Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Charles Oliveira - Page 2

The only thing Kevin Lee does better than me is talk and sell fights like that. I sell fights my own way, inside the cage.

My jiu-jitsu is very simple and basic.

Anthony Pettis, he's a really tough fighter and it was a close fight until I made a mistake and gave him the neck.

A fight is a fight and anything can happen.

I would really like fight in Uruguay.

I don't think about winning a bonus, I think about putting on a good fight and, if God blesses me, I will win the bonus.

Why 'Do Bronx'? Because I'm from the slums, those are my roots.

I've been fighting in the UFC for five years now and it's about time I'm headlining a card.

Man, jiu-jitsu is such a chess match.

I ended up moving up to lightweight, which I didn't want, and fought a really tough guy, Will Brooks, and beat him like nothing.

To stay in the UFC while fighting top opponents... tell me one easy fight I had in the UFC. I have a history in the UFC.

I work on armbars, triangles, anaconda chokes, guillotines and rear-naked chokes. Basic, simple stuff. I just wanna go there and win the fight, I don't wanna invent too much and try doing fancy things.

There are guys that just entered the UFC and people already talk about fighting for the belt. Guys that have one fight there and say call a jiu-jitsu phenom. They haven't done anything in the UFC yet to deserve all that attention.

Rear-naked chokes are easy? Yeah, it's easy to get, but people are getting better at defending it.

Everybody knows where I come from and how my jiu-jitsu is, training at Macaco Gold Team, but I also work on my striking at Chute Boxe Diego Lima, so I'm prepared on the feet and on the ground.

When Kevin Lee's name was brought up, I told everyone I thought this fight would happen. This is a good fight for me. It surprised me because nobody wants to fight in Brazil.

Actually, 2016 wasn't a good year for me, as I didn't get any wins. But I started to feel things would get better when I found out about the pregnancy. I'm very happy, this is a new chapter of my life and I'm sure I'll win and dedicate it to my daughter and my family.

I know I can beat everyone that defeated me.

If someone ever says I had an easy fight in the UFC, they are lying.

I would fight McGregor in any weight, no problem. It would be a good fight, I'd really like to fight him.

Jim Miller is an important fight for me. It's just like any other fight, but it's important for me because Jim Miller was the first guy to defeat me.

I think Kevin Lee is an excellent fighter who fights well on the feet, has evolved in that area, but his strongest weapon is wrestling, not jiu-jitsu.

I'm staying lighter because I want to go back to 145.

I'm almost certain that no one at featherweight or lightweight wants to go to the ground with me.

Kevin Lee is really tough. He has some flaws in his game that we can work with. I think he mixes up his boxing and his wrestling really well. He takes you down, he unleashes some strong ground and pound. However, he usually starts a round strong and then starts to fade. In five rounds, I think I can take an advantage of that.

Stop messing around sending me unranked fighters. I want someone ranked, someone that will take me closer to my goal, which is to become champion.

I think I have to go down to featherweight. That's where I should stay, where fights will be more equal.

Max Holloway, I know I can beat him.

The new trend in MMA is to talk trash and curse to get a fight, but I'll never change who I am.

I fought three opponents in one night two or three times, but never five rounds.

What's important is to be fighting in the UFC. It doesn't matter if it's the first or last show.

I'm an employee, I work for the UFC.

I had no easy fights ever since I joined the UFC.

I think the only thing that happened when I fought Jim Miller is that I was a just kid, he had way more experience. I was winning the fight, landing punches and trying to get 10 submissions at the same time, and Jim Miller went for one attack only, a kneebar, and got it. His experience made the difference.

I believe everybody feels better when they don't cut too much weight.

Anything you do in your life, you have to be a professional.

What matters the most to me is breaking into the top-10.

My friends joke that I'm a young veteran in the UFC.

McGregor talks a lot, but he's also really tough and deserves our respect.

Becoming the guy with most submissions in UFC history at age 28, breaking Royce's record, will definitely give me more leverage with the UFC. I'll get more attention and more sponsors. It helps a lot.