Wanderlei Silva
The emotion that I have going into the Octagon and from the crowd is unbelievable. It's priceless.
Sometimes I put my heart in front of my technique.
I'm so happy to have my first main event in the UFC.
People love my style because I'm so aggressive.
UFC have the best fighters.
You need to respect the body. We're not 22, 23 years old. I'm 35.
Everybody has a savage instinct.
Sonnen always appeared as the nice guy, consoling his fighters, while my scenes were all of me with ugly face. It was biased.
I don't use PEDs or steroids, I have never used it and I've never had any problems in that area.
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.
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 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.
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.
If you open one little gym that has some mats and one bag, you can save lives.
I have my own money. I don't need to make too much more money where I'm at in my life.
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.
No gloves cut a bit more, but that's not a problem if you don't fear blood.
The UFC isn't this whole glamor everybody thinks. They don't pay you right.
Almost every single one of my fights was the fight of the night and the public was always interested in watching me compete.
It's sad when a MMA fighter talks to an NFL or NBA player about how much money they make. That's embarrassing. You tell them how much you make and they laugh.
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 am retired, I don't fight anymore, I lost the desire.
I've had more than 200 stitches, only in the area of the eyes.
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.
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.
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.
The athlete needs money to prepare for a fight and to perform well. How are you going to prepare well if you have to have another job to make money?
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.
We have to understand that all geniuses have a crazy side to them.
I'll never doubt Anderson Silva.
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.
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.
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.
With the way things are going now in the UFC, you have to be ready to fight anytime they call you. During war times, you have to keep your guns always clean.
I want Sonnen to feel ashamed of how bad he'll be beaten by me.
I'm not that type of guy that only accepts a fight when a guy is coming off a win.
I have other plans, other businesses. I have things to do. But I love to fight. I love this sport.
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.
In this profession, you hurt the body a little. It's normal. Part of the job.
I'll fight in both divisions, 185 and 205. I feel good. That's a choice for the boss, where Dana wants me to fight. It's no problem.
I don't have any superstitions, because I am a Christian.
If you don't want to sweat, stay on the couch.
Shogun is the most talented guy I've ever seen.
I fixed my nose, and now I'm breathing better, snoring less.
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.
If you have a young student, don't let him take too many punches to the head. There's the right moment to do a hard training, but it can't be every day. A good coach takes care of your student.
If I could leave a tip for the young guys, it would be don't hit yourselves every day.
I'm against steroids. Steroids are bad.
I'm against all types of drugs and steroids, but the athlete has the right to have a private life. He has to be clean on the day of the competition. Out of competition, that's his life.
People have to be more careful in traffic. It's hard to ride bikes in Curitiba.