MMA Fight Quotes

Fighting Anderson Silva was a signature and career-defining moment that was stolen from me.

My first MMA fight was July 2006 here in Brazil. I won a few fights here in Brazil, and then I got a chance to fight in the UFC, but they put me against the number one contender for the title at that time. It was Fabricio Werdum.

The controversy was that Chad Dawson thought he was in an MMA fight and not a boxing match.

If I want to fight for a 155-pound title - if I hold the 145-pound title - give me the fight.

When I watched the first fight between Woodley and Thompson, and I want to make clear that I really admire both guys, for me the fight was really boring at UFC 205 because nobody pulled the trigger for three rounds. The fourth round there was a scramble and that was really exciting, but then the fifth round was so-so again.

I'm just throwing a name out there, but I think Nate Diaz and myself could actually put on a good show.

Just to clear the record ive never turn down a mma fight against anyone and never will.

I fought Dan Henderson in 2009, and I lost, and that was at UFC 100 - UFC 100 was the biggest pay-per-view the company's ever done. 1.6 million pay-per-view buys, watched all over the world, and of course, I get knocked out cold after talking lots of smack leading up to the fight. So I got my just desserts in that one.

I want to fight Khabib. I think I'm one of the biggest threats to his title.

I finished Edson Barboza in a d'arce choke. What else do you want? He's very hard to take down. Spinning heel kicks, spinning kicks. I took some of his most powerful shots and I just kept coming forward. I'm the Boogeyman out there.

Nobody expected me to finish Cub Swanson the way I did. When you see something like that, even I say, 'You're finally here. You're not only hanging with the best of the best, you're finishing them.'

I wanna watch Cub Swanson against Aldo.

I still feel there is a trilogy between Henry Cejudo and Demetrious, and I see that playing out in the future.

I tried to do the impossible on paper -- beat the middleweight champ coming up from 130 pounds.

When I won my first MMA fight, I put myself out there for the world to see me.

I did what Jon 'Bones' Jones couldn't do, and that was finish Bader in a minute and fifty-six seconds.

Not since 2011, when I stepped into the cage and fought Eddie Alvarez for the first time and was the extreme underdog - I've never quite had that feeling of a 10 since then.

I like to have Ric Flair in the ring one more time in the MMA or the UFC. I'd like to beat the hell out of him.

Israel Adesanya will not be Eugene Bareman's final UFC champion.

I rested only two days after my loss to Jim Miller.

Obviously I'd love to see Demetrious Johnson, you know, 'Demetrious Johnson $500,000 payout baby,' absolutely.