Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira Quotes

Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira

Profession : Mixed Martial Artist

Birth : June 2, 1976

If you watch closely a highlight of my fights, you will see armbars and everything. But if you really watch, what you'll see most of all is me getting back up. The power of getting back up. And to try again. It's all about overcoming.

Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira

I know I won't fight forever.

Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira

A lot of guys came in after me and they quit before me. I've seen that a lot. That's motivation. That's teamwork, I don't do that myself.

Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira

In Miami, you can walk in the street and see people. It's like Brazil.

Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira

Always I try one submission. If it doesn't work, the second one works.

Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira

Struve has great jiu-jitsu and I must avoid that. But when I'm in his guard, I can't be defensive, I have to go for kimuras, americanas and all of that.

Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira

I love to be around the fighters, training. That's my favorite thing.

Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira

I want to be among the best heavyweights in the UFC.

Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira

I love to work with athletes.

Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira

In my last fight I couldn't explode as much. Sometimes I had a chance to throw the guy, to close the distance, and I missed that distance because of my hips.

Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira

I was born with natural talent and started fighting when I was 4 years old in judo.

Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira

It's always great to fight in Brazil, especially northeast Brazil. There are a lot of tough people here. It's a tough part of the country, to fight here is amazing for me.

Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira

Fighting in the cage brings much more adrenaline than fighting in the ring. When you step inside the Octagon and they close the door, that's really a high adrenaline feeling because they enclose you and one guy in the cage.

Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira

Nothing compares to when you are in coma and you hear voices and think you are dying. Then you come out of the coma and hear more voices saying you will not walk, not play sports, not be normal. And all the time your mind is fighting back saying, you will be strong, you will fight.

Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira

You know what, if I had to do it all again, I would do the same things as before. I would meet the same people, make a lot of friends, bring a lot of happiness to my country. I get to travel all over the world, doing seminars. I have thousands of students in the Nogueira gyms.

Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira

Anderson knows how to play the trash talking game.

Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira

In Japan the fight is very cultural. The fans are very quiet the day of the fight. I was in a stadium fighting with 87,000 people and I could hear my sister talking to me. That's different than America.

Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira

I have done a total of 22 surgeries; I'm all broken.

Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira

I can say that in our gym, 'Toquinho' has never hurt anyone. He is a good person, excellent company and a man with a great character. I believe that he has never thought of doing anything evil to any opponent because this isn't his conduct.

Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira

The guys who keep coming into the gym keep me young.

Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira