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.
— Roy Nelson
TV makes you look taller and fatter.
I think with every heavyweight, there's a style that makes for a different fight with different fighters.
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.
We're in this business to make money, but then nobody wants to talk about how much money we're making. That's serious, but nobody will talk about it.
The thing is that anybody in the heavyweight division can be champion any day just because of one punch.
One of the things in marriage is you have to understand what appreciation is about, and that'll keep me for longevity. That's why my fans love me, because I appreciate them. Because with no fans, there would be no sport, no fighting for me, no UFC, no Bellator, no Rizin; there'd be nothing without the fans.
You learn from your mistakes, and you grow from them.
I go where the fans want me.
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.
I think Lesnar could probably beat Fedor, just from pure size.
Carwin, he seems like he trains for five one-minute rounds. That's his championship fight, apparently.
If you made the choice to get in there and fight, you have to accept accountability for whatever happens.
Stupid can't fix stupid.
I'm usually looking to wrestle and grapple, but I guess the knockouts just happen.
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'm one of those heavyweights who'd like to fight as often as possible.
When you think what Big Country could be, I could be that guy.
Anybody that was from the old Pride days is a fighter.
Just go out there against the best fighters in the world and see where I stand. That's what I want.
MMA has a lot of those things that you're not allowed to talk about; like, they're completely off-limits. So you have to make a joke out of it.
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.
Anytime I come to any organization, I have my sights on the belt.
What brought me to Bellator was Scott Coker, Viacom, and one of my good friends, Mike Kogan.
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 think just more that it's okay for fighters to have a self-esteem. I think I've kind of shown that that's okay. And as long as you put the hard work in, you can accomplish anything.
I think I'd do pretty well with Fedor.
My goal is to always fight the best in the world and put on a show for the fans.
I'd fight anyone I've ever lost to.
Everybody hates a whiner.
A lot of people out there are bullies, and they pick on people and call people names. You need to grow up from that, and you need to become a better person.
Stipe's one of the top guys in the UFC. He wouldn't be in the UFC if he wasn't one of the best in the world.
If you can't beat me, you need to get some new coaches or something.
I like to actually fight. It's just in my blood.
I relate more to 90 percent of America because I look like 'em, act like 'em. I'm not above anybody; I put my pants on the same way. Some guys try to live up to their persona. I'm just me.
That was the best part of the Pride guys - they'd go out and entertain. They'd either get knocked out or knock somebody out; they were always trying to finish the fight.
When I grappled, I never even trained for a grappling match.
I'm always down to fight a legend of the sport.
The one thing that always sucks about me is that I'm just a fighter, and I just love to fight.
I can always fight the best in the world.
Our sport was founded on the tournament.
The only thing that's going to be more epic than Roy Nelson fighting Mark Hunt is Roy Nelson fighting for the belt. Those are two fights that I know fans want to see.
I guess there's a showmanship in fighting.
A good wrestler, with good jiu jitsu and great boxing, can beat Fedor.
You have all that muscle on you, you're going to get tired. That's why I prefer to be fat.
If you've got a mortgage, and you've got bills to pay, you might tend to do some stupid things.
I am a student first, teacher second.
On any given day, I know on any given day I can beat anyone else and knock out anyone else out.
I'm just a fat guy.
Jiu jitsu 101: make the other guy do all the work.
