Matt Riddle Quotes

What it really comes down to is that I believe I'm the best pound-for-pound fighter in the world, and to do that, I need to beat the best.

Jon Jones is a great champion, but me in my prime, I was devastating. I was vicious. Nobody could stop me. Of course I could beat him in my prime.

I got a short - I got a temper. I fight in a cage for a living. There's a reason people like us are wired slightly different.

I think I bring a different flavor to the game, both inside and outside the Octagon.

Eddie Alvarez, man, he's a tough guy.

It's unbelievable how good Jon Jones really is. It's the minute he steps out of the octagon, you never know what's going to happen.

I like to step into the Octagon and just show what I'm made of.

Brock Lesnar is a big challenge for me because he's a big guy: very, very strong, very, very powerful, very, very fast. I like the challenge. Brock Lesnar, for me, would be a very good fight.

I put myself in a position where I made wrestling an option for me. I don't have to wrestle. I don't have to take another shot for the rest of my life if I don't want to. I have good enough hands, good enough boxing, good enough timing to strike with anybody in our division.

I'm just a normal guy and blue-collar historian, and people keep tuning in.

The first time I crawled into the octagon, I just felt like an animal, you know? Like a creature, like I wasn't quite human.

At some point, if the UFC allows me, I'd like to go to 125 because I know I can win that belt, man. I'm too strong, and I'm too fast.

When you're going in there with Brock Lesnar, you can't have anything else on your mind.

Some people are born for a certain thing. And for me, unfortunately, I wish it was something a bit more artistic or whatever, but I was a born fighter. That's what kept me coming back. It makes me feel alive. And, I just know, there is nothing I do better in this world than fight.

I'd like to think I'm a hybrid to where, if you had to pick, where would you say I'm weak? I can outwrestle guys; I can outgrapple guys. I can put your lights out, and I have a gas tank for days. I can do it all.

I know of Conor McGregor. This sport has evolved even from when I first entered the octagon. I think people are finding out that you have to talk the talk, and you have to - more importantly, you have to walk the walk.

Brandon Girtz is a tough man who can really throw the leather, but I'm on a different level.

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.

I feel like MMA athletes are the best athletes in the world.

The people who know me, the fans who've watched my fights, they know what I'm about. They know that I'm going to give 100 percent of everything I have each and every time I get into the octagon.

You see me. What you see is what you get. You get real martial arts, you get real fighting, you get a real warrior mentality. Some people aren't mature enough to handle it.

I would love to fight Brock Lesnar. He's a massive dude.

When you think about mixed martial arts, you have to think about the entire scope of the athlete.

It has been my experience that the greatest performers in the genre of sports-entertainment are usually natural extensions of their own, true personality.

I have faith in my wrestling, faith in my grappling, and faith in my striking.