Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Rafael dos Anjos - Page 2

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Last updated on April 16, 2025.
I don't want to just be a champion, and I'm done with that. I wanna be a lightweight legend.
I train to be the champion.
When I was 16 years old, I weighed 176 pounds. — © Rafael dos Anjos
When I was 16 years old, I weighed 176 pounds.
Eddie Alvarez, man, he's a tough guy.
Bro, how are you going to tap on the neck, on the choke? Go to sleep, man. Be a man.
I think social media is good for promotion, stuff like that, but people are so negative. People are too negative. If you read the comments, it's just too negative.
Everything I want to do in my life, I want to be at the top.
I'm not a trash talker. I respect my opponents.
I train to fight five rounds, but if we can end the fight in the first round, it's even better.
I get paid the same money if I'm fighting on pay-per-view or on Fight Pass, and Fight Pass is just getting started. It's the future. The Internet, many people watch it.
We have a lot of Brazilians in the United States. It doesn't mean we're traitors to our country.
I don't want to lose what I've won.
Brazil is on my side. — © Rafael dos Anjos
Brazil is on my side.
Now that I've achieved my goal to win the belt, I want to be the best of all times. I want to be remembered as the lightweight with most title defenses.
In the future, I want to have super-fights.
I think things will come once I get the respect that I deserve. Keeping my belt for a long time... Things will happen like normal. I can't force those things.
I think Robbie Lawler is a good name and a fight that interests me.
It was tough to make weight against Cerrone, and I passed out three times making weight for the Eddie Alvarez fight. One day you get to the limit.
If you look at my record, I have a clean record.
I think money comes and goes. What comes easy goes easy.
People don't believe in me very much, but I have my teammates and my family that believe in me so much; they see how hard I work.
I didn't get any crazy sponsors. I don't have any extra sponsors since I got the belt.
People see me because I'm winning my fights. That's how I want people seeing me.
If I don't fight McGregor, I still have a good life.
I miss submitting people; I have a lot of confidence in my jiu-jitsu.
I like my life. I like competing, but it's not just because of the money.
I don't want to fight anybody that just wants to hold you and try and eat the time.
What made me move up to welterweight was all the effort I was doing, to look at my health and have a good life. I wanted to stop sacrificing so much. — © Rafael dos Anjos
What made me move up to welterweight was all the effort I was doing, to look at my health and have a good life. I wanted to stop sacrificing so much.
We have people around the world who live in the United States, and these people don't deserve to be called traitors.
I think to get a title shot, you need to have some expressive winnings.
I fought well at 155, but I don't think I ever came close to my best at 155. I think I'll get to my best at 170 pounds.
The whole world has American dreams. This country has people from all parts of the world. We have Irish who live here, we have Brazilians.
Coming from where I came from, I was born naked with no teeth. Now I have everything.
I do things right. No shortcuts.
Ben Henderson, he had never been knocked out before fighting me.
I need talk more, call people out. It's not who I am, but I feel I need to do this more to bring more attention for me.
I fight because I like challenges.
I like to fight, and I think the fans want to see a good fight, too. — © Rafael dos Anjos
I like to fight, and I think the fans want to see a good fight, too.
I talk the truth. I don't trash talk, I just talk the truth.
When you're a fighter, and you're not doing good in your work, that happens - you lost the fight.
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