A biography for Matt Serrahasn’t been written yet.
“I'm not that guy who says, please can I get a fight?”
“I'm on the mat six times a week, so I got on the TRT. I had some back issues and I'm always on he mat, so I had my levels checked. So I went and my things were in the 300s or whatever, so I'm like really, wow... so I'm a candidate?”
“When Joe Silva called me with the Trigg fight, I said, 'Hell yeah.' It's a matchup that excites me a lot.”
“Dominick Cruz is the unluckiest fighter of all time. I mean the injuries that this guy's had.”
“I felt like I lived my movie, my 'Rocky' movie. So that was cool.”
“I don't get caught up in the hype, the so-called experts, the Internet; they're not in there with us.”
“If you talk to somebody else, they can say whatever they want about you, but I'm pretty secure with what I've done and my fights. Win or lose, it's all experience, and it shapes the person you are and the instructor you are.”
“Once that cage shuts, I'm the one in control of my destiny.”
“I'm proud of everything I've done with the UFC.”
“When you lose, people that you think aren't going to come at you, will come at you, because they're haters.”
“I like that people think I'm going to lose.”
“I get to help a lot of teenagers and kids that were maybe like me when they were younger. Now they have the jiujitsu so they can compete and be tough guys that way.”
“Listen I'm not going into a fight with Matt Hughes thinking that this guy is done. There's a reason the guy is going to be a Hall of Famer.”
“I don't watch any sports; I'm just being honest.”
“I don't want to take my shirt off on TV.”
“When I beat GSP it's not like I was getting my butt handed to me and I just closed my eyes and landed a punch.”
“I've always bragged that I fought some guys in the Hall of Fame, legends like B.J. Penn and Matt Hughes and they always knew they were in a fight, but now I'm in there, so I can't even use that line.”
“When you're used to fighting in a cage, nothing scares you.”
“What I pull off in sparring I should be able to pull off in a fight.”
“You want to know what's really exciting? In Montreal, it's called a Patrick Cote house party.”