Top 101 Quotes & Sayings by Matt Serra - Page 2

I was a decent-sized kid growing up. I was never a small kid.

I get to help a lot of teenagers and kids that were maybe like me when they were younger. Now they have the jiujitsu so they can compete and be tough guys that way.

What I pull off in sparring I should be able to pull off in a fight.

Aljo has already beaten a former world champion in Renan Barao, and I thought he fought masterfully, using all these ranges beautifully. He's like the Black Panther showing the world who he is.

I was a normal height back in the day.

It is not overwhelming, like you are George Clooney, but at the Starbucks, at the 7-Eleven or walking around Manhattan or the Roosevelt Field Mall, I do get recognized. It's nice.

This game has such extreme highs and lows.

I'm a New Yorker, I say what's on my mind, because not being that way, what's the point of that? People may think this is hype, but you look back before at my other fights and you see that I don't talk trash.

I don't need to kickbox or box every day.

Me and Hughes, we're two different kinds of people.

I don't get caught up in the hype, the so-called experts, the Internet; they're not in there with us.

I am an expert on the floor and I am dangerous in all areas, not to toot my own horn.

No matter what I think about Matt Hughes, and it's not much, he's a dangerous opponent.

You want to push a guy up against a cage, there's nothing like pushing a car.

The glass is always half full for me.

I worked night security for Estee Lauder. It was horrible. I worked from midnight till 8 in the morning. I did that just so I could sleep during the day, then go into Manhattan to train with Renzo at night. I would train, then go work all night in a guard booth.

When Joe Silva called me with the Trigg fight, I said, 'Hell yeah.' It's a matchup that excites me a lot.

If I beat Hughes they'll say he was done before our fight. There's always going to be those guys that play up the negative part of it, I don't pay too much attention to that.

When you're used to fighting in a cage, nothing scares you.

I'm not going to get a shot at the title and be timid, that's for sure.

Once that cage shuts, I'm the one in control of my destiny.

I knew I wanted to learn jiu-jitsu and maybe one day I would have a challenge match or something like one of those crazy in-action things.

Georges has been running through top competition.

My teachers used to point to the jail across the street and say that's where my fists would land me.

I judge how I'm going to fight by how I'm fighting in the gym, and that's how I'm going to perform.

I need my jiu-jitsu, man.

When I beat GSP it's not like I was getting my butt handed to me and I just closed my eyes and landed a punch.

I love my schools. I love teaching. I change lives.

I don't go out of my way to be a smack talker, you can ask me about anyone and I'll give you my honest opinion.

I always look at things in a positive light.

I do believe that 'Aljo' could be world champion. If you look at the fighters he's faced and beaten, they're high caliber people. He's also faced and overcome adversity, including back-to-back losses in fights he could have won.

What is a 'lucky punch?' Who do these people think I was trying to punch in the face if not Georges? Seriously - where did the luck come into it? I got him hurt and didn't let him off the hook.

Even if you see me with some pasta, I'm still strangling and arm-locking people at least five days a week and I need that.

I felt like I lived my movie, my 'Rocky' movie. So that was cool.

I've had a great career I feel.

Seriously, you tell me, if you aim at something, and then hit it time and time again, was it luck or did you just do what you were trying to do?

I always loved cornering.

I don't watch any sports; I'm just being honest.

Jiu-Jitsu is my therapy, my passion, my life.

Good thing it's a fight and not a modeling contest or you'd be f#cked.

Keep your eye on the prize but enjoy the journey.