Top 70 Wanderlei Silva Quotes

I won’t fight just to fight, I’m fighting to win.

My Hall of Fame are my fans.

I fixed my nose, and now I’m breathing better, snoring less.

I want to be tested until my limit.

Everybody has a savage instinct.

I am available to work together with the commission to create clear laws that give the athletes the proper respect. The athletes deserve more respect.

You have to be able to take a punch. A strong neck is really important.

No more corrupt politicians stealing from us.

I’m so glad we have jobs after fighting. A lot of important fighters before would stop fighting and have nothing left. Today, you can fight and make money in a normal life.

If you own an event, it’s your job to make sure the athletes are satisfied when they fight.

If you open one little gym that has some mats and one bag, you can save lives.

Shogun vs. Lyoto is a fight that no one can miss. It’s hard for me to say anything because I’m great friends with Shogun. I’m cheering for Shogun. I’m friends with Lyoto as well. I like him and I respect him and admire him as a fighter, and outside the ring, he is a great example to all of us.

The active fighters can’t speak up or they will be fired. Because this monopoly doesn’t allow for a free market. We have to free the fighters so they can fight wherever they want.

In 20 years of career and 50 professional fights, I never refused to test or failed to apply for a license to fight.

I like taking on the tough guys.

There are two guys that I think are underrated – Thiago Tavarres and Tyson Griffin.

In Bellator, one guy that I would love to fight is Kimbo. And I’m not going to the ground. I want to fight in his area.

I’m so happy to have my first main event in the UFC.

The emotion that I have going into the Octagon and from the crowd is unbelievable. It’s priceless.

If you don’t want to sweat, stay on the couch.

I have some issues that I don’t know if they will become issues. I have some things in my head, I forget things. I can’t turn my head a lot or my brain crashes. I have back and wrist pain.

I don’t have any superstitions, because I am a Christian.

I want Sonnen to feel ashamed of how bad he’ll be beaten by me.

How can someone who has never been slapped in the face talk about the greatest fighter of all times?

The probability I knock out Chael Sonnen is very big. Man, everybody knows his game. He is never going to take me down and I’m going to break his nose with my knee.

We have to understand that all geniuses have a crazy side to them.

The promoter of an event can’t take sides. He can’t give better conditions to one fighter over the other. Everyone has to be treated with quality.

The promotions put fighters against each other, and they don’t want to pay anything to them. If you refuse to fight, the promoter shows up – and sometimes he wants to show off more than the fighters. This is a shame.

My career is over because I don’t have the stage to perform where athletes get the proper respect.

It’s a dangerous sport, you can get really hurt. God helped me, protected me so I wouldn’t have any damage, any serious injury.

I was in a lecture about concussions and of the 10 symptoms the guy mentioned, I had eight. The symptoms would be, for example, mood swings, getting angry very fast, forgetting some things, having difficulty sleeping.

It’s normal to be under pressure. I’m fighting professionally for 15 years, and it’s always been like that.

Try to find a good gym, have a schedule or take a class every day, and make it a habit.

My return was interesting because Bellator gave me a stage that was worthy of the return of Wanderlei Silva. I was the main event, sold out.

My next step is give opportunities so that guys can train. I watch here in Brazil and we’ve lost a lot of talent just because guys don’t have a membership to the gym. I want to make free gyms in the community.

You can’t fight like a machine, like you are worried about what the promoter is going to think.

If I could leave a tip for the young guys, it would be don’t hit yourselves every day.

I want the MMA fighter to make as much money as the NBA and NFL players. We are as professional as they are, we are on the TV too, but we don’t get paid like they do.

I’m a professional; I’d never fight against Mirko or anyone else not being prepared.

I’m not that type of guy that only accepts a fight when a guy is coming off a win.

If you go out and make a show and put your heart on the line every time, the people will respond to that and the promoter won’t be able to say anything.

My great fight was against Liddell. I lost via decision but it was one of the fights that I most enjoyed to be part of. He was tough, had heavy hands, I was able to handle him and knock him down in the second round, we gave an amazing show.

But I was born in the real world, I’m from the streets.

The power from the punches come from your legs.

That stadium, Saitama, has given me some of the best moments in my career.

People love my style because I’m so aggressive.

Lyoto makes it very difficult to knock him out, he escapes well and moves very well.

Shogun is the most talented guy I’ve ever seen.

But what astonished me is that this Croatian, this Mirko Cro Cop guy, called me the best in the world, a legend in front of me, but behind the computer he’s talking a bunch of crap. What kind of man are you to say this crap online and not to my face?

I live in Las Vegas and I like my money, but I don’t gamble, but I said to my wife I want to put a $100,000 on Shogun.

I just opened a free, public MMA gym in Paraiba, so why can’t Curitiba or Sao Paulo have one? No money? Someone needs to do this.

I like the octagon because there are no corners; there is nowhere for my opponent to go.

I don’t like jokes.

Like people say, it’s very hard for a good professional to retire.

Bellator is indirectly creating the stars division – I’m 42 now – where stars fight each other.

I don’t think about my losses. I only think about winning my next fight and preparing for my next fight.

The UFC are promoting a lot of cards and there are a lot of fights that people even don’t know that will happen. But Wanderlei Silva vs. Dan Henderson would sell very well.

Almost every single one of my fights was the fight of the night and the public was always interested in watching me compete.

Who sees Wanderlei Silva today, with all the marketing, with a good gym and getting paid well to fight, they don’t know the difficulties I went through. I went through a lot of hardships in my life.

It’s not news that I want to face Vitor Belfort or Chael Sonnen.

I’ll never doubt Anderson Silva.

I am retired, I don’t fight anymore, I lost the desire.

I’ve had a couple knockouts, but I feel good.

My second bout with Cro Cop was the hardest. I had a serious injury in my eye during the fight and he knocked me out in the second round. I think it was the closest I’ve been to death.

I’m against steroids. Steroids are bad.

We are not like machines; we can’t train as fast after years but I feel really happy and I want to give fans a good fight. When I can’t do that anymore, I’ll stop.

In this profession, you hurt the body a little. It’s normal. Part of the job.

The truth is that I want to fight in the old Pride rules, I want to kick guys in the face on the ground. With that rule, I think I can fight with anyone.

Of course we always want to win, and train for it, but I also care about the quality of my performance. I want to provide a great spectacle for those who are at home.

UFC have the best fighters.