Top 66 Andrei Arlovski Quotes

I played in couple of movies and tried to do this as good as I could. Someone liked it, the others didn’t. I was trying really hard. It’s an interesting process, but I can’t call it easy. For the professional it can be easy, but I’m not one.

I remember the feeling of being on top of the world.

My priorities are my family and my career.

I don’t just want to be in the Top 10, I want to be in the Top 2 or 3 in the world.

The bad blood between me and Tim Sylvia, it’s over, and that’s it.

First of all, my beautiful wife… she lets me do what I love to do.

No more flying knees against Fedor Emelianenko, no more getting back with my hands down like how it was against Rogers. I just can’t do that anymore.

Tim Sylvia is 6-foot-8, 265, and Fedor beat him, so that showed that size doesn’t make a big difference.

I lost my fight against Brett Rogers because… I didn’t follow my game plan.

I don’t really care what people said that Arlovski should retire.

After each fight I go home to my wife and son and I talk to them about what our family should do.

My wife understands it’s a business and I’m working for her and our son. But I never worry about it during a training camp because the focus is my opponent and only him.

From every life experience, fighting experience, I took the right lessons.

I want to be the best and I want to fight the best fighters.

Sometimes I was a little bit – not cocky, but not so nice, you know?

Maybe that’s good for somebody else to hear: ‘You’re a good fighter.’ For me, it’s horrible. I want people to say, ‘You’re a great fighter.’ I want them to look at me like I am a champion.

I like to read books and listen to music.

I know for a fact that I have to keep winning and train hard and listen to my coaches.

As a fighter, from my fighting experience a problem for me was I never too much stick with my game plan.

I don’t need to prove anybody. I don’t need to show anything. Just all I want to do is really good.

I used to think nobody can beat me, and then Tim Sylvia beat me twice.

As far as the business of MMA, it’s very important to me keep building my own career.

I spent a lot of time in a boxing gym but I concentrate on everything, wrestling, the Jiu-Jitsu and everything else.

I want Fedor to beat Sylvia.

I try to be fast on my feet.

When I have free time between fights I might do a movie, because it’s a lot of fun.

I still have, like, at age 40, I’m training more than I used to train when I was 25.

Mickey Rourke is a legendary guy. I watched him taking photos with literally everyone who came up to him. He never turned the fans down.

If I try to do something, I try to do the best, and I’m a grown man and I have my vision of life and my personal ambitions.

I don’t want to fight in UFC just because I was a champion in UFC. I’m gonna have to earn it. It’s gonna have to be how I fight.

I had a chance to work with Cain Velasquez, Mike Kyle and this was great. And I remember how Bob Cook all the time he did conditioning, yell all the time, ‘You have to do better.’ He pushed me all the time so I really appreciate him. It was a great experience for me.

When I left the UFC, it was a good business decision for me at the time, but it’s good to be back home with the promotion where I made my name. When I would fight in other organizations, people would be like, ‘Oh, the Arlovski, you are UFC fighter, right?’ And of course, that’s how everyone knows me.

In the past, the main problem for me was sticking with the game plan.

Every morning, when I wake up in camp, I remember what I want. I want to be champion of the world again.

Greg Jackson, he gave me hope you know. He told me listen, you’re absolutely not done yet. You have a lot of work to do. If you want to start everything from the beginning, just come to Albuquerque. Come to my clinic. He’s a very smart guy and he’s a very educated coach, and I enjoy working with him.

Everybody who beat me, I want a rematch.

Definitely I don’t want to be a punching bag for some other fighters who’s gonna make some name, records off of me.

What my losses made me think was that I needed to take my career more seriously and to train right.

Being the underdog, for me, is not a problem. I kind of like it. But when you were on the top, and then you’re not even in the top 10, this is horrible.

I have only white or black; I don’t want the gray. Everything or nothing.

If you want to be the best fighter, you have to fight the best fighter.

Young blood keeps you alive. It’s keep you on your tippy toes.

I am a fighter and I like to fight and I like to get paid.

I am honored to step into the ring with a great fighter like Fres Oquendo.

I’ve become smarter, more disciplined and more hungry.

I really appreciate Greg Jackson. I’m going to stick with him until I’m done fighting, and that’s it.

I have to test myself against Fedor. I have a lot of people behind me and I’ll do all that’s possible to beat him.

I’m like Nike, just do it.

Chicago is a great city and I love coming back each and every time and thinking about all the great memories I have made here.

I don’t need to prove anything to anybody.

When I was a kid, all the walls in my room were papered with posters portraying Jean-Claude Van Damme, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone. I think working with Van Damme was a great experiment. It was awesome!

Just trying to, with age, you have to decide what’s more important for you, choose what’s more important for you as a person, father, husband.

Everybody has his own destiny.

When I’m not training for a next fight I love to spend time with my friends and go to night clubs.

I choose fighting. I change all my life.

Freddie Roach is a great boxing coach.

Be smart, fight smart and stick to the game plan.

I love training hard.

When I found out I was fighting Tim Sylvia it was the best day of my life. I don’t like him, I don’t respect him and I will have no problem kicking him in the head and stomping on his body. It will be fun.

I don’t know how the crowd is going to react in my fight against ‘Bigfoot.’ I think they are going to be on his side, but a few people I know are going to be on my side, so I wanna fight for those people.

My body and my mind let me fight, let me train hard, so I’m a blessed person.

I don’t even listen or read some stuff from the Internet.

I try to show good technique – boxing technique, wrestling technique, jiu jitsu technique.

I have liked to listen to European dancing music.

If I can be heavyweight champion of boxing, I have to try. That is why I want to train myself in professional boxing.

I showed my chin was fine when I fought Tim Sylvia in the Philippines, when our fight was a no contest. He landed a good straight right hand at the end of the first round and I was fine. I survived and knocked him out.