Alexander Volkanovski

“I'm chasing my contenders. I'm talking about that GOAT status.”

“Some people fight and stuff outside the cage, but I never liked that sort of thing. I just always wanted to do martial arts and I finally did it at 22 years old, so later in life, but it's all good.”

“I don't want to be known as a guy who's gonna get decisions.”

“When it comes to cardio, we know I don't have a problem.”

“You see what I can use in my range, even with tall people, imagine what I could do to someone half my size.”

“A lot of times we're being portrayed as thugs, but anyone who really knows us understand that we work hard, we diet hard, the commitment is full on. But alot of people don't see that. Some of the nicest and most respectful people I've ever met are in this sport. I truly believe that, and there's a lot of fighters that live by that.”

“I'm the type of person, I'll fight whoever.”

“My right-hand hit is my favourite.”

“Ground and pound is my thing, everyone knows that.”

“I just really like ground and pound. The way I do it, it looks like I'm just throwing bombs, but there's some technique to it too. I make sure I'm controlling the hips, palming his face to the ground, just little things like this that make sure that the ground and pound works and I'm not letting him tie me up to where I can't throw punches.”

“I just want to work my game and I believe I can do that.”

“I'm going to be a great champion.”

“I wrestled before rugby league so I always had a pretty good wrestling background, a good base, and that helped with my football. It just meant my balance was always so good; a strong core, good hips and just things like that just really played a factor in how I ran the ball and tackled.”

“Robert Whittaker has really opened eyes, look what he's doing.”

“I've pictured myself fighting a whole bunch of people. Not only the Max Holloway, but also Conor, Cejudo, Korean Zombie, even Khabib Nurmagomedov.”

“You know I am all about the good guys, but sometimes we get put to the back of the line because we are too nice.”

“I've already took out the hardest guys in my division. Back to back we've got Chad Mendes, Aldo, and Max. Stylistically, they were the three hardest fights.”

“When it comes to power, we know I got power, and we know I can wrestle.”

“One of my biggest fan bases is probably Macedonians, they always get behind me. They're always hitting me up on Facebook speaking Macedonian to me which I don't understand, so I get my dad to translate it for me.”

“I've always loved UFC. I watched it back since the days it wasn't big in Australia at all, and you had to watch a Blockbuster videos. They would always come like a year late, but I tried as many of the live ones I could or wait for the videos to come out. So, I've loved the sport for that long. I've always been into martial arts.”