Chael Sonnen

“Jose Aldo, this guy's a chicken. I can't even tell you how good Jose Aldo is, but he doesn't think it.”

“There's a camaraderie that comes with this sport, but fighting Anderson Silva is a lot like eating Chinese food: twenty minutes after I do it, I'm going to want to do it again.”

“I love going to the ring hurt or sick or tired and trying to figure out how to win anyway.”

“I train every day but Christmas. I'm not the guy who gets a contract signed and then trains for a fight. I'm at practice every single day, whether I've got a match or not.”

“Very normal trajectory of a fighter's career - you start out fighting at the YMCA. You move on to the dog park. You get into a coliseum. On your way out, you go back to the YMCA, and then you finish up at the dog park.”

“Every time you win, you get another fight. Every time you get a fight, you get promotion, marketing, and media. Those things are what makes stars.”

“I don't walk around looking into cameras and telling people I'm the best fighter in the world just to hear myself talk. I say it for the same reason they put warnings on packages of cigarettes, and fighting Chael Sonnen may be hazardous to one's health.”

“I don't think I've ever had a better experience in the sport than coaching 'The Ultimate Fighter.' I got to do it twice, but I got to really build relationships there that will last forever.”

“Guys always get jealous or envious of an opportunity, but they never wanna walk out to the mound and point to the crowd and tell them where they're going to hit the ball. I will. I'll call my shots.”

“I'm not going to be one of the guys who hangs around if he doesn't have a road to the title.”

“Ronda's a very basic and straightforward fighter. However, she's a masterful competitor.”

“I love the U.S.A.”

“I listen to these pundits all the time breaking down Trump - 'He's brash, and he's bold, and he's successful' - and none of those are what it is. There's one word to sum it up, and it's courage. He has courage.”

“Lance Armstrong did a number of things, and he gave himself cancer.”

“It doesn't matter if I'm a rival of Anderson Silva's or not; I'm also very objective. And I'm not going to take something from a guy that he earned. Anderson Silva earned the right to be called the greatest of all time. And those are just the facts.”

“Nobody wants to fight Brian Stann. I'm not the only guy, and that's not a big secret.”

“Werdum's open to being knocked out in any fight because he's so reckless, but that's also what makes him so damn dynamic.”

“I have never asked the crowd for their approval, and I will never start.”

“Triangle chokes are the refuge for cowards. I would never stoop to that level of locking my legs around a man and squeezing.”

“There are rules that say 'If a fighter gets old, when a fighter slows down, when a fighter stops looking the same, then he can never come back.' I don't like that.”