Athletes Quote by Wanderlei Silva

Some fighters think they're athletes and it's a sport. I know I'm athletic, but I'm a fighter first.

— Cody Garbrandt

I've seen some folks with Olympic backgrounds go into combat sports and it just not being for them. You know, doing Judo or something…

— Josh Barnett

No matter what the circumstances are, we the fighters need to speak up and make it be known we want to fight each other.…

— Terence Crawford

If fans are willing to pay to see you fight, the promoter is happy.

— Kamaru Usman

If you want to get the big fights, if you want to make money, you've got to make sure the fans want to see…

— Jon Fitch

People compete. Sometimes it gets heated, sometimes it doesn't. That's for when you're on the field.

— Trent Williams

That's the beauty of fighting sports, the fighters need to go out there without really knowing if they're winning, if they're losing, or if…

— Al Iaquinta

In MMA, you're trained to tune the audience out. In sports entertainment, you're trained to feed off what the audience is thinking and feeling.

— Shayna Baszler

I would always rather be in the arena fighting than be a spectator.

— Evel Knievel

As fighters, we pretty much only get paid when we fight, and it's on us to get sponsors to help in the in-between with…

— Brad Tavares

Fighting is different than other sports because you're not competing as regularly.

— Michael Bisping

It's good for your career as a sportsman if you watch other professional sports - how they're behaving and how they react in difficult…

— Michael Ballack