Top 99 Quotes & Sayings by Cain Velasquez

If you lose, what can you do to get better and learn from it?

I've always loved competing; I've always loved working out - and wrestling, of course.

For me, 240 is my target weight.

You just have to fight the perfect fight to win. You have to have a game plan and follow it. You have to develop every time you go out there and keep getting better.

Heath Herring is tough as nails, and he fights hard.

Know what your strengths are, but also keep in mind what your weaknesses are; always work on your weaknesses.

I'm going to be the best fighter I can be and focus on being me.

You have to set up the right technique to get that takedown. It can't just be any shot. You have to really set it up.

Boxers box to get ready to fight; wrestlers wrestle. We have so much we have to do to get ready, but fighting is one of them.

My body size and everything was perfect for being a heavyweight wrestler rather than being a linebacker.

There is always a possibility that you could lose, because the outcome isn't written yet: you have to go out and write it. If you want it bad enough, if you do the training and prepare yourself to succeed, and do everything in your power to win, you'll have a better chance of succeeding.

My life is calm. Once I get home from practice, I just want to spend time with my family.

MMA is so exciting. It doesn't matter if you know the rules or not. If you like a fight, it's automatically gonna draw you in.

Coaches would have me in the gym do 1,000 kicks for a practice. I would do them until everyone was gone, until I had done all my kicks. People asked me why I would do it - that's stupid. But my coach told me to do something like that, and I knew it would benefit me, and I would do it.

Personally, most of my injuries were ones that I sustained during fights in the UFC, not in practice.

In training, I felt like my body would switch one way, but my leg would kind of stay in one direction. So I kind of felt like it wasn't stable.

It's my heritage overall, my people. Mexicans are known for being hard-working people, showing a lot of heart. I wanted to show people I am Mexican and I'm proud of it.

I know what people expect of me - to have the fighting style of going forward and having a lot of action.

Fight night, I have to go out there and perform. I have to go out there and do what I've been trained to do. It has to come my way. I have to go out there and take it.

You always try to make your teammates better. You help out your teammates, and they help you out in return. As they get better and better, they can help you more and more. At least, I've always seen it that way.

I have the Mexican blood. I'm proud to be Mexican.

I just look at what's ahead of me. I don't think about, 'For my legacy, I need to do this, this, and this.' I just focus on every fight and how to win that fight.

I never go into a fight thinking, 'I have to finish this guy' - that's not a part of my game plan. I go out there and fight the way I fight.

I just have to fight my style of fight, which is a lot of pressure.

The hardest fights I've had have been in the gym, not in the cage. It keeps you motivated. One day, you'll go in and feel like you can beat anybody in the world. The next day, you kind of get humbled. That's what keeps us coming back to train more and more.

You can't dwell on the past and be down on yourself because you lost. You have to take the positive away from it and see how you can improve yourself moving forward.

Don't bad-mouth me and then try to be my friend.

I'm always trying to get better. There's always room for improvement.

Let me be clear: MMA training is tough work, and every fighter has had to enter the Octagon with aches and pains as well as exhaustion. This is the game.

The name of the game is improving, and I've done that.

Obviously, throwing leg kicks in the first round is not smart, but it's something that I can really utilize in the later rounds to both score points and look to finish the fight.

I don't think about being undefeated; I don't think about what people say in the media about me, whether it's good or bad. I just don't think of it.

Fighting is what I love to do.

For me, to make a living off of working out is a dream for me. I don't know, I really can't be in an office and stuff like that. I want to do something that I love, and training, that's what motivates me.

Do I think my wrestling is the best? No, I think it's up there around the top.

To say I was looking forward to fighting in Mexico for the first time is an understatement.

I grew up watching my parents work in the fields. That's where I get my work ethic from, because I saw them work hard my whole life.

I take my health and the longevity of my career very seriously.

Dos Santos just has really good movement. He's really quick with his hands. He throws good combinations, and he has a lot of power. Combining all of that, it makes it really tough for somebody to fight with him.

I loved football as a kid.

I didn't see anybody in the media or on TV that played sports that looked like me. I didn't have those things growing up. Now that I'm in that position, I'm happy to be that person if I can.

The Latino people in the U.S. and the Mexicans in Mexico need a UFC champion. We have a rich tradition in boxing, and to not have a Mexican heavyweight champion is unheard of. We need it. I'm glad I'm able to be in a position to give them that champion they so desperately want.

People know that if I'm 100 percent going into the fight, that there's no one out there that can touch me.

For every new guy, you need to change a few things in the way you train, the way you take every fight. For every guy I train for, I prepare differently and learn new things, and I just keep them. That's why it's good to be fighting new people, because you add new things to your arsenal and keep getting better and better all the time.

I'm not really too big of a sports fan. Everything I watch is MMA, you know, great fights. But other sports, not really too much.

I wasn't thinking that I was going to go through my career undefeated. You expect to lose sometimes.

Once I started wrestling, I really got into it, and I just knew that I wanted to do that - I wanted to wrestle all the way through college.

I will be the first to say when I know I can't fight due to injury, as my long-term health is my number one priority.

You don't want the fight to stop on a cut or something like that. You want to finish the fight. You always have the idea that you have the chance to stay in a fight, because one blow can end it all.

Wrestling has made me very mentally strong, conditioned me really well for MMA, and given me phenomenal balance.

I want everybody on Fox to see my fighting style, to really become a fan of the sport.

I didn't have a hero playing in sports that looked like me.

All I can tell you is I'm going to be myself. I'm not the type of person that is going to develop into some character or come up with some phrase I will always say.

Growing, up I didn't really have anyone to look up to. There weren't a lot of Mexicans on T.V. except for those in boxing.

There's nobody better than me, especially Junior Dos Santos.

Things happen for some reason. I don't know what, but I just think about the positives, focus on getting better, and that's it.

The mentality is nonstop, to work for what you want, your mind keeping your body in the best shape possible.

Every Mexican fighter has the heart; they work hard with their training, and they never give up. That's the mentality I always had and always saw growing up.

While wrestling in college as a junior, it came to a point where wrestling just wasn't enough for me anymore. I love wrestling, but I felt like I was missing something, and so the striking part about MMA, the boxing and kickboxing, was what got me really interested in MMA.

For me, it's all about training and fighting. I would rather do without the attention, but I know it comes with the territory.