Top 50 Matt Serra Quotes

No matter what I think about Matt Hughes, and it’s not much, he’s a dangerous opponent.

Whenever there’s something you’ve done that everybody and their mother said you couldn’t do, and it was like an impossible feat, of course, it’s awesome.

Chris Weidman is a stud.

I don’t get caught up in the hype, the so-called experts, the Internet; they’re not in there with us.

Life is short and so am I.

I was a decent-sized kid growing up. I was never a small kid.

Georges has been running through top competition.

You never know what could happen with injuries.

I don’t need to kickbox or box every day.

I don’t watch any sports; I’m just being honest.

I never missed weight.

I’m a black belt and have been since 2000.

I’m not the type of guy to be begging for a fight.

I’m always involved with training and the martial arts. It’s not like I go to a desk job somewhere and then throw on the gloves.

I was a normal height back in the day.

The thing is, against guys like GSP or Anderson Silva, many guys are beaten before they step into the cage.

It is not overwhelming, like you are George Clooney, but at the Starbucks, at the 7-Eleven or walking around Manhattan or the Roosevelt Field Mall, I do get recognized. It’s nice.

I’m not the guy to get beat down when I shouldn’t have gotten beaten down.

Aljo has already beaten a former world champion in Renan Barao, and I thought he fought masterfully, using all these ranges beautifully. He’s like the Black Panther showing the world who he is.

What is a ‘lucky punch?’ Who do these people think I was trying to punch in the face if not Georges? Seriously – where did the luck come into it? I got him hurt and didn’t let him off the hook.

My teachers used to point to the jail across the street and say that’s where my fists would land me.

I’m old school.

I am an expert on the floor and I am dangerous in all areas, not to toot my own horn.

The thing is this, this sport you deal with a lot of guys in this sport and most of them are cool.

I’m the farthest thing from a hater if any of the former guys do the post UFC commentary shows. I would never knock anybody for doing them.

Seriously, you tell me, if you aim at something, and then hit it time and time again, was it luck or did you just do what you were trying to do?

I love hanging out with my kids, my family. That’s something you never really anticipate or understand it until you have a family.

If you talk to somebody else, they can say whatever they want about you, but I’m pretty secure with what I’ve done and my fights. Win or lose, it’s all experience, and it shapes the person you are and the instructor you are.

You can’t sit around and go ‘what if.’

When Joe Silva called me with the Trigg fight, I said, ‘Hell yeah.’ It’s a matchup that excites me a lot.

I ain’t tall, but I’m not angry. I’m not angry about not being tall. I like it. It’s like the automatic underdog all the time. So it’s awesome.

I don’t like feeling too tight. Like if you bench too much, you feel like you can’t move your arms right.

They had to cut me open through my armpit and cut through whatever they had to cut through and get my rib out.

What I pull off in sparring I should be able to pull off in a fight.

I’m confident in what I can do.

You want to push a guy up against a cage, there’s nothing like pushing a car.

I knew I wanted to learn jiu-jitsu and maybe one day I would have a challenge match or something like one of those crazy in-action things.

I felt like I lived my movie, my ‘Rocky’ movie. So that was cool.

You gotta have a thick skin to be a fighter.

We’re not bad sportsmen.

This game has such extreme highs and lows.

Ronda’s got phenomenal grappling, but the way she enters, she’s striking her way into the clinch, which is much harder to do on such a dynamic striker with all the movement Holly Holm possesses.

I beat St. Pierre, who’s a physical specimen, a better wrestler, and supposedly a better striker. People thought I was gonna get killed. But I have experience in wars with the best guys in the world. I knew at the very least he’d be in the hospital with me.

I’ve known B.J. for so long, I love the dude, he’s a really good person… The guy’s a legend. He can do whatever he wants. I wish him best.

I’m not gonna start bragging about my credentials, but I love jiu-jitsu and I’ve been on the mat awhile, and I’m a jedi and whatnot.

Don’t get me wrong, I love my family, but I love teaching and hanging out with the guys.

Dominick Cruz is the unluckiest fighter of all time. I mean the injuries that this guy’s had.

I worked night security for Estee Lauder. It was horrible. I worked from midnight till 8 in the morning. I did that just so I could sleep during the day, then go into Manhattan to train with Renzo at night. I would train, then go work all night in a guard booth.

I’m not that guy who says, please can I get a fight?

I get to help a lot of teenagers and kids that were maybe like me when they were younger. Now they have the jiujitsu so they can compete and be tough guys that way.