Face life's challenges with confidence, dare to pursue your dreams and live to the fullest just as my father did.
Fighting is about a strategy. MMA is not all about brutality.
If Teila Tuli won the first UFC, everybody would have been learning sumo.
I never put a 'last one' tag on my fights because you never know.
In any professional level competition, soccer players, you've got to know when to stop.
My father didn't make us fighters, he made us teachers.
Mike Tyson is a good boxer, but he is not the best fighter. I am the best fighter.
My Jiu Jitsu is with the gi. It's the real style of Jiu Jitsu, it's with the gi and I fight MMA.
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.
Everyone wants to fight me. It's a long list.
It's always good to have more promotions, give more fighters work.
I believe in pure jiu-jitsu. That's what I've done in the past.
I am a product of my father's work.
There's so much talent in Brazil, so many guys that will probably never get discovered.
If I had doubts, I would've never walked into the ring.
In a street fight situation, there's no weight division, there's no time limits.
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.
You know the 80s music is something that no one wants to admit liking, but once then start playing everyone is into it.
Kids wake up in the morning and say, 'I want to be a UFC fighter one day,' just like they do in baseball.
I never drank, never party, Carnival, none of that.
