Glover Teixeira

I'm a guy who looks to put the pressure and come out with the knockout or the submission.

I want Shogun because he's a legend of the sport. I respect him very much. He has good style and it matches with mine. I want to fight him in Brazil.

Jiu-jitsu is my strong suit, but I trust my wrestling and my striking.

I'm ready for anything they can put in front of me.

I believe in my wrestling and I believe in my jiu-jitsu.

I don't like fights that go to decision.

I love to compete in Abu Dhabi. I've been there two times, in 2009 and 2011, and it was a great show. It's a great way to stay sharp because you're competing with the best grapplers in the world.

A lot of fighters just go to the gym and spar or wrestle, but they forget about their conditioning. Things like that cause lots of injuries.

Good conditioning helps you prepare your muscles, so I make sure I'm always strict with my conditioning.

Little injuries are always happening, so you've just got to train through those. You've also got to have the right training partners, people you trust.

I train with top guys like Chuck Liddell and Lyoto Machida, I have trained with Junior dos Santos and Cain Velasquez, and nobody have ever dominated me.

I have fought with 'Rampage' Jackson and I took him down easily. Honestly, I scored six takedowns effortlessly. I have fought Ryan Bader and I took him down too.

If they call me to fight Jon Jones, I'm ready to fight anyone in the UFC.

I have always fought top guys.

Gustafsson is a great fighter, real top notch, one of the best in the world.

I never turn down a fight.

I don't put much pressure on myself, because I'm strong mentally.

I don't much believe in the hype of anything or anybody, not even myself.

He sells, he knows how to talk, he's smart, he's no fool. McGregor doesn't fight, he just reacts, he's never first to throw a punch. He goes in there to tease, not to fight. He's like Muhammad Ali.

McGregor sells the show and fights well, he's a real athlete who doesn't get out of shape and is always training.

You do get injuries in this sport. More than in other sports.

This sport is brutal. This sport is a hard sport.

I have this mentality that I have to be prepared for everything.

You have to keep improving.

I want to fight Anthony Johnson again, for sure. I want to fight Jon Jones again. I want to fight the guys that beat me, those who are at the top.

I beat Ryan Bader, and that beautiful knockout got me a shot at the title. That's the kind of thing that puts you close to the top.

I don't have anything against Jon Jones. We are fighters and we do whatever we want with our lives.

I will fight anyone. I will always fight anyone, anywhere.

To err is human, but to persist in the mistake is ugly.

I'm like those gladiators from the past.

Cormier is an excellent fighter.

Anthony Smith is super tough.

I am Sobralia's biggest idol now; people love and support me a lot there. There are always some people to criticize you, but that's okay - 99.9 percent of the people there support me.

I'm a very simple guy.

Jon Jones is at the top for a long time, can't say enough about him.

Every phenom goes down one day.

In boxing, you have the 10-second count but we don't have it in MMA, and that's what makes this sport better.

That's the secret, hit without getting hit.

I'm not one of the guys that's going to hold back and try to win on points.

I'm confident, and I'm well trained.

I lost my first professional fight, but came back and won fights until I fought for the world title.

I think Cormier and I would be a great fight. I will do everything I can to make it happen.

I always wanted to fight Cormier. He has this fighting style, he's a warrior, I always wanted to fight someone like him, a guy like 'Rampage,' someone who moves forward and fights.

I will always fight tough fights, and that's what I need in order to get to the belt.

I just want to prove to myself and to the fans that I deserve to be in the UFC.

In the UFC, it's about names. Every fight is hard, and everybody knows all the disciplines. Some might know more than others.

The past is the past, and I can't go back in time to change anything.

Guys want to make a name for themselves, they look at my age and think they will run over me. It's not like that, though. I'm tougher than that.

The guys I lost to always challenged the title, because they were, like, title eliminators. I lost to Alexander Gustafsson and Anthony Johnson and they fought for the belt. Then I won fights against really tough guys.

I want to fight guys who are in the title mix.