God gave me the power. God showed me the way. He helps me and gives me support and it's my job to get that message out.
Charles Oliveira
I'm ready to fight anyone, top 10, top 5... I deserve a chance at the belt.
Will Brooks is a very tough guy. He's an ex-champ and beat very tough guys. The same way I fought very tough guys.
Everything in life has its perfect moments.
I don't think about winning a bonus, I think about putting on a good fight and, if God blesses me, I will win the bonus.
I ended up moving up to lightweight, which I didn't want, and fought a really tough guy, Will Brooks, and beat him like nothing.
I know a lot of people will talk crap at me, but they can say whatever they want.
I'm staying lighter because I want to go back to 145.
I'm almost certain that no one at featherweight or lightweight wants to go to the ground with me.
I'm working hard not only during training, but also studying English to talk to the crowd and respond by myself during interviews.
If I could I would fight every week.
When I get in the cage I am smiling because I am having fun.
I injured my neck in training, but did physical therapy and thought everything was fine, but when I fell against the cage everything went numb, I couldn't feel my body.
I have fun when I fight, and I am going to have a lot of crazy moves.
Jim Miller is an important fight for me. It's just like any other fight, but it's important for me because Jim Miller was the first guy to defeat me.
I do not think UFC gives wrestling of the night bonus.
I had no easy fights ever since I joined the UFC.
I showed that once again a guy from the 'favela,' from the community, it taking over the world.
I fought three opponents in one night two or three times, but never five rounds.
I practiced everything, from my BJJ to wrestling, judo and Muay Thai.
Actually, 2016 wasn't a good year for me, as I didn't get any wins. But I started to feel things would get better when I found out about the pregnancy. I'm very happy, this is a new chapter of my life and I'm sure I'll win and dedicate it to my daughter and my family.
I rested only two days after my loss to Jim Miller.
There's no denying it, I'm one of the best in the world, the belt's going to be mine.
I'll fight anyone. I've never turned down a fight in the UFC, and I'm here to fight.
If someone ever says I had an easy fight in the UFC, they are lying.
My team never let it go up in my head that I am a record holder.
I think the only thing that happened when I fought Jim Miller is that I was a just kid, he had way more experience. I was winning the fight, landing punches and trying to get 10 submissions at the same time, and Jim Miller went for one attack only, a kneebar, and got it. His experience made the difference.
Yes, everyone at UFC are very nice.
I have a great jiu-jitsu game and I'm awesome at submissions.
In the division, yeah, I believe I have the best ground game.
I don't have to rush the fight. I have five rounds to win.
I love it here, 145 pounds is my division.
I'm going to take it step by step to get my belt.
I came into the UFC five years ago and I was a kid. Now I'm becoming a man in there.
Anyone that is in the UFC, if you don't have a dream for the title, you're in the wrong sport. You can leave.
I dream of getting to the belt. I know I'm gonna get there. I'm gonna be the champion.
I want to get the belt at 145-pounds.
I have to talk to my team, but I want to stay at 145-pounds. It's my division and I feel more comfortable there.
I'm here to put on a show.
I had a shoulder injury and the pandemic helped me take some time off to recover 100 percent, and the UFC took some time off, too.
I called out Conor McGregor, but it didn't work.
I'm in my best moment, seven straight wins, five by submission, two by knockout. I don't ever leave it in the hands of the judges.
I think I would have a war against Dustin Poirier, because of his style. Tony Ferguson, too.
Only I know how hard I trained. I left my family, my girlfriend, and the people I love in Brazil to train in the United States with 'Macaco' five or six times a day.
I don't come with the goal of submitting, knocking out or getting bonuses. I come to do my job, to show that a humble guy can chase what he wants.
I'm the best there is in jiu-jitsu.
I will do my best all the time.
I'm a professional fighter. My game plan is to fight standing up and to fight on the ground.
The future belongs to God.
I fought Swanson when I was injured and I shouldn't have but I wanted to.
