Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Alexander Volkanovski - Page 2

I'm smart, I'm fast, and I hit hard.

I want these ranked opponents.

I want to take on fighters like Jeremy Stephens, Andre Fili... get ourselves into the Octagon and see if these guys can bully me.

Sometimes there's just no room for apologies.

I ain't no easy fight for anyone.

My right-hand hit is my favourite.

Ground and pound is my thing, everyone knows that.

I've always been a sort of goer.

Styles make fights.

People are going to give me the respect I deserve.

When it comes to pace, we know that I don't have a problem.

I had bad back injuries; two bulging discs and a broken fragment off a disc, all in my sciatic nerve.

When it comes to power, we know I got power, and we know I can wrestle.

I like to throw bombs.

One of my biggest fan bases is probably Macedonians, they always get behind me. They're always hitting me up on Facebook speaking Macedonian to me which I don't understand, so I get my dad to translate it for me.

I've got all the tools to make it hard for anyone, especially someone that's a division lower than me.

I was never planning on just making the UFC, I was always planning to be champion.

My father is from the village of Beranci, Macedonia, and my mother is from Greece.

I believe I'm a similar style to Khabib when it comes to the ground and stuff, but I believe I've got a whole 'nother, higher level of striking.

Everyone knows my style - I jam my hips in, jam their head into the mat and punch their head through the canvas.

I just really like ground and pound. The way I do it, it looks like I'm just throwing bombs, but there's some technique to it too. I make sure I'm controlling the hips, palming his face to the ground, just little things like this that make sure that the ground and pound works and I'm not letting him tie me up to where I can't throw punches.

With all my fights, my style is to pretty much put a beating on. I don't exactly like hurting people, but unfortunately that's what we need to do in this game to win.

My last year of football I started having a couple of MMA fights, and bringing the weight down. It started in the pre-season of football, just to keep fit, and I did really well.

I know how to find my way into the takedown.

I've been on magazines in Macedonia and all things like that.

I could be sparring mates and you're meant to hit 'em, but we'll be sparring and usually I try and stop at the face, or I don't really try and follow through, but sometimes they walk into them and I say 'oh sorry mate.' They get angry and say 'we're sparring get into it,' but I dunno, I think I'm so used to saying sorry.

It's definitely tough when people don't believe in you. Actually, that's wrong. It's not that they don't believe in you. They just care. A lot.

Fighters now, they think you have to trash talk to be marketable. Yet so much of what they're saying, it bores me.

I made promises to myself and my family that I'd be in the UFC before my first daughter was born, that didn't happen. I was almost at breaking point a week before I got that contract, I was going to go back to concreting - that weekend I get my major sponsor, which was huge, and I end up getting my UFC contract the weekend after that.

Robert Whittaker has really opened eyes, look what he's doing.

Being in UFC is a great promotion for me because I have more fans from all over Australia.

I didn't think I could make the NRL, but I was confident in myself that I could make the UFC.

Even just my basics are so effective against a guy like Max Holloway.

Some people fight and stuff outside the cage, but I never liked that sort of thing. I just always wanted to do martial arts and I finally did it at 22 years old, so later in life, but it's all good.

Playing league, I was always a chunky ball. And my head, it was huge, too.

I used to play in the front row, I could eat whatever I want - but I got up to 97 kilograms. And let's remember I'm five foot bloody nothing!

If there's one thing I'd say to anyone out there, is that if you're in this game, it's a rollercoaster. There's a lot of ups and downs.

I've never been here to simply compete.

I used to wrestle when I was younger. It was soccer, wrestling, rugby league and now MMA.

I wrestled before rugby league so I always had a pretty good wrestling background, a good base, and that helped with my football. It just meant my balance was always so good; a strong core, good hips and just things like that just really played a factor in how I ran the ball and tackled.