A biography for Ryan Baderhasn’t been written yet.
“You have to put your body through hell through training camp, and you've got to be able to take that.”
“We step up and fight the top names that nobody wants to fight. So if I hear people saying, 'oh, you're ducking this or ducking that,' no I haven't ducked anybody.”
“It took me a while to believe I could be a champion.”
“If there's anything I take from Lil' Nog it's respect.”
“You think you've got to go out and knock someone out for it to be an impressive win. But it's kind of hard to even know what an impressive win means.”
“I felt like I deserved a title shot a few times in the UFC and was kind of passed over.”
“I've got to work on my defense and my movement.”
“I do believe I'm the best in the world.”
“In college wrestling we had to make weight every weekend, so it's not bad at all. I get it off easily.”
“It doesn't matter who stands in front of me, I've got to find a way to go out there and win.”
“I like proving people wrong.”
“The wrestling community is a tight community, I love you all.”
“Yea, I really don't lift much during training camp, I just focus on strength and conditioning, but in the time off, that's where I'll really hit the squats and the dead lifts. That's when I tend to put on some weight, get to about 230lbs.”
“For me, I feel like every time I go out there, I have to prove something, because whether it's fans or the fighters I'm going to fight potentially or am scheduled to fight, there's always an excuse of why I won.”
“My long-term goal is to become the UFC champion and to hold that 205-pound title. If you're not really in it to do that, why even bother with a sport like this?”
“I don't think I need to pick a weight class. I feel like I'm that perfect in between. I have the strength, I have the power to fight at heavyweight and I can drop down to 205.”
“It's not like I'm fighting bums out here, I'm fighting the best competition out there, and I'd been a perennial top five guy in the UFC before I left.”
“If I had the opportunity to fight any fighter, if you'd asked me when I started fighting, it would be Fedor. That aura and mystique about him.”
“I'm not in the UFC to be mediocre.”
“Winning is everything to us, but at the same time you've gotta have exciting fights and keep pushing it in that way.”