Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Tony Ferguson - Page 2

I speak what's real.

I'm not someone to joke around with.

I thought Al Iaquinta did a great job at UFC 223, but Khabib is going to say he won the Super Bowl after he faced the third string? No way, dude. So many people hold him up on a high horse, but I see his flaws. I wasn't impressed with anything he did.

That's what I signed up for in the beginning. I was 170 pounds; 155 was forced on me.

Go back and watch my old footage, man. Go back and watch my old fights. I knocked people out at 170 pounds.

The sport I'm in allows me to use my creativity.

When I first started fighting, it wasn't the easiest thing. I didn't have all the money in the world. I was eating Subway once in a while, some packets of oatmeal here and there. It wasn't that bad, but it's because I was fortunate and had good people there to support me.

I want to keep winning.

This is the fight game. I'm not worried or scared about absolutely anybody who's not talking about me.

I always said the 155-pound belt's been in so many grubby hands, man.

Wits always win, man, in the battle of brain versus brawn.

I finished Edson Barboza in a d'arce choke. What else do you want? He's very hard to take down. Spinning heel kicks, spinning kicks. I took some of his most powerful shots and I just kept coming forward. I'm the Boogeyman out there.

It would be nice to finish Khabib via liver shots, wouldn't it? I just want to see him wincing in pain on the ground where he belongs.

What looks better with that 'Ultimate Fighter' plaque that's on my wall? That belt. I'll tell you what, I won't stop until I get it.

I don't want to be close with anyone who's wishy-washy.

A lot of people like to trash talk, but I don't. I like to use my movements inside the cage to do my talking.

I never make the same mistake twice. If you catch me slipping one time, good for you, but it ain't gonna happen again.

Starting at age 6, I was helping install the Formica table tops with that strong glue. My dad was the master. I was the apprentice. I'd be in there working until I'd be telling him, 'I feel woozy,' and he'd say, 'Go outside, son.' So I'd go organize his tools. He used the best ones made.

I'm an entertaining fighter.

I show up. I make weight. I'm a professional.

I'm a champion and I fight like a champion with or without that belt.

Now if you play video games all the time and you're a real gamer, you're not going to use the Game Genie, you're not going to use the codes.

I don't follow nobody. If people want to follow me, it's because they see talent.

My fuel for my fire is to be able to provide for my family.

I'm just throwing a name out there, but I think Nate Diaz and myself could actually put on a good show.

We all have to pay our bills. We all have to pay our taxes. Straight up.

I don't fight for anybody else besides myself and my family, so therefore I win.

At the end of the day, does the UFC really like its fighters?

I'm the people's champ.

I've never been much for the accolades and for the trophies and for the merits because at one time in my life I kind of got bored of all those.

Finesse is catching the baseball on the edge of your glove when you're turning two, making the one-handed grabs and shoestring tackles by running across the field in football. And finesse is what I bring to fighting.

If you don't show up, you lose.

We've never had somebody to secure the legacy for the 155-pound division.

I'm gonna be always the main event.

Don't kick me when I'm down.

People want to call me weird, 'cringey.'

I don't want to be around people that bring me down.

All you guys out there that ever got bullied, I'm the guy that's going to help you guys.

The lightweight title will be mine, but I'm looking for multiples and I am looking for that best pound for pound spot.

I don't want to be a cookie-cutter-poster-boy-bubble-gum-chewing fighter.