Derek Brunson Quotes

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 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 love fighting for the UFC. It's an amazing company. I've done a lot of great things, and they've done a lot of great things for my career.

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

I'm not going all the way; I'm going to be the best fighter that's ever fought in MMA. That's what I truly believe.

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.

Once I started fighting in UFC, things took a big U-turn. After my second fight, I came home and paid my mortgage off.

Let me be clear: MMA training is tough work, and every fighter has had to enter the Octagon with aches and pains as well as exhaustion. This is the game.

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 had my first fight at UFC 13, and it was just one of those things that become second nature to me.

Personally, most of my injuries were ones that I sustained during fights in the UFC, not in practice.

If I could have had the opportunity to be a full-time fighter while I was one of the best in the world, what could I have done then?

I want to keep active, so when they called me to fight Nate Diaz, I agreed because I wanted to stay active. I got a little surprised because he was out so long, but he's a tough opponent.

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

I feel like I'm one of the best strikers in MMA. I just need the time to prove it. You haven't really seen my full potential yet.

I'm committed to the fight game.

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

People haven't seen the wars, in UFC, that I've had in Strikeforce and what I am capable of.

Wrestlers tend to do good in MMA because they tend to be just some tough guys. It's not a karate situation where they grew up their whole life punching the air; in a wrestling situation, you grab a hold of another human being every day.

I had no easy fights ever since I joined the UFC.

Whoever has lost a fight in the UFC and hasn't wanted to fight that guy the next day shouldn't be in the sport.

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

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

When I prepare for a fight, I never expect it to be easy. I believe that that would create a chance for me to not give my best in the Octagon.