Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Patricio Freire - Page 2

Bellator is a safe place to be, a company that cares about you.

Pat Curran is a very tough guy to fight. He has a very good chin. I gave him five knockdowns and he survived.

My left hook is the H-bomb of the Featherweight division.

If I always fought dominating my opponents without being hit back some times there would be no fun in it. That's the fun part, to have a war, there has to be a war.

If I'm on a card, I should be the main event.

If you see my ratings when I fight, you will see my ratings are well above average.

I'm very comfortable in Bellator. It would be interesting to have superfight between a Bellator champion and an UFC champion. I wouldn't have to necessarily migrate to the UFC. We could just have one duel. When it comes to the best fighters in the UFC, I think I'm better than all of them.

No other featherweight has my hands.

Ben Henderson is a unique challenge.

Sometimes I wanted to be the champion in multiple weight classes.

I think the tournament is maybe the most fair way to fight for a title because, basically, it's a ranking system. It's an elimination system, so you gotta go through the tournaments to face the champion.

There are several rivalries in MMA and vale tudo history, like jiu-jitsu vs. luta livre and Chute Boxe vs. Brazilian Top Team. SBG and Pitbull Brothers can start another one that can last a generation.

Every company that wants to sponsor a fighter in the UFC has to pay a sponsor tax to get inside the Octagon, and that's why many fighters in the UFC struggle to get sponsors. In Bellator, we don't have that.

Big mouths can't do anything, you have to prove it in the cage.

The only way to know if a fighter is better than the other is to have them fight.

I've already beat Henry Corrales, but he was a tough one.

Eventually, I want to beat everybody who has called me out.

I haven't been fighting scrubs. Ever since I began I fought the toughest guys that they could put in front of me.

I always watched Kimbo Slice fight on YouTube, everybody knows who he is. He's very popular.

My biggest desire and everyone knows this is to have a cross-promotional fight between Bellator and UFC. That is unlikely to happen, though.

In the UFC, they can simply cut you if you have one win and one loss.

Being in the UFC doesn't mean you're the best. UFC is tough too, but Bellator is tougher.

I've fought Wilson Reis and Pat Curran two times and Daniel Straus four times. I'm sick and tired of rematches. I'm one of the most exciting fighters in MMA, but fans are tired of me fighting the same people over and over. I just keep knocking them out.

Every fight I see as a big fight.

There is a business side of things, but people want to see the best fighting the best.

We need to go through tough fights to appreciate what we have so we are always looking to improve.

Many people are blind and only care about the UFC. That's the wrong way of thinking. The proof is Michael Chandler, coming from Bellator, having such a devastating victory in his UFC debut against a highly ranked opponent.

Weichel hits very hard and is very good with the timing of his attacks.

I don't care about the titles. I care about the challenges.

My rivalry against Chandler - it was personal. On the same night he defeated my brother, he said he could beat my entire family. I made him pay for his words by knocking him out inside the cage in one minute.

I think the champion needs to be active make sure to have rhythm.

I think of myself as the No. 1.

We are gladiators of the third millennium and Rome is the cradle of the gladiators.

I know that UFC doesn't have the best fighters, especially in the lighter weight classes.

I'm a small guy slaying giants and I'll keep doing so.

Chandler, just like myself, has spent most of his career in Bellator and he spent his entire time as a top fighter with people doubting his skills, his opponents and his results. He claimed he was No. 1. I relate to him.

Volkanovski is good at things, but he is not great at anything. He doesn't have good footwork or striking, he doesn't finish anyone, and he stalls a lot.

If there's one thing I do well, it's rematches. I always come back better.

There's no other featherweight in the world that is as complete as I am.

I want to fight legends before I retire.