Ben Askren

I like coaching a lot.

— Ben Askren

I'm open to a super fight.

— Ben Askren

I'm going to win a gold medal.

— Ben Askren

Nate Diaz sucks.

— Ben Askren

I just like taunting people.

— Ben Askren

One of my best qualities is my persistence.

— Ben Askren

I try to wrestle one time a week with good, solid people.

— Ben Askren

I don't really want to be famous.

— Ben Askren

I've been around the block. I travel a lot to gyms.

— Ben Askren

I just don't get hit a lot. That's what I'm good at.

— Ben Askren

Colby Covington is an idiot. He is so stupid.

— Ben Askren

If your coach ain't got your back, who's got your back?

— Ben Askren

I don't try to hide my feelings or what I think.

— Ben Askren

Man, I competed 40 times in three months when I was wrestling, my whole life.

— Ben Askren

I've got more skills in my pinky finger than half the damn guys in the UFC.

— Ben Askren

I think Georges St-Pierre should go down to fight Tyron Woodley. I think he has a chance.

— Ben Askren

I speak plainly, I don't beat around the bush, and I'm just genuine.

— Ben Askren

As long as I'm speaking the truth, I'm going to be OK with what I'm saying. That's kind of how I've lived…

— Ben Askren

If you think about who retires during their prime, the number of athletes who do that is very small.

— Ben Askren

One of the big things is I try not to worry about things I can't control.

— Ben Askren

I'll sell a million pay-per-views if you're smart enough to market me the right way.

— Ben Askren

I don't care about having a fancy car. I don't have a lot of the wants and needs that a lot of…

— Ben Askren

Listen folks, if you want your son to grow up to be a man, don't have him run around on a field…

— Ben Askren

Andrey Koreshkov is not well-rounded. He's been taken down and mounted and has his back taken by Lyman Good, which tells me…

— Ben Askren

I don't think the number of followers has anything to do with how good I am fighting. That said, I am good…

— Ben Askren

It's just funny because I think a long time back I was not a fan favorite at all, and now people have…

— Ben Askren

When I'm thinking of sports, when I'm thinking of a boy growing up and being a man, I'm thinking of three things…

— Ben Askren

Colby Covington has a very low IQ. He says a lot of stupid things, and it's almost embarrassing that he represents our…

— Ben Askren

In wrestling, if you want to be the best wrestler, you show up at the U.S. Nationals. If you win that, you…

— Ben Askren

A Division I college wrestling team has so many guys at such a high level it'd be like having every single guy…

— Ben Askren

There are conferences every year where all the major coaches get together, and they talk about the issues in wrestling, what's going…

— Ben Askren

When I couldn't sign with the UFC, I think my goal of being Number 1 in the world went out the window.…

— Ben Askren

Young guys kind of have this chip on their shoulder of, 'I want to prove something,' right? 'I've got to prove how…

— Ben Askren

So I think there's a lot of people who are really interested to see how good I really am, because they know…

— Ben Askren

I'm just a straightforward kind of dude.

— Ben Askren

I'm dominant positionally, and my hands got power.

— Ben Askren

I have nothing against Bellator at all.

— Ben Askren

I fight with good strikers every day.

— Ben Askren

I have a really hard time with people telling me what to do.

— Ben Askren

I'm not hugely monetarily motivated.

— Ben Askren