Top 70 Quinton Jackson Quotes

In Bellator, they don’t attack you for your sponsors. They get you sponsors. They don’t get mad at you for doing movies. They get you movies.

I don’t care, I’ll fight a guy bigger than me.

I love Rampage fans. I don’t love all MMA fans, but I love Rampage fans. And I really want my fans to know that. I think my fans know when they come in contact with me.

If you really step back and think about it, I made ‘Rampage’ one of the most marketable guys in MMA.

In America, you’ve got a lot of fair-weather fans, who be cheering for you hard and as soon as you lose a fight, you’re a bum and then they come at you on social media and they give you a lot of slack.

I noticed when I started wrestling that I was a defensive wrestler and that people make mistakes.

When the going gets tough, the leeches are nowhere to be found, but the real people – the real friends – are with you through thick and thin.

If I do a reality show, it’ll have to be a real reality show. I can’t do a scripted reality show.

I have this creative mind where I can create a lot of different things, but a lot of people never really gave me the chance and opportunity to do that because when they see me, they just see this dumb fighter that fights in the cage and howls like a wolf and knocks people out.

I need to be a promoter, man. I need to start a promotion. If I was a promoter, man, I would be the best matchmaker. I would be putting on the most exciting fights.

A lot of fighters are cocky.

I don’t want to have to go out there and fight and be laying on my back the whole fight and have like a boring fight and the fans booing and stuff. I don’t know why promoters love fights like that. I don’t understand it.

I’m not a Chael Sonnen fan.

I used to want to be a pro wrestler first, a stuntman if I couldn’t do that, and a fireman to fall back on. The guy who used to live across the street from me was the fire chief, so he was going to help me out if I didn’t succeed at the other things.

When you’re in the public eye and do interviews, your words get twisted and people put you in a negative light.

Victory means I knocked someone out, that I got paid, and that I’ll be able to get it to my kids.

Me, I want the ‘W,’ but I want to do it excitingly.

I never want to be in the UFC Hall of Fame.

Quinton and Rampage are not the same person. Quinton is kind of scruffy. The Rampage is the toughest dude you’ll ever want to meet.

I’m sick of fighting all these damn wrestlers.

I’ve always been a defensive wrestler, but when I go in there in the fights, I get so caught up in trying to knock people’s heads off that wrestling goes out the window when you’re throwing punches and kicks and stuff.

No matter how much money you make, you still have to look in the mirror.

I want to avoid every punch you throw at me, but I’m not scared to get hit. But I’m not just going to let everybody hit me.

I don’t really like to watch myself on TV.

The UFC’s a great company; they’re doing great things for the sport. I just don’t feel like they’re doing great things for me.

I lost my fight to Jon Jones because Jon Jones is a better fighter.

I do MMA, but I feel like a pro wrestler at heart. That’s why I fight the way I fight in MMA. That’s why I slam people and stuff around.

I know why I lost my fight to Ryan Bader. Because I was injured. I needed surgery but I didn’t want to back out because I was fighting in Japan.

I was delirious, and I turned to the Bible, and in my mind, I thought I was a god. I thought, you know, I’m son of God, so my father’s God, so I’m a god, too.

I’d like to fight Bisping because of some personal stuff.

The thing about Rampage is, Rampage always comes to excite the fans. I love the fans.

When I used to fight in Japan, I was popular there and people asked me for pictures and it was nice, and when I came home no one knew who I was. That was the perfect life.

Vancouver strikes me as a San Francisco-kind of place.

I started kinda late with wrestling in high school, and I wasn’t doing so well – I lost my first five matches in a row, and my little brother said ‘wear this chain for good luck… ‘ and told me it might intimidate some of my opponents. Sure enough, when I wore the chain I went all the way to the regional finals.

I was the last PRIDE champion.

I don’t really want to fight the real big boys, because I noticed that I tried to pick Ishii up at the end of the fight, I was trying to go for a slam and I was like, ‘This dude is too big.’

I like to be private. In my job, it’s just hard to be private.

If the fans want to enjoy watching me fight, enjoy me with my love for fighting, it’s fine. But if they don’t, it don’t cross my mind. If the fans still love me, I can put on good shows for them.

Take Wanderlei Silva, everybody knows we don’t like each other, but if he’s fighting I’m going to watch because he’s a very exciting fighter. I’m a Wanderlei Silva fan, but Sonnen, I don’t know why people watch him. They probably watch him to hear his interview after his fight.

I don’t want to have to wear the same outfit that the other fighters wear. I don’t want to blend in.

Not many fighters respect Chael Sonnen because he’s in the wrong sport. He should be in pro-wrestling with a mouth like that.

If a fan is cool, I’m cool with him. A fan could turn into a friend. But some people act super weird, and they make it uncomfortable for you.

I’ve got much respect for everybody but Bisping.

Fans turn on me whenever I lose a fight.

I remember back in the days when Pride was the biggest show, but the UFC has surpassed them.

Acting is kind of gay. It makes you soft. You got all these people combing your hair and putting a coat over your shoulders when you’re cold. I don’t want a coat over my shoulders!

I like it over in Bellator. I like the energy. I like it.

UFC took the love of MMA out me.

Honestly, if I gave my thoughts on the match-making in the UFC, Joe Silva probably wouldn’t even talk to me anymore, so I’m going to keep quiet on that.

A lot of times you do interviews and people twist your words. TMZ said something like I hate my male fans. I never said that, I said I wish I had more female fans, never said I hate male fans.

I wouldn’t mind going back to Japan and fight. That’s what my heart really wants to do.

Fighters are my comrades. There are a lot of them with great personalities, they’re great fighters, and they should be lifted up a little bit more. I just wish MMA would do that.

I’m a true fighter. I’ll fight anybody.

I would never sign a deal where I had to fight Fedor unless I was being paid like $10 million.

You don’t want fans to walk away saying, ‘Man, that main event sucked.’

I’m more than just a fighter, I’m an entertainer, I like to entertain people.

I’m kind of lazy.

I try to knock people out and try to make an exciting fight.

I like to see my hand raised at the end of the night. I like when the ref raises my hand. That’s why I shave my armpits like the professionals wrestlers. I like to see my arm raised.

A lot of top fighters, what do they do after they retire from fighting? They’re real popular. Like Tito Ortiz. They’ve got so much momentum, they’re so popular and then they fall off the face of the Earth. They should take acting lessons. They should keep their fans.

I was supposed to do ‘Transporter 2,’ ‘Wolverine.’ But I couldn’t do it because UFC was in the way.

I don’t want to look like all the other fighters. I’ve been proud to not be or act or look like any other fighters.

I like to figure out the fight like a puzzle when I’m in the fight.

I’m not a pro wrestler. I don’t have what I’m supposed to say written for me.

If promoters figure out a way to keep the fighters happy then those fighters will tell other fighters and that promotion will win.

Fedor is one of the most gentlest giants you ever want to meet. I’ve got the utmost respect for him.

I’ve fought a couple different places in the world. I love America, I’m American, but I have to say that American fans are the worst. I have to say it. They can get mad at me. I said it, and it’s something they can work on.

I think the fighters, we deserve certain respect, because we put our bodies and health on the line to entertain people.

I fought some guy who looked like Steven Seagal, some aikido guy or something. The fight’s not even on my record, I don’t remember his name. My dad was there at the fight and he said he blinked and he missed the fight, so I think I finished him fast or something. I forgot all about that fight.

Even though we don’t speak the same language, we’re friends. I still make him laugh. You know it’s hard to make Fedor laugh, he don’t change his facial expressions at all. I don’t even know if he understands what I be saying, but when he gets around me, he be smiling.