Roy Nelson
I am a student first, teacher second.Collection: Teacher
I always thought the best part about sports was the bigger, faster kids who were supposed to be more athletic than me - I always beat.Collection: Sports
I'm usually looking to wrestle and grapple, but I guess the knockouts just happen.
On any given day, I know on any given day I can beat anyone else and knock out anyone else out.
A lot of people out there are bullies, and they pick on people and call people names. You need to grow up from that, and you need to become a better person.
Stupid can't fix stupid.
Everybody hates a whiner.
If you made the choice to get in there and fight, you have to accept accountability for whatever happens.
If you've got a mortgage, and you've got bills to pay, you might tend to do some stupid things.
I'd fight anyone I've ever lost to.
Carwin, he seems like he trains for five one-minute rounds. That's his championship fight, apparently.
You have all that muscle on you, you're going to get tired. That's why I prefer to be fat.
My goal is to always fight the best in the world and put on a show for the fans.
I think Lesnar could probably beat Fedor, just from pure size.
A good wrestler, with good jiu jitsu and great boxing, can beat Fedor.
I think I'd do pretty well with Fedor.
I guess there's a showmanship in fighting.
I think just more that it's okay for fighters to have a self-esteem. I think I've kind of shown that that's okay. And as long as you put the hard work in, you can accomplish anything.
I go where the fans want me.
The only thing that's going to be more epic than Roy Nelson fighting Mark Hunt is Roy Nelson fighting for the belt. Those are two fights that I know fans want to see.
The one thing about the heavyweight division or, actually, just being in the UFC, anybody can win, and anybody can lose. You're competing with the best in the world.
You learn from your mistakes, and you grow from them.
Our sport was founded on the tournament.
What brought me to Bellator was Scott Coker, Viacom, and one of my good friends, Mike Kogan.
One of the things in marriage is you have to understand what appreciation is about, and that'll keep me for longevity. That's why my fans love me, because I appreciate them. Because with no fans, there would be no sport, no fighting for me, no UFC, no Bellator, no Rizin; there'd be nothing without the fans.
I can always fight the best in the world.
Anytime I come to any organization, I have my sights on the belt.
The thing is that anybody in the heavyweight division can be champion any day just because of one punch.
To me, everything is a joke in MMA when it comes to serious topics because you can't really talk seriously about anything in our business.
We're in this business to make money, but then nobody wants to talk about how much money we're making. That's serious, but nobody will talk about it.
I'm always down to fight a legend of the sport.
MMA has a lot of those things that you're not allowed to talk about; like, they're completely off-limits. So you have to make a joke out of it.
I just remember I used to go to each tournament to make a couple bucks. I did as a living thing; I got paid to do martial arts, so I'd go to these jiu-jitsu tournaments and make, like, $1000 every time I won the tournament.
When I grappled, I never even trained for a grappling match.
Just go out there against the best fighters in the world and see where I stand. That's what I want.
I think with every heavyweight, there's a style that makes for a different fight with different fighters.
That was the best part of the Pride guys - they'd go out and entertain. They'd either get knocked out or knock somebody out; they were always trying to finish the fight.
Anybody that was from the old Pride days is a fighter.
TV makes you look taller and fatter.
I relate more to 90 percent of America because I look like 'em, act like 'em. I'm not above anybody; I put my pants on the same way. Some guys try to live up to their persona. I'm just me.
When you think what Big Country could be, I could be that guy.
For me, the biggest thing with Overeem, he's a K-1 champ, Strikeforce champ, DREAM champ, you name it. He's had every belt in there.
I don't care if I win or lose; I know I'm going to give 110%, and I'm going to hold my head high at the end of the day.
I made more from sponsorship than I did from fighting. I did that for the longest time.
I really enjoyed playing rugby. I loved the camaraderie with the other athletes. It was kind of like fighting. Team fighting.
The one thing that always sucks about me is that I'm just a fighter, and I just love to fight.
It all comes down to money. If the money is right, I'll fight anybody, any time. I'll hit my grandma in the face if the price is right.
I'm always interested in furthering our sport. Like, I would love to be a correspondent newsperson, somebody who informs the fans a little bit more and able to bring a little more closure to our sport where it's more of a black and white as opposed to the gray area.
I'm more than a fighter and not just a pretty face.
I definitely envision myself in politics at some point.