A biography for Roy Nelsonhasn’t been written yet.
“You have all that muscle on you, you're going to get tired. That's why I prefer to be fat.”
“On any given day, I know on any given day I can beat anyone else and knock out anyone else out.”
“I'd fight anyone I've ever lost to.”
“Do I want a shot at the belt? Yes, of course I do. Put it this way: I am Barry Sanders on the Detroit Lions. You love to watch me, but you'll never see me play in the Super Bowl. It's just one of those things. It's about politics. It's not about fighting.”
“Our sport was founded on the tournament.”
“I've always looked up to Big Nog. He's a legend in the sport and has the mentality that so many fans love, and it's what got me into fighting. He's a man's man and a real fighter.”
“I just don't want to be one of those guys that's stuck fighting the same opponents again and again.”
“I go where the fans want me.”
“I have plenty of sponsors, and I'm the first American that Pretorian has sponsored.”
“I've coached UFC champions and stuff before I ever started fighting.”
“I definitely envision myself in politics at some point.”
“I think Lesnar could probably beat Fedor, just from pure size.”
“If you've got a mortgage, and you've got bills to pay, you might tend to do some stupid things.”
“Anybody that was from the old Pride days is a fighter.”
“I just remember I used to go to each tournament to make a couple bucks. I did as a living thing; I got paid to do martial arts, so I'd go to these jiu-jitsu tournaments and make, like, $1000 every time I won the tournament.”
“I'm always interested in furthering our sport. Like, I would love to be a correspondent newsperson, somebody who informs the fans a little bit more and able to bring a little more closure to our sport where it's more of a black and white as opposed to the gray area.”
“If you go into 'The Ultimate Fighter' and you're just gonna go in there to get just one fight and win... the premise is to win the whole thing. When I went in, I wanted to win the thing or be cut.”
“I think with every heavyweight, there's a style that makes for a different fight with different fighters.”
“With MMA, there are so many ways the fight can go; that's the drama. You don't know what's going to happen next.”
“To me, everything is a joke in MMA when it comes to serious topics because you can't really talk seriously about anything in our business.”