Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Jorge Masvidal - Page 2

If it was... let's say they just banned 170, that it was either 55 or 85, I'd go to 185 before I'd go to 55.

You know I could get hit with a baseball bat and it don't mean nothing.

I feel like if they added a few weight classes it wouldn't change up the dynamics of the sport. You can still have champions and it wouldn't be like boxing. Boxing got messed up, because they've got so many belts, so many unifications. It's crazy.

I want the biggest fight, no matter where it's at.

I just want to fight the best guys that there is in the world and make the most money out of it.

I want to get paid for my services.

My body of work speaks for itself.

The bigger the fight, the better.

I'm not the type of dude who kicks somebody when they're down.

I do not want to fight Woodley because we're cool. We've worked out so much together, and he's looked out for me in the past with certain hookups that he had at the time. So I don't want to fight that dude.

I've got a big buzz going on because I'm known and put people to sleep.

Not that everybody needs to be Georges St-Pierre, but it would be cool if everybody was just themselves.

I used to be a 55er, Conor used to be a 45er. I'm naturally a 70 pounder, Conor's probably a natural 55er. I'm a small 70 pounder though and Conor's a decent-sized 55er so the size is not that much. It's not incomparable.

I don't want to fight no up-and-coming guy, no guy that's 15-0 but hasn't faced anybody yet.

I've known Woodley for nine-plus years, ten-plus years. We've worked out together plenty. He's one of the guys who used to slam me all around the place. I was at 155, he was at 170 pounds and he was just the wrestler that is a superpower. So that was one of the dudes that got my wrestling a little better from going with guys like that.

I just want to go out and compete. Plus the main thing is, at 55 I need a good amount of time to prepare just to make the weight cut. At 70 I can just take fights as they come and just compete as much as I want.

Over everything, over friendships or anything, is my kids - and obviously fighting for that belt is my kids' future. It doesn't sound too nice, but if my mom had the belt, she better give it up because my kids gotta eat. If I'm willing to fight my mom, imagine a good friend.

I'm a guy who's in there everyday with world-class grapplers feeling that pressure.

Definitely the title, definitely Kamaru Usman interests me.

I don't go around making conversation, I just kind of stick to myself.

I want to put money away in the bank.

I was definitely done with 155, then when I heard they ended up banning IVs I was like, there's no way I can make 55.

Back in the day, you used to have to fight three or four fights in one night with no dodging nobody, and that's what the sport got built on.

I'm not Ben Askren or a lot of these fighters. I've never called a reporter like, hey, I want to be on your show, book me, you know?

I get along just fine with Woodley. He's actually showed me a lot things in the past, and I've worked with him in the past training to help him get ready to fight. There's no hard feelings if me and hit had to scrap.

The more I tour the world, the more I see that people are just like me. They love violence.

A guy like Anderson Silva is one the greatest champions we've had.

I've been fighting professionally since I was 18, and I've been doing three or four fights a year, just doing camp after camp.

The things that I rely on, USADA doesn't have a problem with them. I'm gonna continue to be the same athlete that I've always been.

I'm not going to kill my body, my lifestyle just to go to '55.

Man, I never got to fight a ranked opponent at 155, and that wasn't because I wasn't winning.

I never think past any man, because every guy has two hands and every dude wants to hurt you.

I don't come from this technology world.

I've never pulled out of a fight.

I just like to fight, man. The place doesn't really bother me.

When you're up-and-coming in your career, yes, maybe you have to dodge certain guys. 'Hey, my wrestling isn't good yet, let me get it on-point and then I'll come back there,' or, 'I'm not going to fight that guy right now,' because whatever, when you're up-and-coming. But once you're already at the top of your game, you're in there, man. That's it.

I didn't get a lot of questions asked earlier in my career, I guess. But I've always been the same guy, more or less.

I'm not involved in too many wars, where I'm just constantly getting hit, hit, hit.

My coaches know when it's a big fight, I'm at the gym because if they give me some pretender, another actor, I might not take it.

You guys might not know who Yves Edwards is, if you don't, shame on you, go do some research.