Top 103 Quotes & Sayings by Roy Nelson - Page 2

You have all that muscle on you, you're going to get tired. That's why I prefer to be fat.

I think Lesnar could probably beat Fedor, just from pure size.

I can always fight the best in the world.

Our sport was founded on the tournament.

Everybody hates a whiner.

The one thing that always sucks about me is that I'm just a fighter, and I just love to fight.

For me, the biggest thing with Overeem, he's a K-1 champ, Strikeforce champ, DREAM champ, you name it. He's had every belt in there.

When I grappled, I never even trained for a grappling match.

I'm always interested in furthering our sport. Like, I would love to be a correspondent newsperson, somebody who informs the fans a little bit more and able to bring a little more closure to our sport where it's more of a black and white as opposed to the gray area.

I guess there's a showmanship in fighting.

A lot of people out there are bullies, and they pick on people and call people names. You need to grow up from that, and you need to become a better person.

A good wrestler, with good jiu jitsu and great boxing, can beat Fedor.

Stupid can't fix stupid.

I think I'd do pretty well with Fedor.

TV makes you look taller and fatter.

My goal is to always fight the best in the world and put on a show for the fans.

When you think what Big Country could be, I could be that guy.

Anytime I come to any organization, I have my sights on the belt.

If you made the choice to get in there and fight, you have to accept accountability for whatever happens.

The only thing that's going to be more epic than Roy Nelson fighting Mark Hunt is Roy Nelson fighting for the belt. Those are two fights that I know fans want to see.

I'd fight anyone I've ever lost to.

Carwin, he seems like he trains for five one-minute rounds. That's his championship fight, apparently.

We're in this business to make money, but then nobody wants to talk about how much money we're making. That's serious, but nobody will talk about it.

I go where the fans want me.

I relate more to 90 percent of America because I look like 'em, act like 'em. I'm not above anybody; I put my pants on the same way. Some guys try to live up to their persona. I'm just me.

You learn from your mistakes, and you grow from them.

That was the best part of the Pride guys - they'd go out and entertain. They'd either get knocked out or knock somebody out; they were always trying to finish the fight.

One of the things in marriage is you have to understand what appreciation is about, and that'll keep me for longevity. That's why my fans love me, because I appreciate them. Because with no fans, there would be no sport, no fighting for me, no UFC, no Bellator, no Rizin; there'd be nothing without the fans.

I just remember I used to go to each tournament to make a couple bucks. I did as a living thing; I got paid to do martial arts, so I'd go to these jiu-jitsu tournaments and make, like, $1000 every time I won the tournament.

I think with every heavyweight, there's a style that makes for a different fight with different fighters.

The thing is that anybody in the heavyweight division can be champion any day just because of one punch.

MMA has a lot of those things that you're not allowed to talk about; like, they're completely off-limits. So you have to make a joke out of it.

I think just more that it's okay for fighters to have a self-esteem. I think I've kind of shown that that's okay. And as long as you put the hard work in, you can accomplish anything.

If you've got a mortgage, and you've got bills to pay, you might tend to do some stupid things.

What brought me to Bellator was Scott Coker, Viacom, and one of my good friends, Mike Kogan.

I'm always down to fight a legend of the sport.

The one thing about the heavyweight division or, actually, just being in the UFC, anybody can win, and anybody can lose. You're competing with the best in the world.

Anybody that was from the old Pride days is a fighter.

Just go out there against the best fighters in the world and see where I stand. That's what I want.

To me, everything is a joke in MMA when it comes to serious topics because you can't really talk seriously about anything in our business.

There is a power within you that will free you!

The addiction isn't your problem - it is what you use to cope with your problem.

I came to a terrifying place in my life where I knew I was hopeless. My only hope was to change....or die.