Top 45 Roy Nelson Quotes

If you can’t beat me, you need to get some new coaches or something.

We’re in this business to make money, but then nobody wants to talk about how much money we’re making. That’s serious, but nobody will talk about it.

Carwin, he seems like he trains for five one-minute rounds. That’s his championship fight, apparently.

I’d fight anyone I’ve ever lost to.

The thing is that anybody in the heavyweight division can be champion any day just because of one punch.

TV makes you look taller and fatter.

Some athletes can master two sports, but most are only good at one.

When you think what Big Country could be, I could be that guy.

We’re in a very individual sport, but they like us not to be so individual. They’d rather have you look like every other cookie cutter guy and have you believe that you’re replaceable when you’re really not.

If you’re a true MMA fan, you’re going to want to have Fight Pass the same way TV and movie fans have Netflix.

MMA has a lot of those things that you’re not allowed to talk about; like, they’re completely off-limits. So you have to make a joke out of it.

I think Lesnar could probably beat Fedor, just from pure size.

We handle it from both sides of the coin: from the sport aspect and the entertainment aspect. You gotta have both because we’re if not doing solid ratings, we’re not going to be on TV.

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

Everybody hates a whiner.

You have all that muscle on you, you’re going to get tired. That’s why I prefer to be fat.

There are athletes out there trying to get every advantage they can, including things like muscle and low-fat percentages. I feel if I’m the better fighter, I’m the better fighter.

I’m usually looking to wrestle and grapple, but I guess the knockouts just happen.

I think what it is, is that fighters have become business people. I actually love what I’m doing. When you’re a business person, sometimes you think of it as, ‘Ah, it’s work.’ I love what I do, but then, on the other end, some guys do this as a living.

A good wrestler, with good jiu jitsu and great boxing, can beat Fedor.

I’m always down to fight a legend of the sport.

Just go out there against the best fighters in the world and see where I stand. That’s what I want.

I’m always looking ahead, not backwards.

I just like to be entertaining.

To me, everything is a joke in MMA when it comes to serious topics because you can’t really talk seriously about anything in our business.

On any given day, I know on any given day I can beat anyone else and knock out anyone else out.

I go where the fans want me.

You learn from your mistakes, and you grow from them.

Anybody that was from the old Pride days is a fighter.

There’s a difference between business acquaintances and friends. I consider a friend any time we eat together at the same restaurant, or he’s eaten at my house, or I’ve eaten at his house.

When I grappled, I never even trained for a grappling match.

I think WWE is a great.

All I know is that Stipe gave me inspiration because if Stipe can be that UFC champion, and they actually gave him a title shot, then I’m like, ‘Ah, I do have a chance.’

I can always fight the best in the world.

With boxing, sometimes you’ll watch the first three rounds, then you’ll change the channel and turn it back in the 10th round. With MMA, you have to watch all 15 minutes. You’ll want to watch every second.

If you go into ‘The Ultimate Fighter’ and you’re just gonna go in there to get just one fight and win… the premise is to win the whole thing. When I went in, I wanted to win the thing or be cut.

I just remember I used to go to each tournament to make a couple bucks. I did as a living thing; I got paid to do martial arts, so I’d go to these jiu-jitsu tournaments and make, like, $1000 every time I won the tournament.

I definitely envision myself in politics at some point.

I think with every heavyweight, there’s a style that makes for a different fight with different fighters.

I am a student first, teacher second.

I only fight clean fighters. I’ll fight anybody in the UFC that’s clean. Or dirty. Or clean.

With MMA, there are so many ways the fight can go; that’s the drama. You don’t know what’s going to happen next.

Anytime I come to any organization, I have my sights on the belt.

Jiu jitsu 101: make the other guy do all the work.

You’d prefer to fight somebody that you really would rather derail their whole career.