Top 55 Dana White Quotes

I’m not a political guy at all, not even a little bit.

Listen, I’ve been wrong before, and I’ll be wrong again.

When there’s millions of dollars at stake, everybody is going to look for an advantage.

Anything can be changed. Anything can be fixed. Things that are broken can be fixed. And you don’t have to be some billionaire or millionaire to do it. You just have to be a person with a vision and the passion to do it, and be willing to fight for it every day.

As an American, you can do whatever you want to do, and you can choose whatever side you want to be on.

Listen, everybody thinks I’m a Republican, but I’m not a Republican.

We put on fights between the best fighters; we don’t put on freak shows.

I love to win.

You can’t force fighters to fight.

People try to compete with the UFC but we’re the best at what we do.

Conor McGregor has that fight anybody, anywhere attitude but doesn’t just have the attitude, he lives it.

I never have the plan to overtake boxing. I love boxing; I came from boxing.

This country has been very good to us, every time we have a fight in the UFC it’s incredible here in Australia and we want to go everywhere. We want to travel everywhere and continue to do fights all over the country.

I’m a loyal person, man, and people who have been good to me in my life, I don’t forget and I stand by them.

The UFC brand is going to be here for a long time.

Everyone has jitters in their first fight.

Ever since I’ve been on Twitter, my number of followers has kept going up and up.

I live a pretty crazy lifestyle.

The thing where I’ve always been lucky is, I knew exactly what I wanted to do.

I hate Showtime, I can’t stand those guys.

As far as women fighting in MMA, I don’t like it when the division isn’t deep. I don’t like to see a woman who’s so much better than everybody else smashing other women. That’s tough to watch.

Chuck Liddell loves to fight. That’s his passion. That’s what he loves in life. But there comes a day and age – fighting is a young man’s game.

We’re all entitled to make mistakes. I’m not one of these guys where if you make a mistake, I’m gonna try to tear your life down and burn it to the ground.

There’s a little bit of me that’s Republican, and there’s a little bit of me that’s Democratic. I believe in taking care of people that don’t have, I believe in taking care of the planet, you know, all that type of stuff.

One of my big philosophies is that fighting is the sport that crosses all borders. I don’t care what color you are, what country you come from or what language you speak, fighting is in our DNA. We get it and we like it.

It’s not like I’m going to go out and change the world and convert everyone into MMA fans. There’s going to be fans out there who are fans of combat sports and fans of contact sports but not everybody’s going to be converted.

If you get into something that you’re passionate about, and if you really believe in it, you gotta get up every day and fight.

The reality is this: Fighting isn’t a team sport; it’s an individual’s sport.

As long as we have enough fighters and fight cards to keep everybody fighting three times a year, that’s where I want our roster to be.

Look, people have been filming fights since the beginning of time.

The thing about Twitter is it goes directly to your phone like I sent you a text. It’s so powerful, it’s unbelievable.

There will never be a fighters’ union. Ever.

I don’t dislike Matt Lindland. I didn’t blackball him from the UFC, either. Matt Lindland is a good guy and I’ve never had a personal issue with him.

We want to build this sport all over the world and it absolutely, positively works in the U.K.

Everything that ever happened to me in my career, Trump was the first guy to pick up the phone and reach out to me.

We’re going to continue to go into markets that we’ve never been in, continue to grow the sport, continue to cultivate talent and the whole landscape of television is changing and I feel like we’re ahead of the curve on that, too.

One thing I can’t prove, but I firmly believe is that two men were put on this earth – one threw a punch and a third guy came over and watched. And that happened before anybody ever threw or kicked a ball.

You always think as an organization, obviously if you’re in sports, you want to be with ESPN. ESPN is it. But you don’t really realize how good ESPN is and how big their platform really is until you’re in it.

Since the beginning of time people have said mean things to each other in a fight, no matter what.

I’m a weirdo.

Whether boxing is fixable or not remains to be seen. I’m going to give it a shot.

I have the vision for where the sport is gonna go and what we’re gonna do and the different types of fights.

Whoever you are, this is America. You can believe or do whatever you want.

I saw ‘Boogie Nights’ more times before the movie came out than any other movie I had ever seen.

I’m a firm believer in… just because these guys are professional athletes or whatever, everybody’s going to have an opinion on something, and not everybody’s going to get along. I’ve had my words with fans on Twitter too.

I treat people and I deal with my fighters and I deal with the fans like a real person. I don’t come out and read canned statements written by our lawyers.

If somebody doesn’t want to show up for a press conference I’ll pull them from the card.

Any new thing that comes out with the ability to enhance our show or my ability to communicate with fans and give people more behind-the-scenes access, you know we’ll be all over it.

I think Cormier’s one of the greatest to ever do it. Two-time, two-division world champion.

The absolute worst part of my job is having to cut people. I have to cut people after every show, that’s just how it goes. But I don’t judge you on wins and losses. What I do care about is a great fight.

I was a bellman – a great hotel, five-star hotel in Boston. I made great money. I made cash every day. I had good benefits. We had 401k. All the things you could ask for in a great job, I had. You know what I didn’t have? I hated my job.

Really, the way to learn jiu-jitsu is to do it. If you do jiu-jitsu you get it and you learn it.

Different people respond differently to head trauma than others.

I’d rather have too many good guys than not enough. It’s a nice problem. They sort themselves out because when guys fight each other, they determine who deserves the title shot, not me.

Let me tell you what, reality is better than any script you could ever write.