A biography for Roy Nelsonhasn’t been written yet.
“A good wrestler, with good jiu jitsu and great boxing, can beat Fedor.”
“If you paid me $2 million, I'm sure I could lose my belly. But I don't get paid to look a certain way. I get paid to win fights. That's what I concentrate on.”
“I just want to be agreeable; I want to be a pleaser. And that's all I want to do. I want to please the fans or the haters. One or the other.”
“I can always fight the best in the world.”
“Conor McGregor has a beard because of me, because I'm the one who allowed it. If it wasn't for me, none of these guys would have a beard. The same thing with the belly. Fighters who don't look like bodybuilders wouldn't be in the UFC if it wasn't for me. There's a lot of things I've definitely paved the road for.”
“If you're a true MMA fan, you're going to want to have Fight Pass the same way TV and movie fans have Netflix.”
“For me, having pneumonia and losing to Mir doesn't sit well.”
“I'm always looking ahead, not backwards.”
“For me, the biggest thing with Overeem, he's a K-1 champ, Strikeforce champ, DREAM champ, you name it. He's had every belt in there.”
“MMA is all about putting on a show and entertaining the fans, and that's the one thing I've known from the get-go.”
“I think the WWE is a great place for professional athletes. Floyd Mayweather did it. Mike Tyson has done it. Even Donald Trump has appeared in the ring.”
“I only fight clean fighters. I'll fight anybody in the UFC that's clean. Or dirty. Or clean.”
“I'm usually looking to wrestle and grapple, but I guess the knockouts just happen.”
“With boxing, sometimes you'll watch the first three rounds, then you'll change the channel and turn it back in the 10th round. With MMA, you have to watch all 15 minutes. You'll want to watch every second.”
“I'm always down to fight a legend of the sport.”
“The one thing about the heavyweight division or, actually, just being in the UFC, anybody can win, and anybody can lose. You're competing with the best in the world.”
“I made more from sponsorship than I did from fighting. I did that for the longest time.”
“I'm always down to give the fans what they want.”
“I like to actually fight. It's just in my blood.”
“There's a difference between business acquaintances and friends. I consider a friend any time we eat together at the same restaurant, or he's eaten at my house, or I've eaten at his house.”