Wrestling Quotes by Ryan Bader

I'm working on my boxing. I hope people see that.

— Ryan Bader

I can control my performance and how I fight.

— Ryan Bader

I think ultimately the fans want to see knockouts.

— Ryan Bader

I want to have a belt somewhere.

— Ryan Bader

It took me a while to believe I could be a champion.

— Ryan Bader

I learned boxing and jiu-jitsu from the ground up.

— Ryan Bader

I was pretty one-dimensional, a wrestler.

— Ryan Bader

I'm not in the UFC to be mediocre.

— Ryan Bader

I believe I can beat everybody at every division, I truly do.

— Ryan Bader

I came from Arizona State, where I wrestled. I have a family. I'm married.

— Ryan Bader

It really wasn't until halfway through my career that I learned had to jab and to box and to kickbox.

— Ryan Bader

I know Stipe, I trained with him a little bit. He's a good guy but I feel I match up with him…

— Ryan Bader

My whole style of wrestling is I like to use the truck double. It's basically a tackle for MMA.

— Ryan Bader

Some fighters don't like to travel when they fight but I fought in Australia and I loved it.

— Ryan Bader

I grew up in a bracket sport, in wrestling. You win, that does the talking, you move on.

— Ryan Bader

We came up in that - keep your mouth shut, let your hard work do the talking, and I came into MMA…

— Ryan Bader

I think it's one of the more underrated careers out there. A lot of times it wasn't the flashiest stuff, but I've…

— Ryan Bader

We get stereotyped as MMA fighters as being barbarian and trying to hurt people. A lot of us are college-educated, like myself.

— Ryan Bader

I don't think I need to pick a weight class. I feel like I'm that perfect in between. I have the strength,…

— Ryan Bader

I remember standing across from Rampage Jackson when I was younger - I watched him when I was coming up - and…

— Ryan Bader

I think 205 is the place for me. I walk around at 225, 230 at the most, and that's kind of small…

— Ryan Bader

After I started training with some of the best in the world and fighting in the UFC, I started really wanting fights…

— Ryan Bader

I was very new to the sport when I entered 'The Ultimate Fighter' and basically got by on my athletic ability and…

— Ryan Bader

I got to a point I was so focused on getting a title shot all the thought in my head was to…

— Ryan Bader

Lil' Nog had some trouble with Jason Brilz primarily because he put a scramble into every position he had. Nogueira would be…

— Ryan Bader

I'm not taking anything away from DC. He carries himself well, is a champion, a stud athlete, an unbelievable fighter and it'd…

— Ryan Bader

I definitely followed him. Coming up, if you wanted to see some fights on YouTube, you pulled up Fedor. His tenacity, aggression…

— Ryan Bader

There will always be something down there that says, 'All right, you won the Bellator title but you never won the UFC…

— Ryan Bader

I won 'The Ultimate Fighter.'

— Ryan Bader

I believe I'm one fight away at all times from getting a title shot and being up there.

— Ryan Bader

When I get into the Octagon I look at it as another sparring session kind of.

— Ryan Bader

I've fought on 'The Ultimate Fighter' in front of 30-40 people, and I kinda like that. There's no distractions.

— Ryan Bader

Jon Jones is a dynamic fighter, he's very exciting, he's been going out there and beating people convincingly.

— Ryan Bader

Look, I love the UFC and I love fighting in the UFC. Gotta make sense, though.

— Ryan Bader

Years and years ago, Jon Jones was untouchable. You couldn't win a round against him.

— Ryan Bader

I get wanting to fight in the UFC. I got my start there. I fought 20 times there.

— Ryan Bader

I've fallen short in my career, in MMA, but it is what it is. You're going to do that. I just wanted…

— Ryan Bader

The wrestling community is a tight community, I love you all.

— Ryan Bader

In college wrestling we had to make weight every weekend, so it's not bad at all. I get it off easily.

— Ryan Bader

You can call Roy Nelson a wrestler, but he's never fought a dynamic, explosive wrestler.

— Ryan Bader