Top 55 Glover Teixeira Quotes

I’m ready for anything they can put in front of me.

I used to love martial arts movies starring Bruce Lee and Jean Claude Van Damme. In one of Van Damme’s movies, he would break a pine tree. I would kick banana trees because I used to live on a farm. My father would get mad at me because I would break all of the banana trees around.

In boxing, you have the 10-second count but we don’t have it in MMA, and that’s what makes this sport better.

I don’t care who, I don’t care where. I just want to fight.

It’s a dream of mine to win the division’s belt.

I want Shogun because he’s a legend of the sport. I respect him very much. He has good style and it matches with mine. I want to fight him in Brazil.

Good conditioning helps you prepare your muscles, so I make sure I’m always strict with my conditioning.

Seven years I worked in landscaping. It was a good job, I don’t complain. I liked going out to different houses every day, traveling.

I don’t like fights that go to decision.

I was always a hard worker, and that’s why I got invited to come to America. My uncle actually said, ‘You’ve to go to America. You work like this in America, you’re gonna make a lot more money.’

I don’t put much pressure on myself, because I’m strong mentally.

Jon Jones is at the top for a long time, can’t say enough about him.

In the UFC, it’s about names. Every fight is hard, and everybody knows all the disciplines. Some might know more than others.

Gustafsson is a great fighter, real top notch, one of the best in the world.

I am Sobralia’s biggest idol now; people love and support me a lot there. There are always some people to criticize you, but that’s okay – 99.9 percent of the people there support me.

I lost my first professional fight, but came back and won fights until I fought for the world title.

I beat Ryan Bader, and that beautiful knockout got me a shot at the title. That’s the kind of thing that puts you close to the top.

I want to fight Anthony Johnson again, for sure. I want to fight Jon Jones again. I want to fight the guys that beat me, those who are at the top.

Every fight has its rough spots, and I’m always looking for improve every facet.

You look at the staff, the whole staff, from the security to the nutritionists, everybody. Everybody’s happy. They want to be there. They look like they want to be in the UFC.

I have this mentality that I have to be prepared for everything.

I’m an old school guy.

I’m a fighter. I’m a worker.

The guys I lost to always challenged the title, because they were, like, title eliminators. I lost to Alexander Gustafsson and Anthony Johnson and they fought for the belt. Then I won fights against really tough guys.

A true champion is a true champion. They go fight and win or lose, give it their all.

When I come to the United States, I came here illegally. I didn’t know I was going to be a fighter. I just thought I was going to work landscaping for, I don’t know, three, four years, then go back to Brazil and live my life.

Who doesn’t wanna be called champion and hang that belt on the wall, right?

I’m just living life, but I’m happy to still be fighting at 41. It’s something I like to do, so the more I can do this, the better.

I believe in my wrestling and I believe in my jiu-jitsu.

I’m an aggressive fighter. I put on a show for the fans every time.

I love the USADA.

We never want anything bad to happen, especially to an athlete like Jon Jones.

Guys want to make a name for themselves, they look at my age and think they will run over me. It’s not like that, though. I’m tougher than that.

I love challenges.

When I came to the United States, I saw a lot of Mike Tyson. I would stay up and watch all of the Mike Tyson fights. A friend here said, ‘You got to do Jiu-Jitsu. That’s the thing.’ I said, ‘C’mon, Jiu-Jitsu would never beat Mike Tyson.’ So, he showed me the Royce Gracie tape. I was so impressed with the thing.

I’m not one of the guys that’s going to hold back and try to win on points.

I don’t like to leave anything in the hands of the judges.

That’s the secret, hit without getting hit.

Jon Jones is the best fighter in history.

I’ll never give myself an A since I ask a lot from myself.

I want to fight for the title. I want to get the title. That’s my dream.

There are always holes in anyone’s game.

If they call me to fight Jon Jones, I’m ready to fight anyone in the UFC.

This sport is brutal. This sport is a hard sport.

A lot of fighters just go to the gym and spar or wrestle, but they forget about their conditioning. Things like that cause lots of injuries.

I train with top guys like Chuck Liddell and Lyoto Machida, I have trained with Junior dos Santos and Cain Velasquez, and nobody have ever dominated me.

I grew up in a very small town, on a farm. There was not even a TV in my house at that time. I didn’t have much connection with the outside world and couldn’t see martial arts. When I was 10 or 12, that’s when we got our first TV. We only had maybe two channels. At 16 years old, I remember watching Marco Ruas on TV.

To err is human, but to persist in the mistake is ugly.

I just want to prove to myself and to the fans that I deserve to be in the UFC.

I’m like those gladiators from the past.

Some people spar five days a week.

I’m not greedy – I have a pretty good life. I don’t have an expensive lifestyle, so I can make my living teaching classes at my gym.

I tell people for a long time, there are always other options in life. We have to do what we want.

To be honest, I’m not the kind of guy to think about the future in the long term.

Without a doubt Jon Jones is one of the greatest fighters in history, and, of course, we do see errors that we’ll try to exploit.