Top 66 Fabricio Werdum Quotes

I like the idea of fighting maybe four times a year. PFL give the opportunity for this.

I love fighting.

Confidence comes with training. When you train well, you get confident.

I respect Fedor a lot, he’s an example in our world. I would give him this rematch, for sure.

Brazil, like Mexico, has some of the best fighters. There’s quantity and quality.

I never entered a fight overconfident.

UFC gave me a lot of things, and I gave a lot to the UFC. We had a good relationship. Sometimes we had a little bit of problems, but not very important.

I want to show for everyone that I am the best in the world.

I’m fluent in Spanish, so I can do a character that speaks Spanish.

I want to be remembered just as Fabricio Werdum, just the way I’ve always been.

I don’t have anything against homosexuals, but ‘Cigano’ needs to get out of the closet.

I want to be different from other people.

I talked about a rematch with Velasquez in respect. He was a great champion and did a lot for the sport, so I was being respectful.

I’ll fight anybody. Fedor or anyone.

Ray Sefo has a lot of respect. You know why? Cause he was a fighter before. He is my friend. I like him and I like the respect, the honor that the guys have in the PFL.

I want to bring the PFL to Brazil. I want it to be famous in Brazil. This is my big goal. Not just fight but I want to help the PFL grow up.

I love my country.

I want to fight Fedor, a lot. I respect him a lot, and I want to give him the chance to fight me again.

I just like to fight.

I’ve been all over the world, man.

I have a lot of options to sign when I left UFC, when I go a different way. The PFL called me, the season is amazing, four fights in a short time is good, too. One million dollars and a good contract.

I am able to put on ‘Fight of the Night.’

Fans love McGregor, but 11 out of 10 fighters will say they don’t like him because he respects nobody. I’d be 100 percent on his side if he respected others, but he only cares about himself.

I like Fedor. I like him because Fedor never talk too much before the fight, has a lot of respect for fighters. I like Fedor.

I don’t know where, but for sure I want to fight Fedor because I respect him, and in my mind, he’s the best in the world.

All the time I have a small injury or a bigger injury.

I’m confident in Kings MMA.

I watch Mark Hunt fight for a long time, since his K-1 days. He’s a nice guy. He tries to knock you out all the time. That’s his style.

Rafael Cordeiro changed me as a fighter, you can notice that.

If you lose your last fight in the UFC, people don’t want to give you the good money. They don’t.

I’ve done a lot for the sport. Those wins over Fedor, ‘Minotauro’ and Velasquez will forever be in the history of the sport.

The first time I go to the TV for commentary I no like it because I have a fight coming up and I didn’t wanna do that, but now I love this.

My game matches with Velasquez’s. I won’t be afraid to kick or punch him to avoid the takedowns because the ground game is my best weapon.

This is my life, I love this, I love it when I go inside the Octagon.

Conor McGregor started well with his marketing, he talks a lot and is a great fighter, we can’t deny that, but I think he crossed the line.

I don’t want to be able to just lose the title and then decide I’m going to retire. I want to be able to keep working hard and giving it my all.

Money is important, of course, but that’s not everything in your life.

I like fighting in Las Vegas.

For sure when I fought Fedor in 2010, it was an amazing fight.

When I fought against Fedor, no one picked me. But then afterwards, they ask ‘Who is Fabricio Werdum?’

It’s ugly when a fighter changes the way he is and tries to be like somebody else.

The heavyweight division is dangerous because one punch can end everything.

Fighters don’t like Conor McGregor.

I like television a lot, I’m not an embarrassed guy when a camera appears, I’m very natural and I really like it.

If the champion can’t fight because of an injury, it’s not my fault. It happens in this sport. It’s normal.

Ray Sefo was a fighter and now he’s a promoter and this is good. Ray Sefo knows two sides, this is amazing.

I always wanted to enter the UFC, and they gave me that opportunity twice.

All the time I am the underdog.

My training is very important.

Fighters have a code, a law, and you have to respect everybody.

I never saw someone say they want to win by decision.

I want to beat the best in the world.

When you train everyday with a guy like Rafael, you feel a different energy. It is like you need to show him that you are evolving. Some coaches impose respect. Cordeiro earns your respect and admiration.

It happened with me in the past that I was not well trained for a reason, like an injury, and I started talking a lot to fool myself, to show everyone that I’m fine, but I was not.

Sometimes you have a fight with your wife, I have a fight with your friend, is normal life. And sometimes you have a fight in your job, too. But it’s not very important, little fights.

I’ve lived for two years in Croatia, one year in Japan, Brazil, Spain, and all those different countries.

What motivated me to sign with the PFL was precisely the grand prix format, which gives you this great prize. One million dollars, that gets any person’s or any athlete’s attention.

I don’t like the trash talking too much. When my opponents say something, for sure I respond, I say something, too. I don’t start the trash talk.

I want to rematch ‘Cigano’ in Brazil, at the Arena do Gremio in Porto Alegre. It would be a dream come true. Fighting in my hometown, where I was born and raised.

I love Nogueira. I fought with him two times in Japan in PRIDE.

I care about where I’m fighting, not who I’m fighting.

I love the UFC, and I want to say thank you for many things. And, for sure, I’ve had problems, too.

Ray Sefo is a former K-1 guy that I’ve always respected. He knows how to take care of athletes.

I don’t like Overeem very much. Not because of the fact that we fought, but I think he’s too cocky. But he’s a good fighter, a strong guy, a good striker. I respect him for everything he has done in MMA and K-1.

Cris Cyborg is the best fighter in the world.

I always look at the bright side.