Glover Teixeira Quotes

I tell people for a long time, there are always other options in life. We have to do what we want.

Good conditioning helps you prepare your muscles, so I make sure I’m always strict with my conditioning.

I really love fighting.

I’m not greedy – I have a pretty good life. I don’t have an expensive lifestyle, so I can make my living teaching classes at my gym.

I never turn down a fight.

Jon Jones is the best fighter in history.

I take care of business.

There are always holes in anyone‘s game.

You do get injuries in this sport. More than in other sports.

I’m a very simple guy.

You have to keep improving.

I grew up in a very small town, on a farm. There was not even a TV in my house at that time. I didn’t have much connection with the outside world and couldn’t see martial arts. When I was 10 or 12, that’s when we got our first TV. We only had maybe two channels. At 16 years old, I remember watching Marco Ruas on TV.

McGregor sells the show and fights well, he‘s a real athlete who doesn’t get out of shape and is always training.

I have always fought top guys.

This sport is brutal. This sport is a hard sport.

I’m a guy who looks to put the pressure and come out with the knockout or the submission.

I want to fight Anthony Johnson again, for sure. I want to fight Jon Jones again. I want to fight the guys that beat me, those who are at the top.

In the UFC, it’s about names. Every fight is hard, and everybody knows all the disciplines. Some might know more than others.

Every fight has its rough spots, and I’m always looking for improve every facet.

I don’t put much pressure on myself, because I’m strong mentally.

When I came to the United States, I saw a lot of Mike Tyson. I would stay up and watch all of the Mike Tyson fights. A friend here said, ‘You got to do Jiu-Jitsu. That’s the thing.’ I said, ‘C’mon, Jiu-Jitsu would never beat Mike Tyson.’ So, he showed me the Royce Gracie tape. I was so impressed with the thing.

I lost my first professional fight, but came back and won fights until I fought for the world title.

I love to compete in Abu Dhabi. I’ve been there two times, in 2009 and 2011, and it was a great show. It’s a great way to stay sharp because you’re competing with the best grapplers in the world.

I’m not fighting for the money. Of course, money is good, but if I don’t feel like going to the gym anymore, I can stop fighting and do something else.

I always wanted to fight Cormier. He has this fighting style, he’s a warrior, I always wanted to fight someone like him, a guy like ‘Rampage,’ someone who moves forward and fights.

I train with top guys like Chuck Liddell and Lyoto Machida, I have trained with Junior dos Santos and Cain Velasquez, and nobody have ever dominated me.

Without a doubt Jon Jones is one of the greatest fighters in history, and, of course, we do see errors that we’ll try to exploit.

Who doesn’t wanna be called champion and hang that belt on the wall, right?

Little injuries are always happening, so you’ve just got to train through those. You’ve also got to have the right training partners, people you trust.

You look at the staff, the whole staff, from the security to the nutritionists, everybody. Everybody’s happy. They want to be there. They look like they want to be in the UFC.

I’m ready for anything they can put in front of me.

I will fight anyone. I will always fight anyone, anywhere.

Gustafsson is a great fighter, real top notch, one of the best in the world.

To err is human, but to persist in the mistake is ugly.

I think Cormier and I would be a great fight. I will do everything I can to make it happen.

Jiu-jitsu is my strong suit, but I trust my wrestling and my striking.

I just keep getting better and keep learning. Keep an open mind, and live in the moment, and love what I do. Discipline myself, and hard work.

I just want to prove to myself and to the fans that I deserve to be in the UFC.

I want to fight for the title. I want to get the title. That’s my dream.

Every phenom goes down one day.

I love challenges.

I believe in my wrestling and I believe in my jiu-jitsu.

I’m just living life, but I’m happy to still be fighting at 41. It’s something I like to do, so the more I can do this, the better.

To be honest, I’m not the kind of guy to think about the future in the long term.

I beat Ryan Bader, and that beautiful knockout got me a shot at the title. That’s the kind of thing that puts you close to the top.

I’m a fighter. I’m a worker.

The way people train is the most dangerous thing because we train, like, everyday.

We never want anything bad to happen, especially to an athlete like Jon Jones.

I’m confident, and I’m well trained.

It’s important to have the right strategy. I can’t commit to things or fight like I used to. I can’t just bang it out. I have to be more intelligent in training and in fighting.

I will always fight tough fights, and that’s what I need in order to get to the belt.

Anthony Smith is super tough.

Guys want to make a name for themselves, they look at my age and think they will run over me. It’s not like that, though. I’m tougher than that.

I have this mentality that I have to be prepared for everything.

I’ll never give myself an A since I ask a lot from myself.

I used to love martial arts movies starring Bruce Lee and Jean Claude Van Damme. In one of Van Damme’s movies, he would break a pine tree. I would kick banana trees because I used to live on a farm. My father would get mad at me because I would break all of the banana trees around.

I always go forward and try for the knockout or submission. I’m going to finish my opponent. I’m not going to try to win by decision.

When I come to the United States, I came here illegally. I didn’t know I was going to be a fighter. I just thought I was going to work landscaping for, I don’t know, three, four years, then go back to Brazil and live my life.

I grew up watching ‘Vale Tudo’ and Marco Ruas. I fight imagining the bouts from a past generation, when everything was legal.

I’m an aggressive fighter. I put on a show for the fans every time.