Quotes from Alexander Volkanovski

There are no excuses in fighting. You can be playing a team sport and have a good game, and you can lose. In fighting, it's all on me. If I go out there and lose, then it's my fault. I like that.

I pride myself on being a family man. I pride myself on being respectful and hardworking. That's just me.

Being in UFC is a great promotion for me because I have more fans from all over Australia.

My last year of football I started having a couple of MMA fights, and bringing the weight down. It started in the pre-season of football, just to keep fit, and I did really well.

I've already took out the hardest guys in my division. Back to back we've got Chad Mendes, Aldo, and Max. Stylistically, they were the three hardest fights.

I train with whoever I can, all different sizes, shapes, and styles.

I'm the type of person, I'll fight whoever.

It's one of the things that I tend to do, make the right decision, right time, and get the right reactions and capitalize on it.

Everyone knows my style - I jam my hips in, jam their head into the mat and punch their head through the canvas.

I used to play in the front row, I could eat whatever I want - but I got up to 97 kilograms. And let's remember I'm five foot bloody nothing!

I fought Chad Mendes to make sure I was in the top five.

I think a knockout over Elkins will really put me on the radar internationally.

If I want to be the GOAT, I've got to take out No. 1 contenders.

Khabib is one of the GOATs as well. Nothing but respect for the dude. But I'm very, very hard to hold down.

No one is really playing the good guy, but if they want to play the bad guy, I'm ready to play the super hero and take these guys out.

You know I am all about the good guys, but sometimes we get put to the back of the line because we are too nice.

A lot of times we're being portrayed as thugs, but anyone who really knows us understand that we work hard, we diet hard, the commitment is full on. But alot of people don't see that. Some of the nicest and most respectful people I've ever met are in this sport. I truly believe that, and there's a lot of fighters that live by that.

I just really like ground and pound. The way I do it, it looks like I'm just throwing bombs, but there's some technique to it too. I make sure I'm controlling the hips, palming his face to the ground, just little things like this that make sure that the ground and pound works and I'm not letting him tie me up to where I can't throw punches.

I played rugby league, I probably played for about 10 years I think, and I wrestled before then. I did about a year of wrestling, and I think I got a bit tired of the tights, so I started to play football with the mates. I used to be a front rower, the big guys up front. I used to be 97 kilograms, which is like 210 pounds, or something like that.

I know I can go for days. I've proved this time and time again, against grinders.

I'm a freak when it comes to holding on the ground; it's just almost impossible holding me on the ground.

I've got all the tools to make it hard for anyone, especially someone that's a division lower than me.

With all my fights, my style is to pretty much put a beating on. I don't exactly like hurting people, but unfortunately that's what we need to do in this game to win.

When it comes to power, we know I got power, and we know I can wrestle.