Top 107 Quotes & Sayings by Wanderlei Silva - Page 2

Almost every single one of my fights was the fight of the night and the public was always interested in watching me compete.

The probability I knock out Chael Sonnen is very big. Man, everybody knows his game. He is never going to take me down and I'm going to break his nose with my knee.

I have other plans, other businesses. I have things to do. But I love to fight. I love this sport.

No gloves cut a bit more, but that's not a problem if you don't fear blood.

We are not like machines; we can't train as fast after years but I feel really happy and I want to give fans a good fight. When I can't do that anymore, I'll stop.

It's sad when a MMA fighter talks to an NFL or NBA player about how much money they make. That's embarrassing. You tell them how much you make and they laugh.

In this profession, you hurt the body a little. It's normal. Part of the job.

I'm so glad we have jobs after fighting. A lot of important fighters before would stop fighting and have nothing left. Today, you can fight and make money in a normal life.

I want Sonnen to feel ashamed of how bad he'll be beaten by me.

With the way things are going now in the UFC, you have to be ready to fight anytime they call you. During war times, you have to keep your guns always clean.

The UFC isn't this whole glamor everybody thinks. They don't pay you right.

Who sees Wanderlei Silva today, with all the marketing, with a good gym and getting paid well to fight, they don't know the difficulties I went through. I went through a lot of hardships in my life.

If you don't want to sweat, stay on the couch.

UFC have the best fighters.

If you open one little gym that has some mats and one bag, you can save lives.

I live in Las Vegas and I like my money, but I don't gamble, but I said to my wife I want to put a $100,000 on Shogun.

The promoter of an event can't take sides. He can't give better conditions to one fighter over the other. Everyone has to be treated with quality.

The athlete needs money to prepare for a fight and to perform well. How are you going to prepare well if you have to have another job to make money?

People love my style because I'm so aggressive.

Everybody has a savage instinct.

It's a dangerous sport, you can get really hurt. God helped me, protected me so I wouldn't have any damage, any serious injury.

I don't use PEDs or steroids, I have never used it and I've never had any problems in that area.

The promotions put fighters against each other, and they don't want to pay anything to them. If you refuse to fight, the promoter shows up - and sometimes he wants to show off more than the fighters. This is a shame.

I have my own money. I don't need to make too much more money where I'm at in my life.

My next step is give opportunities so that guys can train. I watch here in Brazil and we've lost a lot of talent just because guys don't have a membership to the gym. I want to make free gyms in the community.

Sonnen always appeared as the nice guy, consoling his fighters, while my scenes were all of me with ugly face. It was biased.

I'll fight in both divisions, 185 and 205. I feel good. That's a choice for the boss, where Dana wants me to fight. It's no problem.

We have to understand that all geniuses have a crazy side to them.

I am retired, I don't fight anymore, I lost the desire.

I want the MMA fighter to make as much money as the NBA and NFL players. We are as professional as they are, we are on the TV too, but we don't get paid like they do.

I have some issues that I don't know if they will become issues. I have some things in my head, I forget things. I can't turn my head a lot or my brain crashes. I have back and wrist pain.

I've had more than 200 stitches, only in the area of the eyes.

I'm not that type of guy that only accepts a fight when a guy is coming off a win.

I am available to work together with the commission to create clear laws that give the athletes the proper respect. The athletes deserve more respect.

I'm so happy to have my first main event in the UFC.

You need to respect the body. We're not 22, 23 years old. I'm 35.

The truth is that I want to fight in the old Pride rules, I want to kick guys in the face on the ground. With that rule, I think I can fight with anyone.

In Bellator, one guy that I would love to fight is Kimbo. And I'm not going to the ground. I want to fight in his area.

I'll never doubt Anderson Silva.

My style is to go in there... and kill the guy, you know

My style is kneeing people in the face.

I challenged Coleman and he accepted, he said he'd fight me. I pointed at Baroni and challenged him too, he looked at me with a bewildered look on his face and asked: "Me?", I said "Thats right, You!!" I also challenged Quinton Jackson and he looked at me and said "Me too?", and I responded. If you want some, there is some for you too!

War only in the ring. Peace on earth

I apologize to all my fans. I ask for your prayers for a successful surgery and healthy body. I will be back in shape to fight again and to give you more excitement. A big hug for all of you and be with God.

When I see my opponent, I begin to shake uncontrollably. Once he hits me, I think to myself, you just hit Wanderlei Silva, how dare you hit Wanderlei Silva. Then I try to kill them.

Believe in your dreams and work hard for them.

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