RAMPAGE GOT YO' BACK

"Keith Jardine, for him, it will move him up in the ranks, when he will eventually have to fight Rashad Evans, if Rashad Evans keeps winning and he keeps winning. He says they won’t, but I guarantee you they will, and we’ll be making the Rashad Evans/Keith Jardine fight." - UFC President Dana White returning to his position as the taskmaster. (MMA Weekly)

"This isn't basketball or football. You're not part of a team. Do you want to be the champ? If Rashad's got that belt, what are you going to do — sit your whole career out and wait for Rashad to retire?" - White, I don't think Rashad's got that kind of staying power, buddy. (USA Today)

"I feel bad for Jardine right here. Dana said he's going to make him fight his friend, I have friends I train with and couldn't see myself fighting them. I like Jardine and I like Rashad, so I'm going to try and help you out, I got your back." - Former UFC light heavyweight champ Quinton Jackson.  Rampage being Rampage. (Cagewriter)

"Thanks for looking out for me." - Keith Jardine

MORE FROM UFC 96: GTFO

"If Kendall loses this fight, he could be the first-ever TUF winner that's no longer in the UFC." - White, not playing around on this card. (USA Today)

"Somewhere along the lines I became one of those guys I used to talk shit about." - Brandon Vera, now you're a guy that everyone talks shit about.  Funny how that works. (Sherdog)

"I see it as a chess match on the feet and a major part of the game that I happen to have fun with." - Shane Carwin, it's too bad your fights end up looking like a game of checkers.  That ends with you flipping the board over and throwing a big right hook.  Against your grandma.  (Pro MMA Radio)

"Do you know how hard it is to get a 200-some-pound adult man out of bed and drag him out so he gets out and does his work and trains?" - Former Jackson trainer Juanito Ibarra commenting on Jackson's "worst camp ever" for his fight with Forrest Griffin.  I expect it would be hard to get Jackson out of bed when you're too busy counting your his money. (Yahoo)

TOO BAD IT WON'T BE LIKE STRIKEBOX

"I’ve done a lot of firsts. I was the first heavyweight champ of MMA and first foreign champ in Japan. This is the first time two champions in their individual sports, at this level, will be fighting on the same card – boxing and MMA." - Former UFC champ Ken Shamrock, who will just miss out on being the first victim of Bobby Lashley. (MMA Mania)

"This isn’t a fat guy laying on his back." - Shamrock, which is why you'll lose.

CAN'T WAIT TO GET MY SEXYAMA BACK

"I want to press forward, never forgetting the feeling of challenge. Right now we are in a depression but when you see the fight I put up, conditions will turn around!" - Yoshihiro Akiyama with an early Quote of the Year candidate. (MMA News)

WHITE NOISE

"I’m not too worried about it now. If that were the situation, I’d know about it. I honestly don’t know right now. I haven’t talked to Frank and I haven’t talked to Lesnar and if that’s the situation, I’m not going to make any statements until I talk to everybody." - Dana White commenting on rumors that the Lesnar/Mir fight will be taken off of UFC 98.  (Bloody Elbow)

"You know when you're around bad guys. You don't have to be a fucking rocket scientist." - White, referring to Ibarra. (Cagewriter)

PARTING SHOTS

"Liddell is a good fighter, hits hard, but [Wanderlei] said that if I go there focused and with gas, I win this fight." - Pride's 2005 MWGP champ Mauricio Rua.  There's a very important operative in that sentence. (Tatame)

"The truth is out there." - Paul Buentello on the Aleksander Emelianenko rumors with his best Fox Mulder impersonation. (MMA Fanhouse)

"It was so tight, I thought about biting him." - Leonard Garcia with a horrific quote out of context.  He was referring to the arm triangle Mike Thomas Brown locked on him. (WEC.tv)

"I think that sport's good and the participants are tough guys -- but Ultimate Fighting's not a pimple on the ass of boxing." - Boxing analyst Teddy Atlas, not a pimple on the ass of me. (Boxing Fanhouse)