Sometimes you watch a tournament with a point system, and it's not the best fighter that wins. It's the guy who scores more points and then he runs away and hides.

I'm a prize fighter. Put me in any card and I'll sell it out. I can do it, man.

Gracie jiu-jitsu proved to be the best.

I'm used to teaching classes in the dark.

I never put a 'last one' tag on my fights because you never know.

Fighting is about a strategy. MMA is not all about brutality.

My second fight at UFC 1, I fought Ken Shamrock. In the fight I choked him. As soon as he tapped, I let go. He tried to continue, but the ref got kind of stuck like, 'should I let it go or stop the fight.' That's when I looked at the ref and I said, let it go, we're going to continue.

I enjoy traveling, teaching and fighting. It's in my blood.

I do jiu-jitsu my whole life, so why would I try to stand and bang with Mike Tyson? I'm going to learn boxing in six months because my opponent is good in boxing? That makes no sense.

In any professional level competition, soccer players, you've got to know when to stop.

Kids wake up in the morning and say, 'I want to be a UFC fighter one day,' just like they do in baseball.

It's always good to have more promotions, give more fighters work.

I have fought all my life, that is easy for me.

In a street fight situation, there's no weight division, there's no time limits.

Mike Tyson is a good boxer, but he is not the best fighter. I am the best fighter.

If I'm home, just hanging around with the kids.

Martial arts in general were not made for a tournament, for points system. Martial arts were made to defend yourself in the street fight situation, not to score points.

My grandfather was doing business with a Japanese man. In exchange of good relationship the man taught my uncles the art of jiu jitsu. My father couldn't do it because he was very weak, he couldn't do one press-up, so he just sat back and watched, and memorised. What he did was add leverage into the moves.

My father had nine kids, seven boys and two girls, and my uncle had 21 kids, 11 boys and 10 girls. They had the opportunity to teach the art of Gracie Jiu Jitsu and that's how we got involved from a young age. It's in the blood.

There's so much talent in Brazil, so many guys that will probably never get discovered.

I wouldn't change the past for nothing.

I love to travel and I love to teach, so I combined the two.

Like when I fought Akebono - six foot eight, 490 pounds. Before the fight, everyone's like 'Man, you're crazy. You're out of your mind. How are you going to fight a guy that big, there's no way you can take him down. You cannot punch him out. You're out of your mind.' After the fight, everybody was like 'Oh come on, he's big and fat.' Really?

Everyone wants to fight me. It's a long list.

Tim Kennedy is one of the toughest guys in my opinion.

You tell me what's impossible and I'll prove you wrong.

Face life's challenges with confidence, dare to pursue your dreams and live to the fullest just as my father did.

Gracie is not a family, it's a factory of fighters.

When Scott Coker first mentioned to me that Ken Shamrock wanted to fight I said, 'Thank you.' I played a little hard to get, but for sure I knew we had to do the third fight with Ken; there was no doubt. He still insisted on fighting me. I guess the guy cannot sleep for 22 years.

I follow a very strict diet.

My brother, who created the UFC, had a vision. He knew that people wanted to see who was the best fighter. People have curiosity, what style was the best? Boxing, wrestling, Gracie jiujitsu? It was a quest to find out.

I travel all over the world and teach people.

I never drank, never party, Carnival, none of that.

I live a very healthy lifestyle.

My father didn't make us fighters, he made us teachers.

I'm a MMA fighter, man. I'm a MMA fighter, all the way.

Werdum is good, is a smart fighter. He knows how to set up a beautiful strategy.

If I had doubts, I would've never walked into the ring.

If Teila Tuli won the first UFC, everybody would have been learning sumo.

I believe in pure jiu-jitsu. That's what I've done in the past.

That's why I like Demian Maia and Fabricio Werdum. Demian will take you down and do his game. Werdum learned the stand-up to know what's coming, but he never stopped using his jiu-jitsu. He will clinch, take you down and submit you.

You know the 80s music is something that no one wants to admit liking, but once then start playing everyone is into it.

Bellator and Viacom want to give fans exciting fights and enable fighters to continue to grow and most importantly provide for their family, and it's something I want to be a part of.

Wouldn't you love to see Mike Tyson and Evander Holyfield go one more time? It's not like just one of them has aged. They've both aged. They're both icons.

I did a seminar once in Pennsylvania when there was big snow, road construction, a big flood and just one person showed up. I said, 'No problem, I'll do it.' If there's one or 100 on the mat, the juice is still there.

I'm a fighter. We come from the beginning, no gloves, no rules, no time limits.

The art of Gracie jiu-jitsu is to learn how to defend yourself in any situation, not to score points, not for tournament style. It's for a street-fight situation.

I am a product of my father's work.

I get stopped at the airports by just everyday people that are not even fans of the MMA and they say how they have seen me fight. Its very humbling and also rewarding.

My Jiu Jitsu is with the gi. It's the real style of Jiu Jitsu, it's with the gi and I fight MMA.