Matt Hughes

“I want to raise my kids more than coaching. I do some stints on coaching, but I've got other things I want to do.”

“Whoever does the most damage probably ought to win the round.”

“I just dislike getting, you know, Koscheck was my last loss, and BJ was my loss before that, and I fully believe that if those fights went all 15 minutes, I would have got my hand raised. I really do. But I got hit in the wrong spot and I didn't make it out of the first round both times.”

“I've never been good trying to be somebody I'm not.”

“I consider myself an old guy and when some of the older fighters fight, I find myself interested.”

“I don't enjoy running, but I might run five miles in one day. If I can do that, it shows me that I can do anything.”

“That's not a champion the UFC wants. Maybe I'm speaking out of turn here, but they don't want a champion who's going to tie somebody up, put them against the fence and try to just win single rounds and not try and close the fight.”

“I was born a farmer and I'll die a farmer.”

“I wouldn't call myself a trash-talker. I just speak my mind.”

“I love to train, but as far as having a gym where you have to live in it, I would rather live with my family.”

“My wife's a great lady, but she's not going to tell me when Matt Hughes retires.”

“On the ground, Johny Hendricks won. He beat GSP up. In the rounds Georges won, he barely won.”

“If you're on bottom, if you're on top, if you're on your feet, whoever does the cumulative most damage in a round, is probably going to win. And some of these judges think that because one guy was on top the whole five minutes, just because he was on top, they think he should have won the round.”

“If I'm scheduled to fight, I've never had a problem that would make me back out of a fight.”

“There's nothing I can do in Hillsboro that can compare to the money I'm making in the UFC.”

“Fighting a Gracie, I had to keep the odds in my favor.”

“Fighters have a choice to fight for any organization they want. They've got a choice of playing baseball, basketball, football, swinging a hammer, being a lawyer, doing anything they want. But they wanted to fight.”

“I grew up with a twin brother on a farm miles away from everybody else.”

“I didn't want to retire in the first place.”

“Matt Serra is a bad example for kids to watch.”