Top 50 Bruce Buffer Quotes

Part of my job in the octagon is making sure the fighters are lined up with the referee so one of them gets their hand raised while I announce the winner.

To me it’s not about how much money you make or the car you drive, it’s about what kind of person you are and how much pride you take in what you do. I try and apply that same level of passion to every path I choose in life.

I take care of myself.

There’s always mountains to climb and I’m always open for another challenge.

Poker is a great game and feeds my need for competition a lot.

My dad was mixture of John Wayne, Steve McQueen and Errol Flynn all rolled up into one. He was a really tough guy. He taught me how to fight literally when I was four years old. He taught me street-fighting techniques.

I mean, I would love to announce with my brother, Michael Buffer. That would just be an incredible thing to do and we’d have a blast working together.

Like other guys my age, I liked Chuck Norris and Bruce Lee. Bruce Lee really was the original mixed martial artist.

Most married men are completely jealous of my existence – the way it’s designed. As far as, surrogate wife, surrogate kids.

I’ve had multiple concussions. I’ve had to stop fighting when I was 32, because according to my doctor, it was the 2nd concussion. No, it was the 2nd concussion he knew of.

I put everything I can into my announcing, and the moment I can’t perform physically, vocally, then it will be time for me to retire.

I like to go out there and be organic and improvise off the energy I feel from the crowd, whether it’s 50,000 or 20,000 or 10,000 people in the audience.

It’s hard to put a price on a life’s work.

No woman has ever professionally, to my knowledge, fought a man in a professionally commissioned, sanctioned fight. And it’s not going to happen. I mean, I’d be amazed if that ever happened. It’s not gonna happen.

We live in a decaying society of morality, which bugs me on a daily basis. I consider myself one of the last chivalrous white knights out there.

I was invited to have a private sparring session with Royce Gracie. This was 1992, a year before the first UFC. It was just me and him in a room on the mat.

I’ve always loved to dress well.

I’ve been into martial arts since I was 12. I had black belts in a style called Tang Soo Do, and also I kickboxed for a number of years.

I’m all about passion, everything I do is with a passion that is the reason why I announce the way I do.

Georges St-Pierre is one of the greatest pound-for-pound fighters in the world.

When you create a nucleus of activity and it starts gaining steam, what you want to do in business is you want to create as many streams or legs out of that nucleus as possible.

One fight I would love to see, I have always loved to see, but I doubt it will ever happen, is Georges St-Pierre and Conor go at it. I think it would be a huge mega fight.

I’ve done shows with one leg; I’ve done three shows in a row, blown-out back.

Superman walks around with an ‘S’ on his chest. I walk around with a ‘P’ on my chest, and that P stands for Passion.

There’s a boxer called Lucia Rijker, she’s vicious, and Nunes is very much like her.

I have fighting in my blood.

I always joke around and say my lifestyle is kind of like James Bond.

I eat right, I train right, I’ve been an athlete my entire life.

There’s nobody more dominant in a female fighting athlete than Ronda Rousey. I’m not going to compare her to men, although quite frankly, I’m sure she’d do very well against at least half the division that she’s in, which is the bantamweight.

To me, all business is the same it’s just the product that’s different and you can have a diamond in your hand, but if you don’t market it correctly, it just becomes another piece of coal.

You can’t announce the way I announce if you’re not into it.

My brother happens to be the greatest announcer in sports and entertainment history.

I grew up around fighting.

You know, when you do something that’s different and out of your realm, you want to pick the right time.

You’ve heard of the Wolf of Wall Street? I was like the Wolf of L.A.

Perception is reality.

A puncher’s chance means that anyone has the potential to succeed, whatever the odds or circumstances, if he or she works for it.

I read these articles where people are calling me a fashion icon, which kind of makes me laugh, but if that’s the way they perceive it that’s all good.

If I was at the final table at the World Series of Poker, that would probably be the most exciting thing I’ve ever done in my life. And believe me, the UFC, the announcing in the Octagon, is extremely exciting.

I was a motivational speaker and I’ve been in front of crowds a lot and I’m very comfortable with that.

I would walk into a room at a young age and I’d say, ‘Hi, Dad,’ and he would say, ‘SON, PROJECT YOUR VOICE. LET THEM KNOW YOU’RE IN THE ROOM. SHOULDERS BACK. CHEST OUT.’

There will never be another ‘Let’s get ready to rumble,’ so I see it as my duty to protect the phrase as I would a rare gem.

I hate to stand still and announce like everyone else… this is the UFC, the greatest event in sports and deserves the most excitement that can be generated when announcing these great main events that happen in the Octagon.

I’m not one of those people who say last year I caught a fish this big or I surfed a wave 20 feet or something. It’s a matter of what I do today. Everything else is a pleasurable memory.

When a little kid comes up to me and asks for an autograph, that’s the most amazing compliment I can even imagine.

I’m not an acrobat.

You always have to anticipate. You never know when things are going to change, so you have to be prepared.

I feed off the energy of the crowd.

My dad never told me that when he was serving in World War II he had gotten married at a young age.

I’m completely honest with everyone I deal with. I genuinely care about people. I want to see people succeed and be the best that they can be. So, I wanted to write a motivational book about life, love and the pursuit of happiness.