Top 70 Jorge Masvidal Quotes

I used to be a 55er, Conor used to be a 45er. I’m naturally a 70 pounder, Conor’s probably a natural 55er. I’m a small 70 pounder though and Conor’s a decent-sized 55er so the size is not that much. It’s not incomparable.

A fight is usually longer than five seconds.

I want to get paid for my services.

I’ve been fighting in people’s backyards my whole life.

I never think past any man, because every guy has two hands and every dude wants to hurt you.

I want to give big kudos to USADA. Can it be better? Yeah.

You guys might not know who Yves Edwards is, if you don’t, shame on you, go do some research.

That’s the biggest act of cowardice, faking injuries.

It’s taken me 26 professional fights to seek out nutritional help and I finally did and it’s made a big change in my weight as far as weight cutting goes.

I’m just not going around disrespecting people.

This is a sport of a lot of knowledge, of knowing yourself well, knowing your soul and your spirit, your abilities both physically and mentally.

When I get anxiety and depression and things like that, I take to eating.

We’re already going to fight, we’re going to test each other’s will. We don’t need everybody talking.

I was definitely done with 155, then when I heard they ended up banning IVs I was like, there’s no way I can make 55.

Nobody is taking my lunch money.

You know I could get hit with a baseball bat and it don’t mean nothing.

I just want to fight the best guys that there is in the world and make the most money out of it.

I just want to go out and compete. Plus the main thing is, at 55 I need a good amount of time to prepare just to make the weight cut. At 70 I can just take fights as they come and just compete as much as I want.

The bigger the fight, the better.

It’s a blessing and a curse. I feel like I’ve gotta fight every dude that stepped foot on ‘The Ultimate Fighter.’

I’m not a sock-em, rock-em type of guy.

I asked for the toughest, best fights to my management, to my coaches.

I’m not Ben Askren or a lot of these fighters. I’ve never called a reporter like, hey, I want to be on your show, book me, you know?

I don’t want to fight no up-and-coming guy, no guy that’s 15-0 but hasn’t faced anybody yet.

If it was… let’s say they just banned 170, that it was either 55 or 85, I’d go to 185 before I’d go to 55.

I don’t want any up-and-coming guys. I want someone that’s established already, that’s good.

Not that everybody needs to be Georges St-Pierre, but it would be cool if everybody was just themselves.

I’m not going to kill my body, my lifestyle just to go to ’55.

I came to 170 and I got motivated and finally they started giving me ranked opponents.

If you look through my career, I put an end to a lot of guys never been knocked down, never been stopped.

I’ve got more mat hours than most of the guys who are grapplers got on the mat.

Over everything, over friendships or anything, is my kids – and obviously fighting for that belt is my kids’ future. It doesn’t sound too nice, but if my mom had the belt, she better give it up because my kids gotta eat. If I’m willing to fight my mom, imagine a good friend.

I do not want to fight Woodley because we’re cool. We’ve worked out so much together, and he’s looked out for me in the past with certain hookups that he had at the time. So I don’t want to fight that dude.

My coaches know when it’s a big fight, I’m at the gym because if they give me some pretender, another actor, I might not take it.

My body of work speaks for itself.

I can box. I can hit hard. I’ve got different angles.

I’ve got a big buzz going on because I’m known and put people to sleep.

It’s simple, I’m a fighter, but on top of that I have to entertain the people.

Man, I never got to fight a ranked opponent at 155, and that wasn’t because I wasn’t winning.

I’m a real fighter.

You don’t spit on people, especially people’s corners.

I always cheer for my MMA brothers and sisters.

I thought eating Double Quarter Pounders with Big Mac sauce wasn’t that bad, but I guess it was.

I do a very strict diet.

The main reason I’m in this sport is not to run mouths and make posts on Twitter and stuff. It’s to compete.

I get along just fine with Woodley. He’s actually showed me a lot things in the past, and I’ve worked with him in the past training to help him get ready to fight. There’s no hard feelings if me and hit had to scrap.

Let me make this clear: I think USADA has moved my sport forward in certain ways that I couldn’t have imagined.

Nobody has ever wanted – they get forced to fight Yoel. Ask anybody.

If I can compete five, six times a year that would be perfect.

I’m a guy who’s in there everyday with world-class grapplers feeling that pressure.

The more I tour the world, the more I see that people are just like me. They love violence.

Back in the day, you used to have to fight three or four fights in one night with no dodging nobody, and that’s what the sport got built on.

I got taught respect because if not, somebody’s gonna make you respect them.

There’s some people who violate that man-code of the gym.

I move my head. I don’t get hit.

I’m here to compete and to keep beating people up.

I never care about my opponents, especially now – I care about ‘Gamebred’ and ‘Gamebred’ is only going for the off button.

I’m a dirty south goon – damn right, I ain’t no West coast gangster.

My body fat at 173 is five percent, so the rest is just straight water that I lose.

I’ve never pulled out of a fight.

I want to put money away in the bank.

I’m not involved in too many wars, where I’m just constantly getting hit, hit, hit.

If they’re not the toughest fights I can get, then give me a complete washup, someone that’ll be an easy payday. But I’d rather have the toughest fights I can get so I can get to the title the fastest way possible.

I want to fight the guys that are world-class beaters. That’s who I want to get in there with.

I think the sport is growing and along with it weight classes have to be added.

I’m the type of guy if you say something right now, whenever I see you, I’m going to hold you to that.

I feel like if they added a few weight classes it wouldn’t change up the dynamics of the sport. You can still have champions and it wouldn’t be like boxing. Boxing got messed up, because they’ve got so many belts, so many unifications. It’s crazy.

A lot of times I went to sleep hungry, and not because I was cutting weight for a fight.

I didn’t get a lot of questions asked earlier in my career, I guess. But I’ve always been the same guy, more or less.

I don’t go around making conversation, I just kind of stick to myself.