Roy Nelson Quotes

I want to fight a UFC fighter.

I'm always watching every featherweight that fights in the UFC because we can eventually fight in the future.

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.

When people first started watching UFC, it seemed like a no-holds barred event... early on it looked like all the fighters were crazy. Actually, there are a lot of techniques, and the reality shows have let people see the fighters behind the scenes.

Even in my first year in the UFC I fought five times in the year.

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

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

I've been fighting professionally since I was 18, and I've been doing three or four fights a year, just doing camp after camp.

I haven't fought for a while and didn't want a warm-up fight. I wanted to jump right back in the pit and I got what I asked for. I got Anthony Pettis.

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.

For me, I've been a part of a super-team in Team Alpha Male for so much of my career.

Whatever UFC wants to do or any opponent they want to give me, I'll be ready for that.

I like Glover Teixeira; he's a former training partner.

I didn't really have intentions of fighting in MMA; it just kind of fell into place. Once I started fighting, though, I loved it, and I walked away from kickboxing right away.

I've been training for Ronda Rousey since my first fight in the UFC.

I started doing martial arts since I was 12, and then I went into wrestling in college. After I met John Hackleman, I started getting really serious about it, and after a few amateur fights, I got an invite to the UFC and have been in love with it ever since.

I was satisfied with having a couple of fights a year, to enjoy them and have them be part of my training routine. When the UFC came around, it seemed like it fell in my lap. It was like I got so good at my hobby, and now I'm living all these people's dreams who had been working for so many years.

Kids wake up in the morning and say, 'I want to be a UFC fighter one day,' just like they do in baseball.

All I can do is make sure Demetrious Johnson does the best he can on fight night and goes out and wins his fights.

I saw my first UFC fight when I was 15 and figured, 'This is what I want to do when I grow up.'

How I fight is what got me into the UFC in the first place.

There was a lot of pride, being one of the elite fighters in the world, in the best promotion in the world. That's what I was proud of. To be called a UFC fighter, that was important.

It was weird, I saw the Brian Stann vs. Wanderlei fight, I thought, if I don't have another of those in me, there's no point in continuing. I never really cared about winning or losing, then don't put the product out there at all if it's going to be subpar.

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.

I've been a heavyweight in boxing, in kickboxing. I'll do it in again in MMA.