I'm more than a fighter and not just a pretty face.
Roy Nelson
I don't care if I win or lose; I know I'm going to give 110%, and I'm going to hold my head high at the end of the day.
Do I want a shot at the belt? Yes, of course I do. Put it this way: I am Barry Sanders on the Detroit Lions. You love to watch me, but you'll never see me play in the Super Bowl. It's just one of those things. It's about politics. It's not about fighting.
The one thing that always sucks about me is that I'm just a fighter, and I just love to fight.
With boxing, sometimes you'll watch the first three rounds, then you'll change the channel and turn it back in the 10th round. With MMA, you have to watch all 15 minutes. You'll want to watch every second.
Some athletes can master two sports, but most are only good at one.
I'm just a fat guy.
A lot of people out there are bullies, and they pick on people and call people names. You need to grow up from that, and you need to become a better person.
I think what it is, is that fighters have become business people. I actually love what I'm doing. When you're a business person, sometimes you think of it as, 'Ah, it's work.' I love what I do, but then, on the other end, some guys do this as a living.
I think the WWE is a great place for professional athletes. Floyd Mayweather did it. Mike Tyson has done it. Even Donald Trump has appeared in the ring.
I relate more to 90 percent of America because I look like 'em, act like 'em. I'm not above anybody; I put my pants on the same way. Some guys try to live up to their persona. I'm just me.
The only thing that's going to be more epic than Roy Nelson fighting Mark Hunt is Roy Nelson fighting for the belt. Those are two fights that I know fans want to see.
One of the things in marriage is you have to understand what appreciation is about, and that'll keep me for longevity. That's why my fans love me, because I appreciate them. Because with no fans, there would be no sport, no fighting for me, no UFC, no Bellator, no Rizin; there'd be nothing without the fans.
I always thought the best part about sports was the bigger, faster kids who were supposed to be more athletic than me - I always beat.
TV makes you look taller and fatter.
There's a difference between business acquaintances and friends. I consider a friend any time we eat together at the same restaurant, or he's eaten at my house, or I've eaten at his house.
You learn from your mistakes, and you grow from them.
If you go into 'The Ultimate Fighter' and you're just gonna go in there to get just one fight and win... the premise is to win the whole thing. When I went in, I wanted to win the thing or be cut.
I just don't want to be one of those guys that's stuck fighting the same opponents again and again.
We handle it from both sides of the coin: from the sport aspect and the entertainment aspect. You gotta have both because we're if not doing solid ratings, we're not going to be on TV.
I really enjoyed playing rugby. I loved the camaraderie with the other athletes. It was kind of like fighting. Team fighting.
I'd fight anyone I've ever lost to.
I am a student first, teacher second.
MMA has a lot of those things that you're not allowed to talk about; like, they're completely off-limits. So you have to make a joke out of it.
You have all that muscle on you, you're going to get tired. That's why I prefer to be fat.
All I know is that Stipe gave me inspiration because if Stipe can be that UFC champion, and they actually gave him a title shot, then I'm like, 'Ah, I do have a chance.'
I like to actually fight. It's just in my blood.
Carwin, he seems like he trains for five one-minute rounds. That's his championship fight, apparently.
Conor McGregor has a beard because of me, because I'm the one who allowed it. If it wasn't for me, none of these guys would have a beard. The same thing with the belly. Fighters who don't look like bodybuilders wouldn't be in the UFC if it wasn't for me. There's a lot of things I've definitely paved the road for.
If you made the choice to get in there and fight, you have to accept accountability for whatever happens.
I just want to be agreeable; I want to be a pleaser. And that's all I want to do. I want to please the fans or the haters. One or the other.
I'm not a UFC athlete. I'm a UFC fighter.
On any given day, I know on any given day I can beat anyone else and knock out anyone else out.
I guess everybody is doing a movie thing, so I'm doing the 'Scorpion King 4.' My role in the movie is as one of the king's guards, with a very original name: Roykus. Apparently, back in the day, everybody's name was 'us,' so 'Roy' plus 'us,' and put a little 'k' in there: Roykus. I'm one of the royal guards, and I do my own stunts like Jackie Chan.
I only fight clean fighters. I'll fight anybody in the UFC that's clean. Or dirty. Or clean.
For me, having pneumonia and losing to Mir doesn't sit well.
Everybody hates a whiner.
I think WWE is a great.
What's wrong with being a two-sport athlete? You've got Deion Sanders. You've got Bo Jackson. You've got Michael Jordan; he wasn't a very good baseball player. There's nothing wrong with crossing over.
You'd prefer to fight somebody that you really would rather derail their whole career.
I just remember I used to go to each tournament to make a couple bucks. I did as a living thing; I got paid to do martial arts, so I'd go to these jiu-jitsu tournaments and make, like, $1000 every time I won the tournament.
The one thing about the heavyweight division or, actually, just being in the UFC, anybody can win, and anybody can lose. You're competing with the best in the world.
Stipe's one of the top guys in the UFC. He wouldn't be in the UFC if he wasn't one of the best in the world.
For me, the biggest thing with Overeem, he's a K-1 champ, Strikeforce champ, DREAM champ, you name it. He's had every belt in there.
I stopped trying to think about how the UFC operates. It's like trying to understand a woman.
A good wrestler, with good jiu jitsu and great boxing, can beat Fedor.
I've coached UFC champions and stuff before I ever started fighting.
Do I have fat cells on my body? Everybody has fat cells. Do I have more than most other athletes? Probably.
There are athletes out there trying to get every advantage they can, including things like muscle and low-fat percentages. I feel if I'm the better fighter, I'm the better fighter.
If you paid me $2 million, I'm sure I could lose my belly. But I don't get paid to look a certain way. I get paid to win fights. That's what I concentrate on.
