Top 45 Stipe Miocic Quotes

I’m from Cleveland. I love this place. I’m never going to leave.

I’m never going to change who I am for the UFC.

DC is good all round. He pushes the pace, makes you think what you’re doing, makes you uncomfortable.

MMA was like wrestling; I love competition.

I’ve got power. I don’t throw hard every time. I just throw shots.

Music-wise, I like anything with a beat to it. With walkout songs, I pick something to keep me going and to rile me up.

When I become champion, you know, I’ll never stop being a firefighter.

I’ve done things that weren’t good, you know, but I made up for my mistakes.

Everyone has 4 ounce gloves on, and they’re big boys, and they can throw hard.

Someone sent me a picture of Werdum on the ground after I hit him… There was 2:16 left, and the area code for Cleveland is 216. They played ‘Believeland’ that night, and the next day it snowed, and everyone said Hell froze over because the curse was broken.

You can look at it and say I’m doing this better or that better, but the bottom line is, I just learned to be mentally tougher.

When I do become the champion, I’ll still be a fire fighter.

Listen man, Andrei Arlovski is a tough guy, but he hasn’t fought the caliber of opponents I’ve been fighting.

Cleveland people are crazy; that’s why I live here.

Whoever they want me to fight, I’m going to fight. So I really don’t care.

Honestly, I don’t talk; I just like to fight. I’m not a good talker.

One guy might be ranked higher, but it doesn’t mean anything. Where these fights go, lots of things can happen.

Werdum’s the champ for a reason. He’s good at jiu jitsu; like he says, he’s gotten better on his feet.

During a night shift, I’ll work out twice during the day. If I have to work during the day, I usually have guys at the station who will work out with me. Then at night, I’ll go train.

I like being the underdog. I like turning around and shutting people up when they tell me I can’t.

I like helping people.

I understand it’s promotion, but no one ever gave me a chance. No one ever thought I’d be the champ, and look where I’m at now.

It’s up to the UFC. Whoever they put in front of me, I’ll fight.

I traded my 2002 Silverado in for the Trailblazer, and after my second fight, I got a win bonus. It was the knockout-of-the-night bonus, $50,000, and I paid the rest of my car off, and I gave it to my mother because I had a sponsorship with a Chevy dealership.

It’s amazing to come here. I’m so happy that UFC is finally here. We’ve been starving for it in Cleveland.

When you train as hard as we do, bad things happen sometimes. It’s just part of the sport.

I love watching ‘Orange Is the New Black,’ and I play video games, like ‘Call of Duty.’

I love what I do, both aspects – fighting and being a firefighter and paramedic.

I’ve wrestled my whole life, and when I got done with college, I went back to school to become a firefighter. I liked MMA, but I didn’t really know if I wanted to get punched in the face!

I told you I’m the best in the world.

Saving people, helping people, is just something I always wanted to do.

I fell for my own hype. I had too many people saying I couldn’t be beat, and I actually fell for it.

I like winning, and I worked too hard to get where am at now. I’m not giving it up.

I am always going to be the same guy. The fireman that lives in Cleveland.

The sport wouldn’t be what it is without the fans, and at UFC 189, watching the Irish fans screaming ‘Ole Ole Ole’ was pretty amazing.

I’ve fought the best guys in the world, and I’ve beat the best guys in the world.

I’m going to be the champion for a long time.

I love baseball and love the Indians and all the teams here.

I wouldn’t want my corner throwing in the towel no matter what. I wouldn’t want my corner to do that.

Cleveland, we’ve got a champion, baby!

Anthony ‘Rumble’ Johnson hits hard. You gotta watch out for him. He’s got hammers as fists.

I’m the best in the division. I know I am.

Listen, I’m the champ, and I’m not going to pick and choose who I fight.

Junior Dos Santos is one of the best heavyweight fighters of all time, and he has proven it by being a champion. That is something that I want to be in my career, and I understand to achieve that, I have to beat guys like him.

I love Cleveland; I’ll always want to fight there. But there’s a lot going on in New York. I’d like to go somewhere I’m not known as well.