A biography for Glover Teixeirahasn’t been written yet.
“A true champion is a true champion. They go fight and win or lose, give it their all.”
“I have this mentality that I have to be prepared for everything.”
“Good conditioning helps you prepare your muscles, so I make sure I'm always strict with my conditioning.”
“We never want anything bad to happen, especially to an athlete like Jon Jones.”
“Jon Jones is at the top for a long time, can't say enough about him.”
“I want to be remembered as a fighter who gives it his all.”
“The way people train is the most dangerous thing because we train, like, everyday.”
“Cormier is an excellent fighter.”
“McGregor sells the show and fights well, he's a real athlete who doesn't get out of shape and is always training.”
“In boxing, you have the 10-second count but we don't have it in MMA, and that's what makes this sport better.”
“I'm not greedy - I have a pretty good life. I don't have an expensive lifestyle, so I can make my living teaching classes at my gym.”
“I just keep getting better and keep learning. Keep an open mind, and live in the moment, and love what I do. Discipline myself, and hard work.”
“It's a dream of mine to win the division's belt.”
“I don't like fights that go to decision.”
“This sport is brutal. This sport is a hard sport.”
“I was always a hard worker, and that's why I got invited to come to America. My uncle actually said, 'You've to go to America. You work like this in America, you're gonna make a lot more money.'”
“I used to love martial arts movies starring Bruce Lee and Jean Claude Van Damme. In one of Van Damme's movies, he would break a pine tree. I would kick banana trees because I used to live on a farm. My father would get mad at me because I would break all of the banana trees around.”
“To err is human, but to persist in the mistake is ugly.”
“It's important to have the right strategy. I can't commit to things or fight like I used to. I can't just bang it out. I have to be more intelligent in training and in fighting.”
“To be honest, I'm not the kind of guy to think about the future in the long term.”