Top 66 Rafael dos Anjos Quotes

Nate Diaz is a tough opponent. I’ve fought him.

Ben Henderson, he had never been knocked out before fighting me.

I am surrounded by great people.

I think things will come once I get the respect that I deserve. Keeping my belt for a long time… Things will happen like normal. I can’t force those things.

We have a lot of Brazilians in the United States. It doesn’t mean we’re traitors to our country.

I breathe martial arts every day of my life.

When you’re a fighter, and you’re not doing good in your work, that happens – you lost the fight.

The future is out of my hands; it is in God’s.

If I don’t fight McGregor, I still have a good life.

The way I train, the way I spar, I’m out of my comfort zone every single day, and you can see the result in my fights.

I’m a calm-headed fighter. I do my job.

I don’t want to fight anybody that just wants to hold you and try and eat the time.

Cerrone is a great opponent. The guy won eight fights straight.

I beat Diaz, Pettis, Ben Henderson, Cerrone, and I earned it, man. I earned my title.

I think money comes and goes. What comes easy goes easy.

I just have to go out and fight my fight and fight to win.

I miss submitting people; I have a lot of confidence in my jiu-jitsu.

Everybody likes money. I like money. I need money to survive. But I don’t love money. Money is not my god.

People see me because I’m winning my fights. That’s how I want people seeing me.

I do things right. No shortcuts.

I don’t want to just be a champion, and I’m done with that. I wanna be a lightweight legend.

I get paid the same money if I’m fighting on pay-per-view or on Fight Pass, and Fight Pass is just getting started. It’s the future. The Internet, many people watch it.

My goal is to always be improving my skills.

I like my life. I like competing, but it’s not just because of the money.

I’m always looking for perfection. Even after training and my coaches say I did good, I always think I could have done more.

In the future, I want to have super-fights.

When I was 16 years old, I weighed 176 pounds.

I’m going to show the difference between the champ and second place.

It was tough to make weight against Cerrone, and I passed out three times making weight for the Eddie Alvarez fight. One day you get to the limit.

I’m the former lightweight champion. I want to fight one of the top guys. I don’t want to fight a guy who isn’t ranked.

I’m an aggressive fighter, but I’m smart. I’m not going to play stupid.

I’m the best in the world; thank you, Jesus, for that.

Ever since I was 10 years old doing jiu-jitsu, I’ve done well against the tall guys.

Cerrone, he’s a very good Muay Thai guy, very long.

I train to fight five rounds, but if we can end the fight in the first round, it’s even better.

When you put the pressure on yourself, it’s not good. If you fight afraid to lose, you wind up not fighting that good.

Power is natural, but it can be improved with a lot of work. It’s been something I’ve focused on for a couple of years because I saw it as a place where I could make improvements.

What made me move up to welterweight was all the effort I was doing, to look at my health and have a good life. I wanted to stop sacrificing so much.

I think Robbie Lawler is a good name and a fight that interests me.

Every fight and every loss taught me something.

Press conferences aren’t the best thing to do, but it’s part of the job.

I’m under contract. Whatever the UFC asks, I have to do because they are my bosses and they treat me very well. I can’t complain about that, and it’s this, man: When you have a boss, you need to follow orders.

I talk the truth. I don’t trash talk, I just talk the truth.

Brazil is on my side.

If you look at my record, I have a clean record.

A lot of people tell me I have to trash-talk more, but I got here with my fists, fighting, not with my mouth.

I’m looking to make history.

I didn’t get any crazy sponsors. I don’t have any extra sponsors since I got the belt.

I fought well at 155, but I don’t think I ever came close to my best at 155. I think I’ll get to my best at 170 pounds.

God makes everything in perfect time, and he doesn’t give you anything you can’t handle.

I’m not a trash talker. I respect my opponents.

I always trained hard in my life to win the title, and I will train twice as hard to stay at the top.

I think it’s a loser’s mentality to get happy with somebody losing.

I think between 2014 and 2015, I made weight five times in 11 months. During that time, I felt my body change. It was able to hold on to more weight. And anybody who makes weight knows that it gets harder and harder to make weight once you’ve done it that many times.

Now that I’ve achieved my goal to win the belt, I want to be the best of all times. I want to be remembered as the lightweight with most title defenses.

We have people around the world who live in the United States, and these people don’t deserve to be called traitors.

If you’re out for two years, and you beat one guy with a full-time job, without disrespect, but we’re talking about fighting for a world title. You can’t just beat a guy that went there to cover some guy that got injured, and then this guy, after two and a half years, gets a title shot.

I still have a lot to do, a lot to improve.

I don’t do fight camps anymore because I live in camp.

I like to fight, and I think the fans want to see a good fight, too.

I’m a big fan of Georges St-Pierre.

I’m the kind of guy who always pushes really hard.

You can promote fights – of course, you have to – you can say ‘I’ll beat you’ or whatever, but you cannot put family, religion, anything like that in the mix. You need to separate things. That is a line a lot of fighters cross.

I think to get a title shot, you need to have some expressive winnings.

I was tested against the best.

I came from the bottom. Now I’m the main event and UFC champion.