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The Week in Quotes, August 9th-15th

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WAIT A SECOND, YOU AREN'T SUPERMAN?

"It's the first time I do 5 rounds in my life.  It's tough." - UFC Welterweight Champion Georges St. Pierre (UFC.com Video Center)

"After the 3rd round, I was looking at the clock. Jon Fitch, he never die.  I try to finish him many time." - St. Pierre, insinuating challenger Jon Fitch should be used as an extra in zombie movies

"My god, what am I going to have to do to beat this guy?" - St. Pierre

"It's discouraging."
- St. Pierre, on Fitch's resistance to being finished

The rest after the break.

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WE HOPE SO TOO, JON

"It took me the whole first round to adjust to how fast he is." - Fitch, on what surprised him most about St. Pierre (UFC.com Video Center)

"I thought he'd be fast, but not that fast." - Fitch, hopefully not commenting on St. Pierre's performance in the bedroom

"I hope.  God, I hope so.  I was trying."
- Fitch, answering a question about whether or not he hurt St. Pierre

MAYBE HERRING THOUGHT HE WOULD BUST OUT THE F-5?

"We broke Heath Herring down.  That's the advantage we have in our camp.  Heath doesn't have any footage on me.  We had everything on him."
- Former WWE Superstar Brock Lesnar (UFC.com Video Center)

"I jumped back, I was stunned." - Lesnar, on the initial punch that knocked Heath Herring halfway across the Octagon

"That was for Heath's camp. I had the last laugh and the last words to say. I might've went a little overboard." - Lesnar, explaining his post fight antics (Yahoo)

"If I offended anybody then I'm sorry...uh, not really!"
- Lesnar, showing his quick wit

"A lot of people lose sight of the bottom line: this is a business. It’s about making dollars by selling tickets, Pay-Per-Views, and merchandise. It’s up to the promoter to decide what is televised. I just train hard, then get in the octagon and fight."
- Lesnar, showing a keen business acumen explaining why someone with his level of experience is in the co-main event (New York Times)

IF THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY DIDN'T PROVE IT...

"I've gotta be honest though, I was kinda bored with this match." - Former UFC Welterweight Champion Matt Hughes apparently not watching the same St. Pierre/Fitch fight as everyone else (MMA Shoot)

"Halfway in the third round, I got up and left the arena."
- Hughes, continuing to look like a jackass

"Well, I think GSP's last fight definitely takes him out of the running.  Anderson Silva's looking tough.  BJ Penn's always up there, he's tough."
- Hughes, convinced that dominating the clear #2 fighter in a division over 5 rounds isn't impressive

MY DINNER WITH RANDY

"We had a great breakfast and went out to dinner later that night." - WAMMA Heavyweight Champion Fedor Emelianenko, discussing his meeting with UFC Heavyweight Champion Randy Couture (Sherdog)

"We talked a little bit about everything" - Emelianenko (Sherdog)

"Certainly, one of the main topics was the possibility of having a fight together and the realities that we both face -- mainly that he [Couture] faces -– and whether the reality of having a fight can happen."
- Emelianenko, stating the obvious

"What I do is a sport.  If I meet Randy in the ring, I will meet him as a sportsman." - Emelianenko, when asked about the idea of making friends with Randy before fighting him

WELL, THE CAT'S OUT.  AND IT PISSED ON THE FLOOR AND SCRATCHED ALL THE FURNITURE.

"I don't want to let the cat out of the bag, but soon.  The next couple of month, we're hoping to get [MMA Live] on ESPN or ESPN 2, and the sponsors are getting on board as we speak, so we should have a deal very, very soon. We're all very pumped."
- Kenny Florian (MMA Junkie)

"Like the rest of us, our co-host and analyst Kenny Florian is very excited about 'MMA Live' -- the quality of the show, its hosts and the audience that it is building.  We are very energized about the place 'MMA Live' has in our growing 'Original Digital' lineup on ESPN.com, but there are no current plans for it to appear on any ESPN television networks in the future."
- ESPN Spokesmen Paul Melvin, apparently just as intimidating an opponent as B.J. Penn (MMA Junkie)

WELL AT LEAST HE DIDN'T HIT A PREGNANT WOMAN

"I love the kid, but I kinda wanna kill him. Everyone's telling me about this fasting thing, you know... As his trainer - me and Ray Longo - you'd think we'd be in the loop with it, but the guy didn't freakin' tell us anything."
- Former UFC Welterweight Champion Matt Serra, who apparently was the only person in the industry who didn't know about Luke Cummo fasting (TriStateFighter)

"So it's like, I'm in his corner, win or lose I'm gonna back the kid up. But, you saw, it wasn't a technical thing why he lost. He's just weak, man. He's weak because of all this stupid crap he's doin', man. Whatever the hell diet he's doin'. The kid should eat a steak if he wants to stay in that freakin' weight class, you know?"
- Serra, not exactly making his case for Trainer of the Year

OH, YEAH...THAT'S AN APPROPRIATE RESPONSE

"I would fight anyone of the UFC lightweights..."
- DREAM Lightweight Champion Joachim Hansen (In the Guard)

"...but the problem is that I will never put my foot in the octagon after they (UFC) tried to be funny..." - Hansen, still being reasonable

"I would rather have bleeding hemorrhoids than fight for the UFC." - Hansen, making his case for Quote of the Year

WHITE NOISE


"I would go with Obama. He’s younger. Hillary Clinton might kick the shit out of both of them." - UFC President Dana White, on Obama vs. McCain in the Octagon and hopefully making the case for women's MMA in the UFC (Playboy via Figure Four Weekly)

"Corruption, fragmentation and greed killed boxing. When I started with the UFC I took all the shit I hated about boxing and changed it."
- White, apparently not knowing what the words "greed" and "fragmentation" mean

"That big-mouthed bitch, that clown. Back when he had the title, he refused to fight Chuck Liddell. He sat on the sidelines for a year and a half, crying, ‘Aww, I don’t have any money!" - White, sounding like an ex-girlfriend who refuses to let you go

"He’s not the best pound-for-pound fighter, not even close, but he’s one of the four or five best heavyweights." - White, on Fedor (Yahoo)

"But we all have to thank him for getting rid of Tim Sylvia. He’d been stinking out the joint the last couple of years and Fedor did everyone a favor by beating him so easily and getting rid of him."
- White, who may be surprising Tim Sylvia who has said he and the UFC are on "good terms"

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Woah.

Fagan you crazy for this one!

by Chris Nelson on Aug 16, 2008 12:06 AM EDT   1 recs

Yeah, I’m doubly crazy because I had to redo it after Windows Update restarted my machine last night and I lost all my work from last Saturday.

Hopefully this is a suitable replacement for not doing 5 FightLines every month.

by Mike Fagan on Aug 16, 2008 12:10 AM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Classic

by Day Man on Aug 16, 2008 3:55 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Fagan, just have to say, I’m sure this took a while to compile and it is one of the best , most entertaining reads of the week.

Nice job and hopefully this can be a regular contribution.

"The bigger the cushion, the sweeter the pushin'"

by BJJDenver on Aug 16, 2008 12:15 AM EDT   0 recs

I double that sentiment. Great post.

by Benicio on Aug 16, 2008 6:42 AM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Hansen should talk to Fightlinker about them bleeding hemorrhoids.

And I hope this is a regular thing from now on.

by Gong on Aug 16, 2008 1:10 AM EDT   0 recs

If people see interesting quotes, send them to me (preferably the quote [transcribed if in a video] and a link to the content). I compiled all these with all the sites I have hooked up on Google Reader, but there’s just so much content that I can’t possibly read all of it.

by Mike Fagan on Aug 16, 2008 10:08 AM EDT   0 recs

Will do. Also, you were right about Lesner v Herring. I concede.

by Day Man on Aug 16, 2008 3:54 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Cool piece, Mike. If you had only put the quotes in boxes and drawn lines to the authors, that would have been awesome. Man, I’m kidding. It’s awesome as is FightLines.

by Cannon Jacques on Aug 16, 2008 2:02 PM EDT   0 recs

Hah, A+ rib, sir.

by Mike Fagan on Aug 16, 2008 4:10 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Yes, this gets a 10 from the East German judge.

There is no such thing as innocence, only degrees of guilt.

by misterjonez on Aug 16, 2008 11:00 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

"Halfway in the third round, I got up and left the arena." - Hughes, continuing to look like a jackass

In Hughes’ defense, it was pretty clear how the rest of the fight was going to go by then.

by Richard on Aug 17, 2008 12:41 AM EDT   0 recs

I suppose, but he’s making the case that the fight was boring, which is mildly retarded.

by Mike Fagan on Aug 17, 2008 1:52 AM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Hughes clearly was inferring

that the fight was boring. Which, as Mike says, is mildly retarded. Actually, it’s more than mildly retarded.

I could see how someone could say the fight wasn’t terribly interesting to dissect after the conclusion of the second round, but that’s a far cry from being boring. The outcome seemed fairly certain, sure, but the action never ceased.

There is no such thing as innocence, only degrees of guilt.

by misterjonez on Aug 17, 2008 4:59 AM EDT to parent up   0 recs

Yeah.

“Mildly retarded” is about the most diplomatic assessment of the Hughes comment I’ve read. I would say it’s something more than that, also.

by Cannon Jacques on Aug 17, 2008 12:20 PM EDT to parent up   0 recs

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