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Commentary:
Bas Rutten: Why doesn't he punch him?
Stephen Quadros: Because he doesn't train in stand up.
Bas Rutten: Hasn't he ever seen anyone throw a punch?
Stephen Quadros: What position is that Bas
Bas Rutten: Yay, the head-between the-thighs-position, usually used for another act. The black-widow technique!
Stephen Quadros: I must say I have had it done to me a few times..
Bas Rutten: hehehe!
Stephen Quadros: I am sure he has a few tricks up his sleeve.
Bas Rutten: He's not wearing any sleeves.
Stephen Quadros: Don't even start, Bas.
Frank Shamrock: Ohhhh huge knee!
Mike Goldberg: Big knee!
Frank Shamrock: That was a huge knee!
Mike Goldberg: That knee was big!
Eddie Bravo: Boy was I wrong about that move.
Stephen Quadros: Well, yea you were.
Stephen Quadros: They tell me getting kicked by Mo Smith is like getting hit by a baseball bat at 85 mph.
Bas Rutten: No. I don't think so.
Bas Rutten: He has a black belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu.
Stephen Quadros: Yes, well many of the fighters have a black belt.
Bas Rutten: Yes, but in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu you cant buy your belt like in say, Tae Kwon Do.
Stephen Quadros: Do you have any belts?
Bas Rutten: I have a brown belt in Tae Kwon Do.
Stephen Quadros: Hmmm, I wonder what happened?
Bas Rutten: I think he must have hit him with the Dim Mak. He shoved his nose into his brain I think.
Bas Rutten: He keeps on making those weird sounds.
Stephen Quadros: Yeah I think he's trying to impersonate Flipper the seal.
Stephen Quadros: Frye's getting the standing 8-Count here, Bas
Bas Rutten: Why's he getting the standing 8-Count?
Stephen Quadros: Well, he's getting his ass kicked.
Stephan Quadros: It looks like a few of Silva's knees got through there to Matsui's nose.
Bas Rutten: Either that or he has really high blood pressure.
Tank: Roy Jones Jr. ain´t gonna knock out Mike Tyson.
*during the fight, the victor demolishes his hundred pound heavier opposition within minutes*
Jeff Blatnick: Well, seems like Roy Jones Jr knocked out Tyson after all.
Tank: You can´t really compare this to boxing.
Interviews:
Interviewer: What's something that you would like to apologize for?
Alexander Otsuka: I crapped my pants when I was 26 years old.
Commentator: Have you ever had an ankle problem?
Jim Brown: *watches replay of Ken Shamrocks anklelock on another fighter* Ugh! Not like that!
Interviewer: What's new in your life?
Kazushi Sakuraba: I gained some weight and it affects my car's fuel consumption.
Stephen Quadros: Have there been any fighters jealous of your good looks?
Guy Mezger: Aren't they all. Or their girlfriends anyways
Interviewer: What makes you laugh?
Semmy Schilt: Jokes.
Interviewer: Quinton. What do you think Igor can do to beat you?
Quinton Jackson: I think he can knock me the **** out! That's what I think!
Interviewer: What does your father do?
Kazushi Sakuraba: My dad, well he's probably drinking right about now *laughing* because today's his day off.
Interviewer: Have you thought of any new techniques lately?
Kazushi Sakuraba: Yes, I had some but since I've been hit too much in my recent fights, I forgot them!
Stephen Quadros: How long have you had that mustache?
Don Frye: Since I was 5. I got it from my mom's side of the family. She's not a pretty woman.
Stephen Quadros: You should come and visit us in the US.
Mirko Filipovic: Only if Carmen Diaz will be there. I decided that I'm going to marry her.
Stephen Quadros: Will you have to win in a strategic way or in a violent way?
Mirko Filopovic: I'm afraid I will have to do it in a violent way
Stephen Quadros: Are you a god boy now that you are married?
Vanderlei Silva: I have always been a good boy. I'm a bad boy only in the ring.
Stephen Quadros: Are you gonna wear that chain into the ring?
Quinton Jackson: You damn right. I'm fighting a man that beat four Gracies. Damn right I'm taking my chain.
Stephen Quadros: Where do you see yourself in three years.
Quinton Jackson: Let's see, I'm 22 right now. In three years I see myself being 25.
Interviewer: What do you think of gangster rap?
Murilo Rua: I don't know much about it. I like Elton John and Phil Collins
Stephen Quadros: Would you be concerned about Sateke's invisible kick?
Quinton Jackson: I guess so, goddamit, 'cuz if it's invisible, I cannot see the mother****er.
Interviewer: How many minutes do you think it will take to take Satake down?
Mark Coleman: *giggling* How many minutes? [correcting the questions wording] How many seconds?
Mirko Filipovic: The guys that are always trying to impress girls by saying 'Hey, I bought a new Ferrari or I bought a new ship.' I will take her to my room and she'll see 10 guns. 15 revolvers.
Filipovic's Manager: And a small dick!
Interviewer: Do you own any guns?
Ryan Gracie: No. I have my hands. I don't need them. If someone pulls a gun on me, I would get put in jail. One time in a night club in Brazil, another guy was drinking a lot and he knew I'm a Gracie. He pulled his gun out and pointed at me. I knocked him down and took his gun away. He said "Hey, I'm a cop!" and I said I don't care.
Sherwood: How about Bobby Hoffman? I heard that at the Superbrawl 13 heavyweight tournament that you had a few words. Rumor or true?
Tank Abbott: I don't know who that is.
Sherwood: He is a bald guy who supposedly came up to you and said something about you going to wrestling.
Tank Abbot: I don't know who he is. I don't even think I was at Superbrawl.
Sherwood: Yeah you were there. I saw you on tape. It was in Hawaii.
Tank Abbott: Oh I was drunk.
Sherwood: You jumped in the ring!
Tank Abbott: Yeah, you gotta have fun. It was probably the most non-boring part of the show
Interviewer: Do you think long hair is coming back in style?
Dan Henderson: Are you making fun of me?
Interviewer: *scared* No…
Interviewer: What do you think of fighters that aren't humble?
Carlos Newton: I believe they lack self-confidence. Also, it's covering up. Fighters should be themselves. They should have respect for their opponent and know that there is strength in weakness and weakness in strength.
Bas Rutten: I do not know what you mean, "Something blue?"
Maurice Smith: It must be an American thing then, I won't even try to explain it.
Announcer: Igor. You just won the IFC championship and 25,000
dollars. How do you feel?
Igor Vovchanchyn: Okay. *gives thumbs up*
Tank Abbott:
"After a match, my opponent goes to the hospital and gets an IV and I have a martini." -Tank Abbott
"Okay. Right here I'm tickling his brain." -Tank Abbott commenting on a replay showing him pressing his opponents head against the cage.
"You know I just went from the barstool to the octagon." -Tank Abbott.
"Here's where I hit him with the light switch." -Tank Abbott commentating on his knockout of Steve Nelmark
"I'm starting to get coïtusually aroused right now you better get that off." -Tank Abbott after watching a replay of his brutal knockout of John Matua.
"Absolutely some good cocktail fun. I'm sipping a few cocktails, watching the show. There's nothing here that tickles me." -Tank Abbott.
"You get on queer street. You make a right turn. You're back to Main." -Tank Abbott.
"Isn't that the guy on the coffee can?" -Tank Abbott commenting on his Brazilian opponent Hugo Duarte.
"He who fights and runs away lives to fight another day and looks like a pussy today." -Tank Abbott.
"I think knees and elbows are over rated unless you down over at queer street."- Tank Abbott.
"****!" -Tank Abbott after losing to Don Frye in the UFC.
"I''ll bet he wishes he had that other pectoral muscle right about now." -Tank Abbott's comment on Tra Telligman's TKO loss. Tra lost a pectoral muscle during a childhood accident.
"I dreamed that I was being raped by Freddy Mercury." -Tank Abbott after being defeated by Dan Severn.
"I thought it was an inside thing only, and I wouldn't make it. At that point in time, it was. The Gracies owned the show and they wouldn't let anyone fight. They told me I could fight, but not until UFC 6. They were going to make an example of me, showing what martial a artist could do to a street fighter. That's why they call me Tank. Their grand plan was to go to 20/20 and say, "Look at what our martial arts can do to your street fighter." But it blew up in their faces." -Tank Abbott.
"What? Did he just win the Olympics?" -Tank Abbott commenting on the crowd going wild after a match.
"When I go in there, I'm not going in there to win. I'm going in there to fight!" -Tank Abbott
"The first thing that makes you a tough fighter is in your head and in your heart, then your tools. It has nothing to do with someone teaching you how to be tough." -Tank Abbott.
"I don't think much of Tito Ortiz. He needs to grow balls and sign to fight Chuck Liddell." -Tank Abbott
"In a real fight in a bar, you wouldn't be able to lay on your back like a bitch. You might catch a pool cue to the back of the head." -Tank Abbott.
"I'm gonna win this tournament because I am the most athletic fighter in it." -Tank Abbott, a noticeably potbellied fighter who had considerable success in the UFC.
"I was at a nightclub and the Polar Bear was dancing. Dancing like a Polar Bear." -Tank Abbott commenting on Paul "The Polar Bear" Varelans. Tank also beat down Varelans quite brutally in the UFC.
"Beating people up is a positive thing." -Tank Abbott
"Let me tell you something about the ground game and Jiu-Jitsu. All you un-athletic people out there, you know this for a fact. Little kids learn Jiu-Jitsu. Women learn Jiu-Jitsu. You don't have to be an athlete to know Jiu-Jitsu. You have to be an athlete to wrestle in college, or to walk into a boxing gym and have competitive boxing matches and fight people. You just have to be a bitch and lay on your back to know Jiu-Jitsu. I mean, come on. It's the truth." -Tank Abbott
Humor:
"The power of Christ compels you! The power of Christ compels you!" -Bas Rutten.
"Even if you have some problems at home, with your wife, with the kids, or your car isn’t working good, go to my site and leave a message ‘cause Silva will help you!"- Vanderlei Silva.
"Hey Ref.......don't look at me! Pay attention to the fight!" -Bas Rutten distracting the referee during a fight.
"In my early years I was drunk and took a kids bike and rode it home and got charged with stealing. I want to prove to Mirko I am innocent!" -Kazushi Sakuraba after learning his next opponent was a former police officer.
"Who knows what would have happened to him, aeronautically speaking." -Dan Severn.
"I would just stand there, and people would laugh." -Semmy Schilt, a seven foot tall kickboxer.
"Maybe I will hire someone to make some belts for me. It's easier than fighting for them you know." -Kazushi Sakuraba
"I'd rather fight Arona cause I don't know him and he's in the ****ing video game and I'm not." -Quinton Jackson
"I'll kick him in the head." -Kazushi Sakuraba on how he would beat champion kickboxer CroCop.
"Do you know what pimp stands for? It stands for Punching Is My Pleasure!" - Shonie Carter
"You should study Pokemon to get stronger." -Kazushi Sakuraba to a defeated adversary.
"We know only one thing about this guy. That he ate a croissant for breakfest this morning." -Bas Rutten commenting on a new
French fighter.
"I'm not really sure how he ended up coming up here, to tell you the truth. Once Phil got up here, we were hospitable towards him. We tried to show him some things in [training], but the juice just wasn't worth squeezing there. The guy's not real sharp. So I took him out to my farm, showed him a pig and told him it was a short fat horse. He spent the rest of the day trying to get the thing to do cardio. He was pumping TrimSpa pills down its throat. Actually, I think he accidentally dropped some of his special vitamins down its throat because the next morning the thing woke up with a 20-inch bicep. It was rolling around in its own crap, yelling, 'I'm the Oregon Fat Ass! I'm the best eva!" -Matt Lindland on his opponent Phil Baroni.
[In his pre-rematch interviews, Baroni began referring to Lindland as "Woogie," a character played by Chris Elliott in the movie Something About Mary.] "That's a great comeback for him. I wonder what happened that night. Was his illegal cable box broken? He couldn't get the free porno channel? For Phil to go up to that kind of intellectual perch, to watch Something About Mary. That says a lot about the guy." -Matt Lindland before defeating the loud mouth Phil Baroni for a second time.
"Seagal told me he didn't think the fighters in Pride were very good and that he couldn't understand why Kazushi Sakuraba kept winning because he thought he was not very good either. I obviously didn't agree but felt it was not the time or place to get into it with Seagal. So I said, "But at least they test themselves on a regular basis." Then I told him I had heard that he had a student who he thought could defeat Sakuraba. He said he did. I said if he needed help putting the match together I may be able to help him but his guy might be asked to get some experience before going to Japan. We never spoke on the subject after that." -Stephen Quadros on working with Steven Seagal.
"My favorite fighter is Phil Baroni, and I'm pretty sure it's yours too." -Phil Baroni
Philosophy:
"There is no better way to die, than to die in the midst of a battle, fighting to the very end......like a man." -Enson Inoue
"The ground is my ocean, I am the shark, and most people don't even know how to swim." -The Machado brothers, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu experts.
"A black belt only covers two inches of your ass, you have to cover the rest." -Royce Gracie
"I will get my respect or I will die." -Ken Shamrock
"My style is that when I get into the ring, I never assume that I will win before I actually do. The only thing I am confident in is myself. I think to assume that you are going to win before the fight even begins is an insult to your opponent. I've always thought so and I always will." -Emelianko Fedor
"I fight because I like it." -Kazushi Sakuraba
"If it works, don't change." -Royce Gracie
"Blood is just red sweat." Enson Inoue as tattoed on his back.
"Prepare yourself for the worst and the best will always happen." -Tito Ortiz
"The mind is like a parachute. It works best when it is open." -Rickson Gracie
"It's actually the samurai spirit, which is 'no fear and never give up." -Enson Inoue
"It's about having confidence in yourself. I'm not afraid of that man across from me." -Ken Shamrock
"I was born to fight." -K-1 Kickboxer Andy Hug
"You put the Devil on the other side and I will come to fight." -Royce Gracie
"I just keep going until he dies." -Phillip Miller
"Live as a man. Die as a man. Become a man." -Enson Inoue.
"Mike Tyson's a great boxer. The greatest boxer - but boxer. Not the best fighter." -Royce Gracie.
"In Brazil, it's our culture to fight. At school we learn Judo and Jiu-Jitsu. It's a culture about fighting." -Mario Sperry.
"A knock out is an accidental win." -Helio Gracie.
"Boxer guys are very tough and they play a very tough game, but its a game. Karate guys, tae kwon doe guys, kickboxers or judo guys, they are very tough guys and a lot of heart and a lot of training, but its very specifically as a sport. It's not a fight. A fight is everything goes." -Rickson Gracie
"Conditioning is my best weapon." -Frank Shamrock
"At least one time in your life, train with the will to die." -Enson Inoue
"My strategy is just to attack, attack and attack." -Don Frye
"I like Tito. I like alot of people but I'll fight every one of 'em. Its all business when I step into the octagon its all business." -Chuck Liddell on fighting his friend Tito Ortiz for the championship.
"I promise violence" -Vanderlei Silva
"The idea of jiu-jitsu is to give the little guy a chance to beat the big guy." -Royce Gracie
"Pain is temporary. Pride is forever." -Enson Inoue.
Amusing:
"He choke me. I choke him!" -Keith Hackney
"I came to party in the octagon." -Cal Worsham.
"I'm here to release the beast." -Dan "The Beast" Severn.
"Yeah Pat! C'mon Pat!!! Put a whooping on that boy!" -Cal Worsham's cornermen during the fight he lost to Tank Abbott.
"Why you want to talk about theeese cheeecken! He is cheeecken!" -Wallid Ismail talking about his rival.
"If you're coming on, come on!" -Harold Howard before becoming one of the many losers of early UFC's.
"Sex anytime is a good thing." -Gary Goodridge.
"His gi will be totally red from his own blood." -Vanderlei Silva on fighting a certain opponent who wears a gi in the ring.
"Holy shit, your a tall mother ****er!" -Jeremy Horn upon noticing his opponents size. Jeremy still won however.
"I am against the war, but I agree with the american attack. Humanity is rotten, and only thru an earthquake, a tsunami or a war we can clean it up. The stench is everywhere. They are all the same." -Helio Gracie.
"Sometimes I became really aggressive, which was dangerous for my fellow villagers." -Igor Vovchanchyn
"Have you ever had your ass whooped on by a black man before? It hurts!" -Quinton Jackson
"Inside the ring Enson thinks outside the ring Enson's a pussy." -Enson Inoue
"But nothing hairy for El Guapo please." -Bas "El Guapo" Rutten
"Here is a quote is for you... striker18 is a six two 119lbs of alpha male and I am glad we are not in the same weight class and that I only weigh 80 more pounds trust me I met him at a keyboard warrior seminar and that guy is intense he is mean as hell and looking for a bowl of rice." -Vernon White on internet critics.
"I'll be back in about three minutes." -Robbie Lawler before defeating his opponent in under ninty seconds.
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Commentary:
Bas Rutten: Why doesn't he punch him?
Stephen Quadros: Because he doesn't train in stand up.
Bas Rutten: Hasn't he ever seen anyone throw a punch?
Stephen Quadros: What position is that Bas
Bas Rutten: Yay, the head-between the-thighs-position, usually used for another act. The black-widow technique!
Stephen Quadros: I must say I have had it done to me a few times..
Bas Rutten: hehehe!
Stephen Quadros: I am sure he has a few tricks up his sleeve.
Bas Rutten: He's not wearing any sleeves.
Stephen Quadros: Don't even start, Bas.
Frank Shamrock: Ohhhh huge knee!
Mike Goldberg: Big knee!
Frank Shamrock: That was a huge knee!
Mike Goldberg: That knee was big!
Eddie Bravo: Boy was I wrong about that move.
Stephen Quadros: Well, yea you were.
Stephen Quadros: They tell me getting kicked by Mo Smith is like getting hit by a baseball bat at 85 mph.
Bas Rutten: No. I don't think so.
Bas Rutten: He has a black belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu.
Stephen Quadros: Yes, well many of the fighters have a black belt.
Bas Rutten: Yes, but in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu you cant buy your belt like in say, Tae Kwon Do.
Stephen Quadros: Do you have any belts?
Bas Rutten: I have a brown belt in Tae Kwon Do.
Stephen Quadros: Hmmm, I wonder what happened?
Bas Rutten: I think he must have hit him with the Dim Mak. He shoved his nose into his brain I think.
Bas Rutten: He keeps on making those weird sounds.
Stephen Quadros: Yeah I think he's trying to impersonate Flipper the seal.
Stephen Quadros: Frye's getting the standing 8-Count here, Bas
Bas Rutten: Why's he getting the standing 8-Count?
Stephen Quadros: Well, he's getting his ass kicked.
Stephan Quadros: It looks like a few of Silva's knees got through there to Matsui's nose.
Bas Rutten: Either that or he has really high blood pressure.
Tank: Roy Jones Jr. ain´t gonna knock out Mike Tyson.
*during the fight, the victor demolishes his hundred pound heavier opposition within minutes*
Jeff Blatnick: Well, seems like Roy Jones Jr knocked out Tyson after all.
Tank: You can´t really compare this to boxing.
Interviews:
Interviewer: What's something that you would like to apologize for?
Alexander Otsuka: I crapped my pants when I was 26 years old.
Commentator: Have you ever had an ankle problem?
Jim Brown: *watches replay of Ken Shamrocks anklelock on another fighter* Ugh! Not like that!
Interviewer: What's new in your life?
Kazushi Sakuraba: I gained some weight and it affects my car's fuel consumption.
Stephen Quadros: Have there been any fighters jealous of your good looks?
Guy Mezger: Aren't they all. Or their girlfriends anyways
Interviewer: What makes you laugh?
Semmy Schilt: Jokes.
Interviewer: Quinton. What do you think Igor can do to beat you?
Quinton Jackson: I think he can knock me the **** out! That's what I think!
Interviewer: What does your father do?
Kazushi Sakuraba: My dad, well he's probably drinking right about now *laughing* because today's his day off.
Interviewer: Have you thought of any new techniques lately?
Kazushi Sakuraba: Yes, I had some but since I've been hit too much in my recent fights, I forgot them!
Stephen Quadros: How long have you had that mustache?
Don Frye: Since I was 5. I got it from my mom's side of the family. She's not a pretty woman.
Stephen Quadros: You should come and visit us in the US.
Mirko Filipovic: Only if Carmen Diaz will be there. I decided that I'm going to marry her.
Stephen Quadros: Will you have to win in a strategic way or in a violent way?
Mirko Filopovic: I'm afraid I will have to do it in a violent way
Stephen Quadros: Are you a god boy now that you are married?
Vanderlei Silva: I have always been a good boy. I'm a bad boy only in the ring.
Stephen Quadros: Are you gonna wear that chain into the ring?
Quinton Jackson: You damn right. I'm fighting a man that beat four Gracies. Damn right I'm taking my chain.
Stephen Quadros: Where do you see yourself in three years.
Quinton Jackson: Let's see, I'm 22 right now. In three years I see myself being 25.
Interviewer: What do you think of gangster rap?
Murilo Rua: I don't know much about it. I like Elton John and Phil Collins
Stephen Quadros: Would you be concerned about Sateke's invisible kick?
Quinton Jackson: I guess so, goddamit, 'cuz if it's invisible, I cannot see the mother****er.
Interviewer: How many minutes do you think it will take to take Satake down?
Mark Coleman: *giggling* How many minutes? [correcting the questions wording] How many seconds?
Mirko Filipovic: The guys that are always trying to impress girls by saying 'Hey, I bought a new Ferrari or I bought a new ship.' I will take her to my room and she'll see 10 guns. 15 revolvers.
Filipovic's Manager: And a small dick!
Interviewer: Do you own any guns?
Ryan Gracie: No. I have my hands. I don't need them. If someone pulls a gun on me, I would get put in jail. One time in a night club in Brazil, another guy was drinking a lot and he knew I'm a Gracie. He pulled his gun out and pointed at me. I knocked him down and took his gun away. He said "Hey, I'm a cop!" and I said I don't care.
Sherwood: How about Bobby Hoffman? I heard that at the Superbrawl 13 heavyweight tournament that you had a few words. Rumor or true?
Tank Abbott: I don't know who that is.
Sherwood: He is a bald guy who supposedly came up to you and said something about you going to wrestling.
Tank Abbot: I don't know who he is. I don't even think I was at Superbrawl.
Sherwood: Yeah you were there. I saw you on tape. It was in Hawaii.
Tank Abbott: Oh I was drunk.
Sherwood: You jumped in the ring!
Tank Abbott: Yeah, you gotta have fun. It was probably the most non-boring part of the show
Interviewer: Do you think long hair is coming back in style?
Dan Henderson: Are you making fun of me?
Interviewer: *scared* No…
Interviewer: What do you think of fighters that aren't humble?
Carlos Newton: I believe they lack self-confidence. Also, it's covering up. Fighters should be themselves. They should have respect for their opponent and know that there is strength in weakness and weakness in strength.
Bas Rutten: I do not know what you mean, "Something blue?"
Maurice Smith: It must be an American thing then, I won't even try to explain it.
Announcer: Igor. You just won the IFC championship and 25,000
dollars. How do you feel?
Igor Vovchanchyn: Okay. *gives thumbs up*
Tank Abbott:
"After a match, my opponent goes to the hospital and gets an IV and I have a martini." -Tank Abbott
"Okay. Right here I'm tickling his brain." -Tank Abbott commenting on a replay showing him pressing his opponents head against the cage.
"You know I just went from the barstool to the octagon." -Tank Abbott.
"Here's where I hit him with the light switch." -Tank Abbott commentating on his knockout of Steve Nelmark
"I'm starting to get coïtusually aroused right now you better get that off." -Tank Abbott after watching a replay of his brutal knockout of John Matua.
"Absolutely some good cocktail fun. I'm sipping a few cocktails, watching the show. There's nothing here that tickles me." -Tank Abbott.
"You get on queer street. You make a right turn. You're back to Main." -Tank Abbott.
"Isn't that the guy on the coffee can?" -Tank Abbott commenting on his Brazilian opponent Hugo Duarte.
"He who fights and runs away lives to fight another day and looks like a pussy today." -Tank Abbott.
"I think knees and elbows are over rated unless you down over at queer street."- Tank Abbott.
"****!" -Tank Abbott after losing to Don Frye in the UFC.
"I''ll bet he wishes he had that other pectoral muscle right about now." -Tank Abbott's comment on Tra Telligman's TKO loss. Tra lost a pectoral muscle during a childhood accident.
"I dreamed that I was being raped by Freddy Mercury." -Tank Abbott after being defeated by Dan Severn.
"I thought it was an inside thing only, and I wouldn't make it. At that point in time, it was. The Gracies owned the show and they wouldn't let anyone fight. They told me I could fight, but not until UFC 6. They were going to make an example of me, showing what martial a artist could do to a street fighter. That's why they call me Tank. Their grand plan was to go to 20/20 and say, "Look at what our martial arts can do to your street fighter." But it blew up in their faces." -Tank Abbott.
"What? Did he just win the Olympics?" -Tank Abbott commenting on the crowd going wild after a match.
"When I go in there, I'm not going in there to win. I'm going in there to fight!" -Tank Abbott
"The first thing that makes you a tough fighter is in your head and in your heart, then your tools. It has nothing to do with someone teaching you how to be tough." -Tank Abbott.
"I don't think much of Tito Ortiz. He needs to grow balls and sign to fight Chuck Liddell." -Tank Abbott
"In a real fight in a bar, you wouldn't be able to lay on your back like a bitch. You might catch a pool cue to the back of the head." -Tank Abbott.
"I'm gonna win this tournament because I am the most athletic fighter in it." -Tank Abbott, a noticeably potbellied fighter who had considerable success in the UFC.
"I was at a nightclub and the Polar Bear was dancing. Dancing like a Polar Bear." -Tank Abbott commenting on Paul "The Polar Bear" Varelans. Tank also beat down Varelans quite brutally in the UFC.
"Beating people up is a positive thing." -Tank Abbott
"Let me tell you something about the ground game and Jiu-Jitsu. All you un-athletic people out there, you know this for a fact. Little kids learn Jiu-Jitsu. Women learn Jiu-Jitsu. You don't have to be an athlete to know Jiu-Jitsu. You have to be an athlete to wrestle in college, or to walk into a boxing gym and have competitive boxing matches and fight people. You just have to be a bitch and lay on your back to know Jiu-Jitsu. I mean, come on. It's the truth." -Tank Abbott
Humor:
"The power of Christ compels you! The power of Christ compels you!" -Bas Rutten.
"Even if you have some problems at home, with your wife, with the kids, or your car isn’t working good, go to my site and leave a message ‘cause Silva will help you!"- Vanderlei Silva.
"Hey Ref.......don't look at me! Pay attention to the fight!" -Bas Rutten distracting the referee during a fight.
"In my early years I was drunk and took a kids bike and rode it home and got charged with stealing. I want to prove to Mirko I am innocent!" -Kazushi Sakuraba after learning his next opponent was a former police officer.
"Who knows what would have happened to him, aeronautically speaking." -Dan Severn.
"I would just stand there, and people would laugh." -Semmy Schilt, a seven foot tall kickboxer.
"Maybe I will hire someone to make some belts for me. It's easier than fighting for them you know." -Kazushi Sakuraba
"I'd rather fight Arona cause I don't know him and he's in the ****ing video game and I'm not." -Quinton Jackson
"I'll kick him in the head." -Kazushi Sakuraba on how he would beat champion kickboxer CroCop.
"Do you know what pimp stands for? It stands for Punching Is My Pleasure!" - Shonie Carter
"You should study Pokemon to get stronger." -Kazushi Sakuraba to a defeated adversary.
"We know only one thing about this guy. That he ate a croissant for breakfest this morning." -Bas Rutten commenting on a new
French fighter.
"I'm not really sure how he ended up coming up here, to tell you the truth. Once Phil got up here, we were hospitable towards him. We tried to show him some things in [training], but the juice just wasn't worth squeezing there. The guy's not real sharp. So I took him out to my farm, showed him a pig and told him it was a short fat horse. He spent the rest of the day trying to get the thing to do cardio. He was pumping TrimSpa pills down its throat. Actually, I think he accidentally dropped some of his special vitamins down its throat because the next morning the thing woke up with a 20-inch bicep. It was rolling around in its own crap, yelling, 'I'm the Oregon Fat Ass! I'm the best eva!" -Matt Lindland on his opponent Phil Baroni.
[In his pre-rematch interviews, Baroni began referring to Lindland as "Woogie," a character played by Chris Elliott in the movie Something About Mary.] "That's a great comeback for him. I wonder what happened that night. Was his illegal cable box broken? He couldn't get the free porno channel? For Phil to go up to that kind of intellectual perch, to watch Something About Mary. That says a lot about the guy." -Matt Lindland before defeating the loud mouth Phil Baroni for a second time.
"Seagal told me he didn't think the fighters in Pride were very good and that he couldn't understand why Kazushi Sakuraba kept winning because he thought he was not very good either. I obviously didn't agree but felt it was not the time or place to get into it with Seagal. So I said, "But at least they test themselves on a regular basis." Then I told him I had heard that he had a student who he thought could defeat Sakuraba. He said he did. I said if he needed help putting the match together I may be able to help him but his guy might be asked to get some experience before going to Japan. We never spoke on the subject after that." -Stephen Quadros on working with Steven Seagal.
"My favorite fighter is Phil Baroni, and I'm pretty sure it's yours too." -Phil Baroni
Philosophy:
"There is no better way to die, than to die in the midst of a battle, fighting to the very end......like a man." -Enson Inoue
"The ground is my ocean, I am the shark, and most people don't even know how to swim." -The Machado brothers, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu experts.
"A black belt only covers two inches of your ass, you have to cover the rest." -Royce Gracie
"I will get my respect or I will die." -Ken Shamrock
"My style is that when I get into the ring, I never assume that I will win before I actually do. The only thing I am confident in is myself. I think to assume that you are going to win before the fight even begins is an insult to your opponent. I've always thought so and I always will." -Emelianko Fedor
"I fight because I like it." -Kazushi Sakuraba
"If it works, don't change." -Royce Gracie
"Blood is just red sweat." Enson Inoue as tattoed on his back.
"Prepare yourself for the worst and the best will always happen." -Tito Ortiz
"The mind is like a parachute. It works best when it is open." -Rickson Gracie
"It's actually the samurai spirit, which is 'no fear and never give up." -Enson Inoue
"It's about having confidence in yourself. I'm not afraid of that man across from me." -Ken Shamrock
"I was born to fight." -K-1 Kickboxer Andy Hug
"You put the Devil on the other side and I will come to fight." -Royce Gracie
"I just keep going until he dies." -Phillip Miller
"Live as a man. Die as a man. Become a man." -Enson Inoue.
"Mike Tyson's a great boxer. The greatest boxer - but boxer. Not the best fighter." -Royce Gracie.
"In Brazil, it's our culture to fight. At school we learn Judo and Jiu-Jitsu. It's a culture about fighting." -Mario Sperry.
"A knock out is an accidental win." -Helio Gracie.
"Boxer guys are very tough and they play a very tough game, but its a game. Karate guys, tae kwon doe guys, kickboxers or judo guys, they are very tough guys and a lot of heart and a lot of training, but its very specifically as a sport. It's not a fight. A fight is everything goes." -Rickson Gracie
"Conditioning is my best weapon." -Frank Shamrock
"At least one time in your life, train with the will to die." -Enson Inoue
"My strategy is just to attack, attack and attack." -Don Frye
"I like Tito. I like alot of people but I'll fight every one of 'em. Its all business when I step into the octagon its all business." -Chuck Liddell on fighting his friend Tito Ortiz for the championship.
"I promise violence" -Vanderlei Silva
"The idea of jiu-jitsu is to give the little guy a chance to beat the big guy." -Royce Gracie
"Pain is temporary. Pride is forever." -Enson Inoue.
Amusing:
"He choke me. I choke him!" -Keith Hackney
"I came to party in the octagon." -Cal Worsham.
"I'm here to release the beast." -Dan "The Beast" Severn.
"Yeah Pat! C'mon Pat!!! Put a whooping on that boy!" -Cal Worsham's cornermen during the fight he lost to Tank Abbott.
"Why you want to talk about theeese cheeecken! He is cheeecken!" -Wallid Ismail talking about his rival.
"If you're coming on, come on!" -Harold Howard before becoming one of the many losers of early UFC's.
"Sex anytime is a good thing." -Gary Goodridge.
"His gi will be totally red from his own blood." -Vanderlei Silva on fighting a certain opponent who wears a gi in the ring.
"Holy shit, your a tall mother ****er!" -Jeremy Horn upon noticing his opponents size. Jeremy still won however.
"I am against the war, but I agree with the american attack. Humanity is rotten, and only thru an earthquake, a tsunami or a war we can clean it up. The stench is everywhere. They are all the same." -Helio Gracie.
"Sometimes I became really aggressive, which was dangerous for my fellow villagers." -Igor Vovchanchyn
"Have you ever had your ass whooped on by a black man before? It hurts!" -Quinton Jackson
"Inside the ring Enson thinks outside the ring Enson's a pussy." -Enson Inoue
"But nothing hairy for El Guapo please." -Bas "El Guapo" Rutten
"Here is a quote is for you... striker18 is a six two 119lbs of alpha male and I am glad we are not in the same weight class and that I only weigh 80 more pounds trust me I met him at a keyboard warrior seminar and that guy is intense he is mean as hell and looking for a bowl of rice." -Vernon White on internet critics.
"I'll be back in about three minutes." -Robbie Lawler before defeating his opponent in under ninty seconds.
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