WHITE NOISE
"Jeremy Lappen, the three-time loser you have a law degree get a real fucking job. Your parents must be really bummed out. Go screw up someone's fucking court case." - UFC President Dana White doesn't have a law degree (Yahoo)
"You got a rich daddy. You can live at home with your Mom and Dad (and) live in the basement. You don't even have to get a job you can just hang out at nightclubs and DJ and go back to the basement you little fucker." - White, talking about the little rapper kid Jared Shaw
“The hard part is people put these guys up on these pedestals -- whether it’s an athlete or actor -- like they can do no wrong. They’re fucking human beings. They make mistakes and things happen. Everybody has problems in their life and everybody wants to just start crushing people when they make mistakes." - White, defending Quinton Jackson (Boston Herald)
“It’s like he lost something. That year off, I don’t know what it was with him. But he doesn’t have that killer instinct; he doesn’t go after it. This kid used to be so cocky. … He was good; he was walking through heavyweights. He took that year off, all the contract stuff, and hasn’t been the same guy since. I don’t know what’s wrong with him.” - White, who is partly responsible for Brandon Vera's year long layoff (ESPN)
"If Couture loses to Lesnar, I don't know how much more interest there is in a Fedor v Couture fight." - White, trying to kill Couture/Emelianenko? (Bloody Elbow)
MAYBE WE'LL GET THE VINCE RUSSO SWERVE
"I think my weakness is I’m so nice with everybody. For this fight, I’m not going to be nice. I can say we have [a] beef. I’m angry. I’m pissed. I want to kick his ass." - UFC Lightweight Hermes Franca, on the fued between himself, American Top Team, and Marcus Aurelio (Sherdog)
"I know the gameplan. He’s going to try to take me down. That’s what he tries to do in his fights. I’m going to work my sprawl and beat his ass." - Franca
"I think it will be awesome, because there will be both guys trying to kill each other. He’s got to hate me, and I got to hate him. He’s not my teammate anymore. He’s not my student anymore. He’s not with us anymore. He got kicked out of ATT." - American Top Team Lightweight Marcus Aurelio
A LOOK BEHIND THE CURTAIN
“I was there cageside and watched the whole thing happen. I think (CBS) got cold feet watching. The way the Ken Shamrock pullout was handled, all the way from the beginning to the end with Seth Petruzelli. Watching Jared Shaw jumping up and down and screaming as a representative of the company, I think (it) was disgusting and embarrassing.” - Pro Elite Consultant T.J. Thompson (MMA Weekly
"I don’t have a smoking gun, (but) I’ve been around long enough, I’ve talked to enough people that were there, I won’t name names of executives in the company that I know — Seth was paid to stand up. I’m confident of that. If the commission wants to talk to me, I’ll tell them what I know." - Thompson, I don't think the commission came to talk to him
THE RIC FLAIR OF MMA
"It's like this if they continue to boo, I'm going to give them a lot to boo about because I'm going to become the UFC champion and then they're really going to be pissed off." - UFC Welterweight Josh Koscheck, stylin' and profilin' (Yahoo)
"I think it's good for the sport. I think it gives people something to relate to. When you act a certain way people might like it and people might hate it. You might get a bad rep but they're going to tune in because they want to see what you're going to do next." - Koscheck, whooooooooooo!
DID THE INVESTIGATION BEGIN AND END WITH QUESTIONING JEREMEY LAPPEN AND JARED SHAW?
"After Mr. Molloy's preliminary inquiry ... it was found that there is no reason to believe that the rumored allegation was true." - Florida State Boxing Commission Press Secretary Alexis Antonacci (MMA Junkie)
MORE FROM THAT CRAZY RUSSIAN
"Dana says UFC’s doors are wide open. Maybe they are. But these doors also shut tightly once the fighter signs with the organization. Randy Couture came back to the UFC and what now? Instead of fighting the best in the promotion he has to fight a young upstart with 2-1 pro-record. Couture might not survive all the three contractual fights. I’m afraid that’s being made in order to finish the star which is Randy and not let him fight Fedor." - Fedor's manager Vadim Finkelstein, crazy Russian conspiracy theorist (M1 Mix Fight)
I WONDER IF THEY USED PAINT CANS AND MARBLES
"They were lined up in stagger formation a few feet apart and three to five feet from us so there was no way we could make contact with them, but they could make contact with us. They spoke in clear and concise language. They were pros and that’s what bothered me the most about them. They knew what they were doing exactly and what they were going for." - UFC Light Heavyweight Brandon Vera, describing the home invasion of trainer Lloyd Irvin (Sherdog)
"As soon as he left, Master Lloyd starting telling him that he was going to throw up, saying, ‘I don’t feel good. I don’t understand what you’re telling me to do. The guy is pointing around with the gun trying to tell Master Lloyd what to do and Master Lloyd said every time he saw the gun wave to the side he said, ‘Got it. Got it. Got it.’ And then he said the guy waved the gun one more time and that’s when he just grabbed it, pinned him up against the wall, pushed the gun into his stomach and pushed the release on the gun for the magazine to drop out." - Vera
"I went and trained the morning after. Later on I went to train for a session that evening. I was still nervous about being in a crowd. I had to sleep with a gun on me. I’m getting my license so I could carry wherever I go now. It’s changed my thinking a lot because if it could happen to me it could happen to anybody. It doesn’t matter where you’re living at, neighborhood or wherever." - Vera
"I can honestly tell you that was my most favorite fight ever. I enjoyed that fight immensely. The whole thing was great. We just kept hitting each other really hard. That was a growing, learning experience for me. That fight was bad ass; I enjoyed it thoroughly." - Vera, is that really your favorite fight?
BROCK SMASH!
"I have never failed a fucking drug test." - UFC Heavyweight Brock Lesnar, making me wonder why ESPN doesn't ask all of the 6'4", 350 lbs NFL players about their steroid use (Yahoo)
"My ass he is. I'm 31 and I'm not as strong as I was 10 years ago. That's a straight up lie." - Lesnar, :heart: Brock
PARADE OF DELUSION
"Who is ten times better than Anderson Silva" - UFC Middleweight Patrick Cote, comparing the jiu jitsu skill of Anderson Silva and Ricardo Almeida (Bloody Elbow)
“I just have to execute our game plan the day of the fight. It’s going to be a very hard fight, but we’re very confident that we are going to win. I will knock him out. He’s the best fighter in the world, so it’s going to be very good to be world champion and to have a win against the best fighter in the world at the same time.” - Cote, there's only so much that GSP's positive mental imaging techniques can do for you, buddy (Sherdog)
PARTING SHOTS
"I tell everyone I feel like the (DREAM) title is mine. I wear it on my sleeve." - Dream Lightweight Eddie Alvarez (MMA Junkie)
"We freeze the paintballs to inflict extra pain." - UFC Middleweight Anderson Silva, badass (UFC All Access)
"You’ve got to earn the right to get a title shot and I probably haven’t done that yet – I don’t think I have. But that’s what I want to do – I want to earn it, I don’t just want to be given it because I’m from the UK." - UFC Middleweight Michael Bisping, on a crash course for Rich Franklin or Dan Henderson (The Sun)
“I didn’t like that they put Brock Lesnar against Randy Couture. I think that it would be fair to put ‘Minotauro’ Nogueira against Couture -- it had to be a fight between these two. Despite having been champion once, I’ve not found it fair that Frank Mir is fighting for the belt. I had two great victories where I was very superior to my opponents, Gabriel Gonzaga and Brandon Vera. I’ve won by myself -- not the judges." - UFC Heavyweight and uncrowned number one contender Fabricio Werdum, getting the Lyoto Machida treatment (Sherdog)
“I got plenty of money. I don’t even care. I just do it for fun. I love fighting, but I’m just doing it for fun. I don’t feel like doing it right now, so I’m not going to do it. There’s no need. There’s no need for me to fight, so I’m just happy to have lived such a fun career inside of MMA, so if it ends now, it was fun.” - Jason Miller, he'll probably fight by 2010 (MMA Mania)
“I oppose 100 percent this ultimate fighting. It has taken boxing to the era of the caveman and the Roman circus. These are not ancient times. This fighting is fed to those fans who like aggression, blood and illegality. They are not boxing fans. Boxing fans have class.” - Head of the WBC Jose Sulaiman, classy (Reuters Africa)