I'm a dirty south goon - damn right, I ain't no West coast gangster.
Jorge Masvidal
My mom would get up every day at 4 A.M. and worked two jobs. I always felt I was the poorest kid on the block. I had a chip on my shoulder about being broke.
In every fight the strategy is to baptize and take their soul - that's always the strategy.
My job is to hit somebody until the referee pulls me off.
I'm the type of guy if you say something right now, whenever I see you, I'm going to hold you to that.
When I get anxiety and depression and things like that, I take to eating.
My coaches know when it's a big fight, I'm at the gym because if they give me some pretender, another actor, I might not take it.
I never care about my opponents, especially now - I care about 'Gamebred' and 'Gamebred' is only going for the off button.
I feel like if they added a few weight classes it wouldn't change up the dynamics of the sport. You can still have champions and it wouldn't be like boxing. Boxing got messed up, because they've got so many belts, so many unifications. It's crazy.
My body of work speaks for itself.
A fight is usually longer than five seconds.
Usually with my opponents, I don't care if they win the lottery or they die.
I'm here to compete and to keep beating people up.
Not that everybody needs to be Georges St-Pierre, but it would be cool if everybody was just themselves.
At any given moment, if I see my bully, the guy who's trying to conquer me, we're going to find out. And if we could fight every time we came across each other, we would.
I move my head. I don't get hit.
I don't come from this technology world.
It's a blessing and a curse. I feel like I've gotta fight every dude that stepped foot on 'The Ultimate Fighter.'
Ben Askren had never been knocked out when I got a hold of him.
I've never tapped in my whole entire career.
I want the biggest fight, no matter where it's at.
I just want to fight the best guys that there is in the world and make the most money out of it.
Nobody is taking my lunch money.
The more I tour the world, the more I see that people are just like me. They love violence.
I've got a big buzz going on because I'm known and put people to sleep.
I'm not involved in too many wars, where I'm just constantly getting hit, hit, hit.
I'm a guy who's in there everyday with world-class grapplers feeling that pressure.
You guys might not know who Yves Edwards is, if you don't, shame on you, go do some research.
Back in the day, you used to have to fight three or four fights in one night with no dodging nobody, and that's what the sport got built on.
I've got more mat hours than most of the guys who are grapplers got on the mat.
I just like to fight, man. The place doesn't really bother me.
The bigger the fight, the better.
Nobody has ever wanted - they get forced to fight Yoel. Ask anybody.
I always cheer for my MMA brothers and sisters.
When you're up-and-coming in your career, yes, maybe you have to dodge certain guys. 'Hey, my wrestling isn't good yet, let me get it on-point and then I'll come back there,' or, 'I'm not going to fight that guy right now,' because whatever, when you're up-and-coming. But once you're already at the top of your game, you're in there, man. That's it.
I didn't get a lot of questions asked earlier in my career, I guess. But I've always been the same guy, more or less.
It's simple, I'm a fighter, but on top of that I have to entertain the people.
I've never pulled out of a fight.
I never think past any man, because every guy has two hands and every dude wants to hurt you.
I'm not going to kill my body, my lifestyle just to go to '55.
The things that I rely on, USADA doesn't have a problem with them. I'm gonna continue to be the same athlete that I've always been.
You know I could get hit with a baseball bat and it don't mean nothing.
I'm not Ben Askren or a lot of these fighters. I've never called a reporter like, hey, I want to be on your show, book me, you know?
I want to put money away in the bank.
I want to fight the guys that are world-class beaters. That's who I want to get in there with.
I'm not a sock-em, rock-em type of guy.
I've been fighting professionally since I was 18, and I've been doing three or four fights a year, just doing camp after camp.
I've been fighting in people's backyards my whole life.
I don't want to fight no up-and-coming guy, no guy that's 15-0 but hasn't faced anybody yet.
Askren is that dude I'm not losing in any universe to.
