Roy Nelson Quotes

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Roy Nelson

Profession : Athlete

Birth : June 20, 1976

Our sport was founded on the tournament.

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What brought me to Bellator was Scott Coker, Viacom, and one of my good friends, Mike Kogan.

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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.

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I can always fight the best in the world.

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Anytime I come to any organization, I have my sights on the belt.

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The thing is that anybody in the heavyweight division can be champion any day just because of one punch.

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The one thing that always sucks about me is that I'm just a fighter, and I just love to fight.

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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.

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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.

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I'm always down to fight a legend of the sport.

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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.

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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.

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When I grappled, I never even trained for a grappling match.

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Just go out there against the best fighters in the world and see where I stand. That's what I want.

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I think with every heavyweight, there's a style that makes for a different fight with different fighters.

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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.

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Anybody that was from the old Pride days is a fighter.

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TV makes you look taller and fatter.

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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.

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When you think what Big Country could be, I could be that guy.

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