A biography for Gegard Mousasihasn’t been written yet.
“My goal was never to be the best. I always wanted to make my money, and, of course, I always wanted to win my fight. Because if you keep winning, people got to say 'yeah, he is the best middleweight.' But to be honest I don't care.”
“With me, somehow because I've been fighting outside the UFC, I still have to prove myself.”
“When you lose, you learn a lot more.”
“Luke Rockhold is the guy I want to face.”
“After doing boxing a little bit, I knew that I wanted to achieve what the other boxers were achieving: the championship and whatever comes with the championships.”
“I always thought I would be a boxing champion.”
“The UFC has too many rules, it doesn't make it better.”
“People are stupid, what can I say. They don't know who's a real fighter or not.”
“Iranian people are very hospitable, very family-oriented and besides that they have a very beautiful country.”
“If I would fight Michael Bisping, I would be the favorite. Everybody knows that.”
“With the UFC it's like, you make okay money, and only if you're the champion do you make good money. So they're keeping the fighters deliberately poor so they'll keep fighting.”
“I've trained with Douglas Lima, he's a tough kid, but I could feel the weight difference.”
“It's an advantage for me fighting in Japan. I'm familiar there. I have friends there. I've been fighting so long there.”
“People always say I'm a bad loser.”
“I'm fighting to get paid. I'm not doing this because I love the sport so much. I'm not a crazy person.”
“Men have to stay strong. 'They fight, it's normal. Females don't have that instinct.”
“A fight is a fight. You can have any style.”
“A wrestler will always be a wrestler, and they will always go back to the basics.”
“Beating a guy like Bader, that's a big thing.”
“I was born in Iran, my parents are Armenian. We fled from Iran to the Netherlands when I was eight years old. We had a lot of family and friends in Iran, so it was hard to leave, especially for my parents. But we managed to settle well in the Netherlands, after a year in refugee camps. But I understood it was a process.”