Anything can be changed. Anything can be fixed. Things that are broken can be fixed. And you don't have to be some billionaire or millionaire to do it. You just have to be a person with a vision and the passion to do it, and be willing to fight for it every day.
Dana White
Nothing comes easy. Success doesn't just drop on your lap. You have to go out and fight for it every day.
The amount of negativity I hear on a daily basis is unbelievable. But that's the kind of stuff you have to tune out, focus, stick with your vision and keep plugging every day.
I was a bellman - a great hotel, five-star hotel in Boston. I made great money. I made cash every day. I had good benefits. We had 401k. All the things you could ask for in a great job, I had. You know what I didn't have? I hated my job.
I never have the plan to overtake boxing. I love boxing; I came from boxing.
I swear to God, if my kids, when they're 18, if they come to me and say, 'Dad, I love pumping gas. I love getting up in the morning, I love grabbing the handle, I love the smell of the gas station,' I'd say, 'Go for it,' because if you love it that much at 18, he's probably going to end up owning 25 gas stations by the time he's 30.
We put on fights between the best fighters; we don't put on freak shows.
It's unbelievable how good Jon Jones really is. It's the minute he steps out of the octagon, you never know what's going to happen.
Listen, I've been wrong before, and I'll be wrong again.
As an American, you can do whatever you want to do, and you can choose whatever side you want to be on.
It's not like I'm going to go out and change the world and convert everyone into MMA fans. There's going to be fans out there who are fans of combat sports and fans of contact sports but not everybody's going to be converted.
With my fighters, there's no excuses like, 'Hey, listen, he's a dumb guy. Came from the mean streets of somewhere. He's just not all that bright.' These are educated guys, most of them went to college, they have families, children, etc. These are smart, rational people I'm dealing with.
We're all entitled to make mistakes. I'm not one of these guys where if you make a mistake, I'm gonna try to tear your life down and burn it to the ground.
People try to compete with the UFC but we're the best at what we do.
I like most of the guys in the sport. They're my friends. We're not going to mistreat the fighters. I wouldn't mistreat a friend and so I won't mistreat my fighters.
I like to have my Pinkberry. I have this one store in midtown Manhattan that will stay open for me late.
When Georges St-Pierre goes away, what's going to happen to the UFC? Uh-oh, when Anderson Silva is gone, what's going to happen?' The answer is: Yes, there are other stars.
If you get into something that you're passionate about, and if you really believe in it, you gotta get up every day and fight.
The thing where I've always been lucky is, I knew exactly what I wanted to do.
I'm nice to everybody, I respect other people. If you respect me, I respect you.
Outdoor stadiums scare me to death.
The UFC brand is going to be here for a long time.
The thing about Twitter is it goes directly to your phone like I sent you a text. It's so powerful, it's unbelievable.
I've had a great relationship with Fox since Day 1. Fox was the network that I wanted to be on.
One thing I can't prove, but I firmly believe is that two men were put on this earth - one threw a punch and a third guy came over and watched. And that happened before anybody ever threw or kicked a ball.
I love talking directly to the fans.
Look at what George Foreman did to Michael Moorer. No matter his age, he hits so hard that he's always in a fight.
I don't dislike Matt Lindland. I didn't blackball him from the UFC, either. Matt Lindland is a good guy and I've never had a personal issue with him.
There's a little bit of me that's Republican, and there's a little bit of me that's Democratic. I believe in taking care of people that don't have, I believe in taking care of the planet, you know, all that type of stuff.
We're going to continue to go into markets that we've never been in, continue to grow the sport, continue to cultivate talent and the whole landscape of television is changing and I feel like we're ahead of the curve on that, too.
I've been in the fight business my whole life. I know fighters.
I'm not homophobic and I'm not anti-gay.
Nevada is a very scary place. This is the worst commission on the planet. I am afraid to bring fights to Las Vegas.
As far as women fighting in MMA, I don't like it when the division isn't deep. I don't like to see a woman who's so much better than everybody else smashing other women. That's tough to watch.
I do everything through Twitter, YouTube or the Internet somehow.
I like guys to stay at their weight classes and dominate. I don't want guys moving up and down.
We make dream fights all the time.
If somebody doesn't want to show up for a press conference I'll pull them from the card.
I'd rather have too many good guys than not enough. It's a nice problem. They sort themselves out because when guys fight each other, they determine who deserves the title shot, not me.
Whoever you are, this is America. You can believe or do whatever you want.
If you're not that big pay-per-view star, shut up and fight.
I have the vision for where the sport is gonna go and what we're gonna do and the different types of fights.
I love this sport. I love the fights and I love most of the guys in it.
Kimbo Slice sucks. He's terrible.
It used to be that we weren't even allowed on TV or pay-per-view, so we always spoke to our fans through the Internet.
Whether boxing is fixable or not remains to be seen. I'm going to give it a shot.
Look, people have been filming fights since the beginning of time.
When you have a concept and a sport like this, you have to have a vision.
You'll never hear me say a negative thing about Donald Trump.
I think Cormier's one of the greatest to ever do it. Two-time, two-division world champion.
