A biography for Vitor Belforthasn’t been written yet.
“My mindset as an athlete and as a man is to accept what God is asking me to do and to live my life expressing God's word.”
“I'll focus on my training, no matter who I fight.”
“That's the beauty of the fight: Anything can happen.”
“The sweet feeling is knowing that nobody gave me anything for free.”
“I don't think Apple would be making the computers, the iPhone, being the top electronics company it is, if Steve Jobs didn't have some regrets over mistakes he made and learned to overcome them.”
“I'm a proper man.”
“In the natural life, we eat, we drink water, we give birth, we pay taxes. In the spiritual life, we can only reach it by faith.”
“I'd fight any beast in the jungle, you know?”
“You're going to have to swallow Vitor Belfort. I'm going to reinvent myself and come back different every time.”
“I work for the UFC, and whoever they say I fight, I will.”
“I'm training like an animal. Nobody trains harder than me.”
“The one thing the fans wanted to see is me getting the title shot.”
“Having three kids at home is sometimes like dealing with Democrats and Republicans when you're choosing a restaurant.”
“Legacy is not what I did for myself. It's what I'm doing for the next generation.”
“I'm very proud to tell you guys I have been accepted into Stanford University, one of the main institutions of learning and research in the world.”
“I trained karate in 2001 to fight Heath Herring.”
“The truth is the Vintage Vitor never left.”
“How many fighters are going to be able to leave the legacy that I did? Nineteen years old, I came and I conquered.”
“I started very young... I learned my martial arts first in the street. There were always fights. That's the culture in Brazil.”
“I have lots of business outside of the Octagon, and I'm looking to have fun.”