The Week in Quotes: December 13th - 19th

DOES THE FEMALE FORM MAKE YOU UNCOMFORTABLE, MR. LEBOWSKI?

"I was like, 'Wait, what? Are you breaking up with me?'" - Former UFC ring girl Logan Stanton, let go by Zuffa this week. (MMA Fighting)

"Just to come straight up with nothing leading up to it? They didn't give me any warning; they didn't tell me why." - Stanton.  Foreplay, gentleman, it's important.

"We do it all the time. We let Edith (Labelle) go earlier this year, too." - UFC President Dana White, failing to mention they had to send Edith to the glue factory. (Las Vegas Sun)

"I don't think I want to publicly talk about why people were let go. (Logan and Natasha) are both great girls and I have nothing against them. It was just time to move on." - White. 

"I was definitely upset but at the same time, I was never going to make a career out of being a ring girl." - Stanton, after having a chance to collect her thoughts.  Just another Zuffa employee complaining about their pay.

"Going into it, I told the UFC that this is how I am and that I wasn't going to get fake boobs. I think they tried it out for a bit. Me and Natasha were the friendlier ones and I think now they want something sexier and curvier." - Stanton.  Speak for yourself honey.  I enjoy your nerdy look as much as the next guy, but to call Natasha lacking in the curve or sexy department?  Really?

PACIFISM IS NOT SOMETHING TO HIDE BEHIND

"I don’t want to fight Jake Shields because he has no personality." - Former Strikeforce middleweight champ Frank Shamrock. (Fight! Magazine)

"And when he got on to CBS, and it was his chance to be a star, he leg humped [Jason "Mayhem" Miller] all night long and killed our ratings." - Shamrock

"All I can think about is working my way back to earn another shot at B.J. Penn." - Diego Sanchez, dropping Tony Robbins for the Frank Mir motivational teachings. (Twitter)

"Or do they want me to fight a 'super fight' against somebody in Aloha Stadium, and do they think they can sell 40,000 tickets by putting me in against a Gray Maynard, or do they want me up against a bigger name?" - UFC lightweight champ B.J. Penn, who still wants a third fight with Georges St. Pierre.  Stock in maple syrup rose a half point. (Honolulu Advertiser)

CONDOLENCES.  THE BUM'S LOST.

"It's sad to say that somebody with five fights can be looked at as somebody who's going to put somebody in trouble with 30 fights. I just don't understand what sport these people are watching." - Mike Whitehead, upset at being looked over in his fight with "King" Mo Lawal. Whitehead lost by TKO in round one. (Cage Writer)

"Sure, he's overpowered a couple of Japanese guys he was a lot bigger than. Other than that, he hasn't done anything. He overpowered some guys that he was bigger than, stronger than and more athletic than. These Japanese guys had no wrestling whatsoever." - Whitehead.  Note to self: Travis Wiuff is Japanese.

LOOK, PAL, THERE WAS NEVER ANY MONEY.  THE BIG LEBOWSKI GAVE ME AN EMPTY BRIEFCASE, SO TAKE IT UP WITH HIM, MAN.

"That report is completely false. Thiago is 100 percent and he’s busy preparing for this fight." - Thiago Silva's manager Alex Davis, on rumors that Silva has an injured ankle and is being compensated by Zuffa to not pull out of an already barren fight card.  Who would expect a fight camp to admit an injury PRIOR to a fight? (MMA Junkie)

"Not only has the UFC not paid any extra money for Thiago to fight through an injury, but to the contrary, in my 10 years of dealing with the UFC, (matchmaker) Joe Silva and the staff have always said it’s better to pull out of a fight if you’re hurt rather than lose a fight because you’re injured." - Davis

STAY AWAY FROM MY SPECIAL LADY FRIEND

"Mir is a Multiple time Champion, who has been counted out more then Mike Tyson to only find himself right back at the top. He is a LEGEND of the sport and I would be honored to fight him." - Shane Carwin, interesting personality. (Shane-Carwin.com)

"I couldn’t argue against that. Carwin is a phenomenal match-up, and I think if I can’t fight Brock again to show that I’ve made improvements against that style, I think Shane Carwin is a more than an ample substitution. If anything, I think he’s a better version." - Former UFC heavyweight champ Frank Mir, never shy to take Brock Lesnar down a peg or two. (MMA Weekly)

PARTING SHOTS

"After all, only one man saw me naked in my entire life and I have to think deeply about that." - Strikeforce women's champ Cristiane "Cyborg" Santos, with a quote that won't surprise anyone.  Though, she poses, I'm buying.  OK, I'm downloading.  But same thing.  (Sherdog)

"I’m almost totally recovered, thank God the recovering is going pretty fast." - UFC middleweight champ Anderson Silva, who's recovery correlates with his ability to makes cash money. (Tatame)

"These sites provide us with a tool to take live streams down. But for our last fight, there were 160,000 streams going." - Zuffa co-owner Lorenzo Fertitta.  Pretty impotent tool. (CNBC)

"There could be an opening in a month; there could be an opening in about three years." - NSAC executive chairman Keith Kizer, on the re-licensing of John McCarthy. (MMA Fanhouse)

"Leave the kid alone. He made a mistake. We're all human, we make mistakes." - Dana White, on Tiger Woods.  If fornicating with numerous beautiful women is a mistake, I don't want to do anything correctly again. (MMA Mania)