Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Gegard Mousasi - Page 2

People can't always judge by the records. Maybe a guy has 11 wins in MMA but he's fought the best. Someone else has 11 wins but he's fought nobody. It's a difficult sport because someone can be a champion in four fights, look at Brock Lesnar. So records don't always mean a lot.

A fight is a fight. You can have any style.

I can't put on an act, so I try to be one of the best fighters so at least I get paid. Let's say Michael Bisping, he wasn't that great. He was losing, winning, but he was making a lot of money, and that was because he was outspoken and from the U.K. But not everyone can be like that. So, I tried to be the best I could.

I've trained with Douglas Lima, he's a tough kid, but I could feel the weight difference.

I like fighting in America.

Maybe I'm not the best fighter, but I'm always going to fight, no matter who it is.

The truth hurts. It hurts to some people.

I believe that style-wise, matchup-wise, I matchup much better against Anderson Silva than Jon Jones, but it doesn't mean that I'm scared to fight at 205.

I have no doubt in my abilities that I can beat any of the top ten guys. Once I'm focused I know I can beat them.

Some good fighters, they never won the belt, so it doesn't always show the whole picture. But it's an accomplishment.

It's always been a goal of mine to get the belt in different weight classes.

For a wrestler, I think it is much better to fight in the ring than in the cage. The cage has more advantage for the stand up fighter.

I've been working on wrestling aside from MMA. That is something that I wasn't doing in the past so I'm getting more confident in my wrestling. I learned that I didn't know a lot about takedowns, it's a really big gap and I'm catching up and learning a lot.

I like Vitor Belfort. He's a nice guy and I have nothing against him.

Derek Brunson's stand up is horrible, I'm sorry. The guy is a good fighter but his stand up is just terrible. He's an amateur fighter stand up wise.

Getting in the cage, it's not like I need a whole mental preparation for it. It's just a fight.

Luke Rockhold's not going to take me down. Chris Weidman's not going to take me down. Their wrestling is great, but they have to set it up with strikes.

With the UFC it's like, you make okay money, and only if you're the champion do you make good money. So they're keeping the fighters deliberately poor so they'll keep fighting.

I have great people around me, I have great training partners, and I think if you really want something you work for it and you get it.

Maybe at the end of my career, I could do some fights at heavyweight, when I'm older and not cutting weight. When I'm in my prime, I should stay at my weight class when I'm at my best, but let's say the end of my career, I want to just make an extra buck and not taking it too serious, yeah, I'll get fat and I'll fight, sure.

I was champion in Dream at middleweight, I'm champion in Strikeforce at light heavyweight, and my final goal is to be heavyweight champion of the world.

A wrestler will always be a wrestler, and they will always go back to the basics.

If I would fight Michael Bisping, I would be the favorite. Everybody knows that.

I respect all my opponents and they do the same thing that I do to get ready for fights.

I'd rather fight somebody in the top five rather than somebody in the top 15, but I'll fight anybody.

I think as I get older, I'm going to look for the fun fights.

I see some fighters lose very badly, but still they get more praise or they're not overrated. They're just good fighters in a lot of people's eyes. But I feel like one loss with King Mo, it made me a very bad fighter somehow.

When I was barely 21, I was making my Pride debut. That was at the beginning of my career.

You're going to lose eventually. It doesn't matter who you are.

Even if I win the belt, I'm going to be underrated. It is what is it.

Maybe I lose my fights because I don't fight smart.

Not being able to train or fight for a long time is not going to make you a better fighter.

I have fights where I thought I'm going to destroy the guy and then I had a very tough fight, I had fights where the guy's a big name and I win in the first minute.

It's just a personal challenge, I'd like to see how I can do as a boxer.

I feel like I'm one of the strong middleweights, physically.

People like crap. It doesn't matter. I think if you have a big mouth and you perform so-so, it is what it is. People are going to notice you more. Nice guys come last. Let's say it like that.

I fought a long time ago in Canada, I fought a Croatian guy, I don't remember his name, but there I had a size advantage. At the end, I explained to him about cutting weight. He didn't know about weight-cutting, so I explained to him, and I was bigger than him at that time.

I feel like I have a lot of potential, and I feel like I can beat anybody.

I fought K-1 at heavyweight.

People ask me questions, they ask me if I can beat Michael Bisping. Of course I can beat Michael Bisping.