A biography for Alexander Gustafssonhasn’t been written yet.
“If you just train because you have to train, it's not the right reasons.”
“For me to train good, I need a goal.”
“It's hard to just go one day from another to being one of the best fighters in the world to just stop doing what you love to do.”
“A win is a win, but a decision for me is not an option any more.”
“In the past when I'd made my 33 lbs weight cut there would always be some small injury, my back, my knee or something else.”
“I'll fight anyone, it doesn't matter to me.”
“I think motocross is a much more dangerous sport than what we do. These guys are flying through the air at high speeds rising their lives. What we do in the octagon is not even close to what these guys do on the course.”
“A loss is always a loss.”
“I try to get better with every fight - my boxing, my wrestling, my jiu-jitsu, everything.”
“I try to understand the sport more and more as I develop, and I try to be a better fighter overall and work on everything, not just every aspect, I try to combine it too. I work on it every day, and I try to be a better fighter in every practice.”
“Even wrestling, now, I wear the helmet all the time. I'm not going to make that mistake again ever in my life.”
“I've never been a talker. I've never been a good salesman when it comes to selling fights.”
“DC is tough and he's such a good athlete. I think he's better at heavyweight than he is at light heavyweight. I think he's stronger, he can eat and he doesn't have to stress about the weight.”
“One day you are on the top, the other day you're on the bottom. That's how it works.”
“I'm an athlete, so giving a suit a casual look is important to me. Sometimes I wear sneakers with my suit or I will wear a blazer, tie and collared shirt with jeans.”
“I'm such a self-critic, that I find it hard to give myself credit for something.”
“I do not want to be a journeyman.”
“I've got my speed, my precision. I have tools. I'm going to use them.”
“When you're fighting a guy like DC, he's just coming in and pushes you. You have to push him back.”
“I tend to keep my suit look casual but I like a good pocket square. It can change the look of any suit and give it an 'old school' feel. My preference is to make the square unique - different from the tie and suit color, so it really pops.”