Quotes from Anderson Silva

Having kids and a relationship at such an early age definitely built up my hunger and perseverance to succeed.

For a long time, I have waited for the opportunity to fight Mr. Roy Jones. This is my personal goal and dream.

Nick Diaz is a guy who walks forward, has great boxing skills.

His boxing style is one that I would like to test myself against. I've always been a fan of his, and I've always wanted to test myself against Roy Jones.

I feel better training in Brazil.

The moment when I broke my leg, when I realized my leg was broken, I thought my career was over.

I'm a natural born fighter, so this is what I do, and it's normal. It's natural. It's what I've always done as a martial artist, and as a martial artist, it's what I always wanted to do - test myself and always fighting. It's what I'm meant to do.

In my camp, we have Minotoro Noguiera and Lyoto Machida.

I win for long time. I'm champion for long time - for years.

No one can know what happiness is if you have not gone through the disappointmentOne can only savor the victory if he has felt the bitter defeat.

I already have a story that's been seen in Glory and I have had many highs and lows, victories and defeats. That brought me experience and it will help me a lot to gain the desired world title.

Past waters don't move anything. They only create mosquitoes.

Where I grew up, most people were policemen. So naturally, I also wanted to be a policeman.

Life is about how much you can take and keep fighting, how much you can suffer and keep moving forward.

I love to fight. I love the preparation. I love to learn new things, always overcoming myself.

The thing I always demand is respect. I respect everybody and have a history in the sport, and I believe people need to respect me.

I was really disappointed with the lack of respect from the UFC towards Brazilian athletes.

I don't think there is rivalry between the teams in Brazil. We each do our jobs, and we each have our part in MMA.

You must have a dragon hidden inside you. When you need, you let the dragon out.

I practice the martial arts. I don't practice MMA. MMA is my job, MMA is a new sport. Martial arts is the knowledge from the ages.

I proved for a long time how much I've given of my heart and of my time to the UFC.

I would love to fight my clone.

This is the UFC. UFC has the best fighters in the world. That's it.

There are many great fighters in the UFC; some of my favorites are Rodrigo Nogueira, Lyoto Machida, and B. J. Penn, but aside from these guys, the UFC has many great fighters in every division.