A biography for Leon Edwardshasn’t been written yet.
“I would love to bring the UFC back to Birmingham.”
“My mid-teens were my darkest years.”
“I'm from the trenches, I'm built like this.”
“When you're playing outside in Jamaica and you hear gunshots, you don't run and hide. You just look, and if it's nowhere near you, you carry on with your day.”
“To think I didn't know where Utah was, and now it's stuck in my life forever.”
“You can't keep an old monarchy in 2021. You can't do that. They need to come up-to-date with the times.”
“I know fighters that don't like to be emotional, especially on camera. They think they should be tough all the time. But I think if you're comfortable being emotional, that's the toughest thing you can do as a man.”
“I have kids and I'd like to leave them better off. A sport career is not a long career. When you make money, you want to invest it where you see fit. Hopefully you can retire before the fight game retires you.”
“I have fought everybody. I have offered to fight everybody.”
“I've become accustomed to knowing when I'm overtraining by recognizing the signs when I'm sleeping or how I'm feeling when I'm waking up, I can read my body well.”
“I feel a knockout is much better than a submission.”
“I trust in my journey and my team.”
“My mum signed me up to an MMA gym to keep me off the street to keep me out of trouble. And I used it to change our family's future.”
“I went through a stage in my career when I was thinking, 'Why is everyone overlooking me?' But I've been used to that since I was a kid and it's fine. I keep chipping away, I keep winning, and that's all I keep doing.”
“I think that's part of the U.K. There's racism, but it's very hush racism, right? It's not like in America; there's blatant racism sometimes. But in the U.K., it's like very down low racism, but it's there and it's sad to see in 2021.”
“I keep making my moves, keep making my money and eventually I'll be a world champion.”
“I've got the striking, the grappling and I've got the jiu-jitsu.”
“I have to call my mum after a fight, win or lose. I always cry. I know how much it means to her. To be a son that at one point was getting in trouble and wasn't making your mum proud to now having your mum crying and telling you how proud she is of you is an emotional thing.”
“It's a mad world. The MMA world is mad.”
“I am a smart fighter with solid power.”