Top 118 Quotes & Sayings by Tito Ortiz - Page 2

I've seen everything during my career.

Being outspoken was important... I helped make the UFC what it is today with Chuck Liddell, Royce Gracie, and Randy Couture. Some said I was outspoken in a bad way, but I was just trying to educate the fans what being a UFC fighter is all about.

I'm just so intense when I fight, and I think a lot of fans love that.

Jon Jones is a great champion, but me in my prime, I was devastating. I was vicious. Nobody could stop me. Of course I could beat him in my prime.

From a kid who didn't come from much success growing up but watched Muhammad Ali and Hulk Hogan, to where I am today... I tell kids, 'You can achieve anything you want as long as you stick with it.'

I'm an entertainer. I love to fight.

I am one of the guys who really capitalized on the ground-and-pound game and am very vicious on the ground. I let go of a lot of elbows and cause a lot of damage.

My kids come first on all measures.

Wrestling encompasses hard work, dedication, sacrifice, and determination - there's just nothing like it in any sport.

I had my first fight at UFC 13, and it was just one of those things that become second nature to me.

I did my job to make my name a household name.

Anything with Tito Ortiz's name on it will always involve a bit of controversy.

They eat clean, they don't drink sodas, they don't have fast food. My kids eat like pro athletes.

Trust has always been a hard issue in my life, and when I was with the UFC, it was hard for me to trust people because it was like I was seeing lies, up to lies, up to lies.

At the end of the day, I'm a dad, and I try to give my kids everything I never had as a kid.

I've been able to mature and improve my mixed martial arts game completely; I just never stop learning, and whenever I think I know enough, I just keep working and do more.

The whole bad-boy image was for the cage, and that's it. It wasn't an act because it came from a passion for fighting.

When you're winning, your confidence is through the roof, but when you're losing, that self-doubt is like, 'Am I doing the right thing?'

I made the wrong decision myself in my career. I tried to battle against the system. I should have never done that, but I didn't have anybody else who showed me how to do it before. I did everything on instinct.

I fight on emotions. When I don't fight on emotions, I don't fight well. I fight on emotion, because I'm in for survival.

I want to fight the top guys in the world. Guys who have names. Guys who I don't mind trying to make a mark off of me by them trying to win, which, they're gonna become losers.

Man's best friend - that's what dogs are. I have two dogs. I love and treat them like family.

I'm invested in the UFC, but I'm invested in myself at the same time, showing everyone that I am one of the greatest.

My true inspiration is to give everything to my kids that I never had. I had a really rough upbringing, and I want to break that chain. I've broken the chain, and I want to give my kids happiness every single day. When they wake up and hop on me and say; 'Dad I love you,' that is what means the most to me.

For me, boxing's like checkers, and MMA's like chess - there are so many ways to win the match. It's not barbaric; it's boxing, kickboxing, Jiu-Jitsu, wrestling, cardio and it's all reached such an amazing level. As fans learn more about the sport, they just fall in love with it.

I'm a Trump guy. I wasn't in the beginning, of course. I'm Mexican, when he said we need to take all the Mexicans out of United States... well, good luck on that one. They'll find a way to get back here anyways.

Michael Bisping is a really tough competitor and a hard worker.

I always knew I wanted to have a family because I didn't have one growing up.

I'm a very emotional person. That's every one of my fights; it's all emotions.

Every fight is won in the gym. The hard part of our job is getting in the gym every day, six days a week.

I did what Jon 'Bones' Jones couldn't do, and that was finish Bader in a minute and fifty-six seconds.

When I get in that cage and fight, that's not me. It's somebody else. It's like a light switch that turns on.

I'm a big juicer, and I believe in juicing most vegetables and fruit, which I do twice a day.

I punish the guy until the referee pulls me off or until he says 'no more,' and he taps. I don't want to leave any doubt in his mind that he had a chance.

We're fighters. We go out there, and we'll open a window of opportunity, and they're only open for so long, and we have to take advantage of that time right then. When I did it, I was 30-31 years old. Maybe it was a little too late that I should have did it, but I did it right. I was okay with the money that I got, the money that I made.

I don't have to prove anything else in this MMA world.

Back when the UFC first started, I wanted to see what MMA was all about; at the time, I was training with Tank Abbott, and so I went to see him fight. While at the fight, I saw this guy fighting that I just crushed in high school wrestling, and I thought, 'Hey, I'm a street fighter, and I have a wrestling background,' so I gave it a shot.

I do charity work for St. Jude's Children's Hospital and the USO. I made all the money I'm ever going to need - all my family is every going to need - so I try to give back to the community.

I know what it feels like to be broke and alone, and I don't ever want my loved ones to see that or know what it's like.

It's nice to feel loved instead of feeling hated.

I will punish the hammer and turn him into a mallet.

What I tell ya? Don't blink! It's just gonna be over quick.

We are the modern day gladiators.

God put me on this earth to be a tool.

I found a wonderful woman, a great girl and I am excited to have her as a part of my life.

Prepare yourself for the worst, and the best will always happen.

Why not be a man and fight like a man.

I'm inspired to inspire others.

I run a multi billion dollar company

Life's too short to hate.

Everybody wants to fight me so they can be a superstar.

It's always nice to look in the mirror at the end of the day and see that you helped somebody's life... even if only a little bit.

I want to show what hard work and dedication and sacrifice can achieve.

I just think God put me on this earth as a tool... showing people you can achieve stuff once you set you mind to things, that it can be accomplished.

I just take fights that make me feel comfortable.

Prepare for the worst so the best will happen

There are guys over in Iraq that have been there for up to 14 months. It has been really tough on them. So any support that I can give; I'll give as much as I can.

Just believe, it will happen.