaches to help me defeat this man if I didn't want to win.

I respect all my opponents.

When it comes to fighting and other fighters, I try to be respectful.

I approach this game with the utmost respect for every player.

I always respect my team and my competitors. I never had problems with anybody.

If you ask my promoters and managers, they will say I've never knocked back an opponent in my life.

Me personally, I can take getting beat, if it's about basketball. But when it gets to the point where you're being personal, and being disrespectful as a man to another man, that's when I have a problem.

I'm always prepared for five, six rounds. I train hard. Sometimes it's over quickly, but you have to be prepared for every round, always respecting your opponent.