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Wrestling Quotes by Dana White

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Dana White talks about how UFC fighters are taken care of and why each fight can surprise us. He says the sport isn’t just one move after another, and learning a skill like jiu‑jitsu comes from actually doing it. He also treats fans and fighters like real people, not just headlines.

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Kimbo Slice sucks. He's terrible.

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There will never be a fighters' union. Ever.

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The fighters in the UFC are treated very well.

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Boxing is your father's sport.

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The UFC brand is going to be here for a long time.

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Ronda Rousey is a huge star.

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UFC 151 will be remembered as the event Jon Jones and Greg Jackson murdered.

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I'm a huge Ronda Rousey fan. She's extremely talented. What I like most about her is she's mean and nasty.

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I have the vision for where the sport is gonna go and what we're gonna do and the different types of fights.

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People try to compete with the UFC but we're the best at what we do.

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If you're not that big pay-per-view star, shut up and fight.

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Look, people have been filming fights since the beginning of time.

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I think Cormier's one of the greatest to ever do it. Two-time, two-division world champion.

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I've been in the fight business my whole life. I know fighters.

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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…

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I like Mark Hunt and I've always said good things about Mark Hunt. He goes a little bit off the rails every…

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One of my big philosophies is that fighting is the sport that crosses all borders. I don't care what color you are,…

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When you talk about somebody being your world champion, you couldn't ask for a better human being than Daniel Cormier.

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Look at what George Foreman did to Michael Moorer. No matter his age, he hits so hard that he's always in a…

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There's only so many things you can do with fights, so I'm always trying to shake it up and find something different,…

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At the end of the day, when you're dealing with heavyweights who can punch, anything is possible. When you've got a big…

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All you've ever seen in the UFC was the greatest athletes in the world. Never, ever did we do a freakshow and…

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Joe Lauzon is not seen as the top guy in his division, He's not the champion. Do you know how many people…

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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…

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Kimbo Slice the man, you watch the YouTube videos of this guy in backyards, and they start fighting and you think this…

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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…

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I never have the plan to overtake boxing. I love boxing; I came from boxing.

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Whether boxing is fixable or not remains to be seen. I'm going to give it a shot.

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Really, the way to learn jiu-jitsu is to do it. If you do jiu-jitsu you get it and you learn it.

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We put on fights between the best fighters; we don't put on freak shows.

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The most famous athletes throughout the history of time are fighters.

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Conor McGregor has that fight anybody, anywhere attitude but doesn't just have the attitude, he lives it.

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The reality is this: Fighting isn't a team sport; it's an individual's sport.

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I love this sport. I love the fights and I love most of the guys in it.

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I used to laugh at MMA and say 'do you know what a boxer would do to an MMA guy?' and then…

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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…

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Chuck Liddell loves to fight. That's his passion. That's what he loves in life. But there comes a day and age -…

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This country has been very good to us, every time we have a fight in the UFC it's incredible here in Australia…

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As long as we have enough fighters and fight cards to keep everybody fighting three times a year, that's where I want…

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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…

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Greg Jackson is a sport killer

As an American, you can do whatever you want to do, and you can choose whatever side you want to be on.

The fighters in the UFC are treated very well.

Boxing is very one dimensional. You can hit to the head, you can hit to the body. As soon as two guys get into…

Ronda Rousey is a huge star.

I do everything through Twitter, YouTube or the Internet somehow.

Whatever it is that you're passionate about, whatever it is that you absolutely love, and whatever it is that you would get up out…

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.

You always think as an organization, obviously if you're in sports, you want to be with ESPN. ESPN is it. But you don't really…

I think you take whatever it is that you would do for free and you figure out the way to do it.

I like to have my Pinkberry. I have this one store in midtown Manhattan that will stay open for me late.

I'm not a political guy at all, not even a little bit.

I treat people and I deal with my fighters and I deal with the fans like a real person. I don't come out and…

When there's millions of dollars at stake, everybody is going to look for an advantage.

Am I a little rough around the edges? Do I say things that people don't like sometimes? Do I swear a lot? Yes, yes,…