Church Quote by Chris Weidman

I wrestled in high school, but I wasn't an All-American.

— Ovince Saint Preux

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've always seen myself as an all-American kid, you know. You're not just white or black or Asian or Latino. We're in the melting…

— Charles Melton

I don't train to be an All-American. I train to be the best.

— Colby Covington

Everything that I have is because I live in America. If I was in Iran, I wouldn't be in the UFC... But, I came…

— Beneil Dariush

It's like since I've been into the MMA world, I've always had people wanting to pull me in all these different directions, and I'm…

— Mackenzie Dern

At first, whenever I first got into the UFC, I was like, 'oh my God, I'm in the UFC.' When you come from where…

— Derrick Lewis

MMA is a sport. We go out here and we do battle. Everybody has family, friends, they train really hard.

— Derek Brunson

I'm an all-American girl.

— Jordan Pruitt

When I looked at the state of women's MMA, what I saw was that it was missing rivalries or anything theatrical about it. Everybody…

— Ronda Rousey

When I grew older and went my own way, MMA kind of stuck with me. I got to the point where I wanted to…

— Brad Tavares

I got into MMA because I wanted to show my kids that they could be an athlete, that they could push themselves in whatever…

— Travis Browne