Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira
Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Brazilian mixed martial artist Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira.
Last updated on August 21, 2024.
I went through three surgeries on my hip and knees.
I've always had a passion to follow the development of new athletes and that's what I intend to continue doing.
Distance is everything, in a fight. When you lose your distance, you lose your timing.
If I'm not showing well or I'm not motivated, there is no way I can be fighting anymore.
Every single fighter in the UFC dreams to be the champ.
I started my surgery career early, at 11 years old when I was hit by the truck.
The people who are at home watching want to see the fourth and fifth round.
In my last fight I couldn't explode as much. Sometimes I had a chance to throw the guy, to close the distance, and I missed that distance because of my hips.
My BJJ works very well.
In training, I'm always being tested. I believe that if I'm training well, I will fight well.
I'm hungry, but I have a good team around me. Good coaches and good sparring partners.
I have a lot of respect for Fedor Emelianenko, who beat me two times.
I like to be the underdog.
Fighting in the cage brings much more adrenaline than fighting in the ring. When you step inside the Octagon and they close the door, that's really a high adrenaline feeling because they enclose you and one guy in the cage.
In Miami, you can walk in the street and see people. It's like Brazil.
I've been working for the UFC since I stopped fighting. It's been very exciting, looking at all the new guys, all the young talents in Brazil and trying to help them out, promote themselves and get them into the UFC.
I can say that in our gym, 'Toquinho' has never hurt anyone. He is a good person, excellent company and a man with a great character. I believe that he has never thought of doing anything evil to any opponent because this isn't his conduct.
I like the ground game a lot.
Nothing compares to when you are in coma and you hear voices and think you are dying. Then you come out of the coma and hear more voices saying you will not walk, not play sports, not be normal. And all the time your mind is fighting back saying, you will be strong, you will fight.
I love to be around the fighters, training. That's my favorite thing.
Fighting Frank Mir is something I'd love to do. I'm motivated to fight him.
Guys who are my friends, guys who I visit their homes, I don't feel like fighting those guys.
You know what, if I had to do it all again, I would do the same things as before. I would meet the same people, make a lot of friends, bring a lot of happiness to my country. I get to travel all over the world, doing seminars. I have thousands of students in the Nogueira gyms.
It was two fights: the fight itself, and the fight to be able to see. That's one of the reasons why I stopped fighting.
One year in the hospital will make you strong. It made me strong.
I have done a total of 22 surgeries; I'm all broken.
For those who believed in me or not, because I knew there'd be people in there who didn't believe in me but would cheer for me.
I'm honored to face such a great fighter as Randy Couture.
I had many fights in Pride, many battles there.
I show I have heart.
I've had a chance to fight for a couple titles in my life. That's what keeps me motivated.
I want to help further the spread of MMA around the world and give my contribution to the emergence and development of young talent.
I know I won't fight forever.
Eleven months off, I don't like that. It makes you get out of shape.
It's always great to fight in Brazil, especially northeast Brazil. There are a lot of tough people here. It's a tough part of the country, to fight here is amazing for me.
When I get hurt, I fix it and go back fighting.
A lot of guys came in after me and they quit before me. I've seen that a lot. That's motivation. That's teamwork, I don't do that myself.
I've improved a lot of things. I've improved a lot of my hands.
Bad fights happen, you know?
When you wake up in the morning and have good training and learn something, have good adrenaline and you're going to face some good guys in the gym, that keeps you warm.
Everything that happens inside the cage is very quick and the fighter acts more by reflex than by reasoning.
When you're fighting five rounds, I know I gotta move a lot.
I was born with natural talent and started fighting when I was 4 years old in judo.
I have 16 metal screws in my right arm, from the elbow to the shoulder, and they are extremely painful at the beginning of a training camp and also when the temperature changes. I also had a surgery on my left arm and two on my hips. Those four surgeries were pivotal in my decision to retire.
I implanted an intraocular contact lens, and if you poke me in the eye really hard it moves. Imagine how many punches I took... I had to put it back in place all the time.
I used to ride horses and I remember one day I was working with a horse and we were having it jump, you know? There was a competition and so we were doing a test run and the horse fell on top of my body. I was a kid, like 7 years old. It took them a long time to take the horse off of my body after it had fallen.
I never expect to get submitted, but that is the game.
I like submitting guys, but if I see an opportunity for a KO, I won't let it go.
As a fighter you got to be 100 percent.
Always I try one submission. If it doesn't work, the second one works.
The Japanese people treated me very well. They appreciated how I considered the martial arts, the jiu-jitsu and judo. There's some good points and bad points to fight there. The distance was too far from where I used to live in Brazil. It was a 27-hour flight.
I've had a couple great moments in my career, I beat Cro Cop, I won the Pride belt.
In five rounds, the guy who is better prepared is going to win the fight, so I like the idea of a five-round fight.
I was at a birthday party and a truck backed up and the wheels ran over my chest. I lost part of my lung and my liver.
Oh man, I had staph for over a year.
I was in a coma for a long time and in and out of the hospital for a year. For sure, when I'm in a fight and having a hard time, I think back to that time because that was the worst. No matter how bad things are, my attitude is that it's nothing compared to what happened then. Thank God I survived it.
I always keep training like an athlete. It's a lifestyle. I love that.
In Japan the fight is very cultural. The fans are very quiet the day of the fight. I was in a stadium fighting with 87,000 people and I could hear my sister talking to me. That's different than America.
The guys who keep coming into the gym keep me young.
I'm used to big guys and I've never had a problem with the real big guys.
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