Gegard Mousasi Quotes

The UFC thinks they run off their brand, but that's not true. The UFC runs off the fighters, so hopefully, these fighters take notice and how I'm going about my business.

It's a good thing I have another job because the UFC doesn't pay very well.

I think the healthier Bellator can be, the better it is for the entire sport, especially the athletes who - let's face it - need to be paid more. They need the opportunity to negotiate and have an option. Bellator definitely presents that.

The UFC isn't this whole glamor everybody thinks. They don't pay you right.

I'm just asking for a fair shake. You see a lot of these guys, a lot of these other champions making what they're making. I'm not trying to take anything away from them, but I feel like I'm one of the more exciting fighters under contract in the UFC.

Look at guys like Demetrious Johnson, who's the pound-for-pound best fighter in the world. Why isn't he on the largest pay scale? Why are there people that aren't even champions making more money?

I feel for the guys in UFC who helped open the UFC up. Obviously, I'm getting blackballed there by the UFC, so I'm kind of feeling on both sides. If a promotion or somebody in that promotion decides they don't like an individual, then they get to make up the rules, and the fans don't get a say in it at all.

Even when you're on top in the UFC, you only get paid a couple times a year.

We should be helping people who actually need it, people working hard while their paychecks aren't increasing as much as they should.

I know the UFC's a big organization, the best athletes and fighters are here, so... every third or fourth month, I'm ready to fight.

I was the poorest kid in my school, poorest kid in my town, poorest family. That stayed with me forever.

That's what it's all about in MMA, we're not the highest paid athletes in the world, so when you can get the big money fights you have to take them.

I'm not going to go fight the best guys in the world without getting championship fights or championship money; it makes no sense.

I didn't get paid enough money really to live properly, sleeping on people's sofas and stuff, but that was the moment when I thought, 'I just wanna play football professionally; whether I get paid 10 euros or 10,000 euros, I just wanna play.'

I wasn't born into money, and you never know when that money's going to stop coming in.

Anybody who lives in Colombia knows that if you don't have any money - I tell you what - you don't have many options.

The UFC has a great plan for us. I'm just happy I'm employed by them and can pay my house bills and everything.

I make, like, three or four times more when I don't fight than when I do fight. And, I'm one of the higher-paid guys in the UFC, which is remarkably tragic and pathetic.

I made more from sponsorship than I did from fighting. I did that for the longest time.

At the end of the day, does the UFC really like its fighters?

I feel like we bring in a lot of money to the universities. We put in a lot of work. Some guys don't have enough money to bring their families to the games... so I feel like athletes should be compensated for it.

I feel like money is an interesting thing when you don't come from it.

Work does have some value and some dignity, but I don't think working 14 hours and not being able to pay your bills, or working two jobs and not being able - there's nothing inherently dignified about that.

A lot of people in MMA do part-time jobs.

Maybe UFC and Bellator should take care of the fighters when their careers are done, as the NFL takes care of their players. Because they're making so much money off us.