Top 103 Quotes & Sayings by Roy Nelson
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Last updated on December 21, 2024.
The one thing about working with Scott Coker - I've never heard a bad thing about Scott Coker. And that means a lot, especially in our sport.
I think the WWE is a great place for professional athletes. Floyd Mayweather did it. Mike Tyson has done it. Even Donald Trump has appeared in the ring.
I really enjoyed playing rugby. I loved the camaraderie with the other athletes. It was kind of like fighting. Team fighting.
I definitely envision myself in politics at some point.
It all comes down to money. If the money is right, I'll fight anybody, any time. I'll hit my grandma in the face if the price is right.
I am a student first, teacher second.
If you're a true MMA fan, you're going to want to have Fight Pass the same way TV and movie fans have Netflix.
Conor McGregor has a beard because of me, because I'm the one who allowed it. If it wasn't for me, none of these guys would have a beard. The same thing with the belly. Fighters who don't look like bodybuilders wouldn't be in the UFC if it wasn't for me. There's a lot of things I've definitely paved the road for.
You'd prefer to fight somebody that you really would rather derail their whole career.
There's a difference between business acquaintances and friends. I consider a friend any time we eat together at the same restaurant, or he's eaten at my house, or I've eaten at his house.
I have plenty of sponsors, and I'm the first American that Pretorian has sponsored.
MMA is all about putting on a show and entertaining the fans, and that's the one thing I've known from the get-go.
I've never had any complaints about my coaching ability.
I'm one of those heavyweights who'd like to fight as often as possible.
I probably train just as hard or harder as everybody.
Do I want a shot at the belt? Yes, of course I do. Put it this way: I am Barry Sanders on the Detroit Lions. You love to watch me, but you'll never see me play in the Super Bowl. It's just one of those things. It's about politics. It's not about fighting.
I've coached UFC champions and stuff before I ever started fighting.
I just like to be entertaining.
I'm just a fat guy.
I always want to fight for the belt. I don't really care.
I think what it is, is that fighters have become business people. I actually love what I'm doing. When you're a business person, sometimes you think of it as, 'Ah, it's work.' I love what I do, but then, on the other end, some guys do this as a living.
On any given day, I know on any given day I can beat anyone else and knock out anyone else out.
I always thought the best part about sports was the bigger, faster kids who were supposed to be more athletic than me - I always beat.
Do I have fat cells on my body? Everybody has fat cells. Do I have more than most other athletes? Probably.
If you paid me $2 million, I'm sure I could lose my belly. But I don't get paid to look a certain way. I get paid to win fights. That's what I concentrate on.
I don't care if I win or lose; I know I'm going to give 110%, and I'm going to hold my head high at the end of the day.
If you go into 'The Ultimate Fighter' and you're just gonna go in there to get just one fight and win... the premise is to win the whole thing. When I went in, I wanted to win the thing or be cut.
We handle it from both sides of the coin: from the sport aspect and the entertainment aspect. You gotta have both because we're if not doing solid ratings, we're not going to be on TV.
We're in the entertainment business. As much as people would like to say it's sport, it's definitely entertainment.
Stipe's one of the top guys in the UFC. He wouldn't be in the UFC if he wasn't one of the best in the world.
I'm always down to give the fans what they want.
I think WWE is a great.
I only fight clean fighters. I'll fight anybody in the UFC that's clean. Or dirty. Or clean.
There's some guys where I'm like, 'I won that fight and only lost because of the judges,' or I got cheated or whatever. I know I'm a better fighter.
I guess everybody is doing a movie thing, so I'm doing the 'Scorpion King 4.' My role in the movie is as one of the king's guards, with a very original name: Roykus. Apparently, back in the day, everybody's name was 'us,' so 'Roy' plus 'us,' and put a little 'k' in there: Roykus. I'm one of the royal guards, and I do my own stunts like Jackie Chan.
I just want to be agreeable; I want to be a pleaser. And that's all I want to do. I want to please the fans or the haters. One or the other.
All I know is that Stipe gave me inspiration because if Stipe can be that UFC champion, and they actually gave him a title shot, then I'm like, 'Ah, I do have a chance.'
Some athletes can master two sports, but most are only good at one.
With boxing, sometimes you'll watch the first three rounds, then you'll change the channel and turn it back in the 10th round. With MMA, you have to watch all 15 minutes. You'll want to watch every second.
I just don't want to be one of those guys that's stuck fighting the same opponents again and again.
Jiu jitsu 101: make the other guy do all the work.
I'm usually looking to wrestle and grapple, but I guess the knockouts just happen.
If you can't beat me, you need to get some new coaches or something.
I'm not surprised to be the coach on 'The Ultimate Fighter.'
I made more from sponsorship than I did from fighting. I did that for the longest time.
There are athletes out there trying to get every advantage they can, including things like muscle and low-fat percentages. I feel if I'm the better fighter, I'm the better fighter.
For me, having pneumonia and losing to Mir doesn't sit well.
You just got to remember that mine and Dana White's relationship is like we're a husband and wife. I do the man's stuff around the house. I do the fighting, all the man's stuff, and he does all the woman stuff - all the yapping.
I think Fedor is one of those guys who capitalizes on a lot of people's mistakes, and nobody capitalizes on his mistakes.
What's wrong with being a two-sport athlete? You've got Deion Sanders. You've got Bo Jackson. You've got Michael Jordan; he wasn't a very good baseball player. There's nothing wrong with crossing over.
If Dana White said he wanted to fight heavyweight, everybody would watch that fight tomorrow just because they want to watch Dana get beat up or win or whatever it is.
We're in a very individual sport, but they like us not to be so individual. They'd rather have you look like every other cookie cutter guy and have you believe that you're replaceable when you're really not.
I've always looked up to Big Nog. He's a legend in the sport and has the mentality that so many fans love, and it's what got me into fighting. He's a man's man and a real fighter.
I'm always looking ahead, not backwards.
I'm not a UFC athlete. I'm a UFC fighter.
I'm more than a fighter and not just a pretty face.
I think I'd probably shine really well in a team sport, but as everybody knows, I don't handle politics very well. A lot of team sports has a lot of politics. Individual sports, it's all about me.
I like to actually fight. It's just in my blood.
I stopped trying to think about how the UFC operates. It's like trying to understand a woman.
With MMA, there are so many ways the fight can go; that's the drama. You don't know what's going to happen next.
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