Roy Nelson

Everybody hates a whiner.

I think just more that it's okay for fighters to have a self-esteem. I think I've kind of shown that that's okay. And as long as you put the hard work in, you can accomplish anything.

I guess there's a showmanship in fighting.

I'm always interested in furthering our sport. Like, I would love to be a correspondent newsperson, somebody who informs the fans a little bit more and able to bring a little more closure to our sport where it's more of a black and white as opposed to the gray area.

I think I'd do pretty well with Fedor.

A good wrestler, with good jiu jitsu and great boxing, can beat Fedor.

I think Lesnar could probably beat Fedor, just from pure size.

My goal is to always fight the best in the world and put on a show for the fans.

You have all that muscle on you, you're going to get tired. That's why I prefer to be fat.

Carwin, he seems like he trains for five one-minute rounds. That's his championship fight, apparently.

I'd fight anyone I've ever lost to.

If you've got a mortgage, and you've got bills to pay, you might tend to do some stupid things.

If you made the choice to get in there and fight, you have to accept accountability for whatever happens.

I go where the fans want me.

Stupid can't fix stupid.

A lot of people out there are bullies, and they pick on people and call people names. You need to grow up from that, and you need to become a better person.

On any given day, I know on any given day I can beat anyone else and knock out anyone else out.

I'm usually looking to wrestle and grapple, but I guess the knockouts just happen.

Stipe's one of the top guys in the UFC. He wouldn't be in the UFC if he wasn't one of the best in the world.

I'm just a fat guy.

I just want to be agreeable; I want to be a pleaser. And that's all I want to do. I want to please the fans or the haters. One or the other.

If you can't beat me, you need to get some new coaches or something.

Jiu jitsu 101: make the other guy do all the work.

I'm one of those heavyweights who'd like to fight as often as possible.

I like to actually fight. It's just in my blood.

We're in this business to make money, but then nobody wants to talk about how much money we're making. That's serious, but nobody will talk about it.

For me, the biggest thing with Overeem, he's a K-1 champ, Strikeforce champ, DREAM champ, you name it. He's had every belt in there.

When you think what Big Country could be, I could be that guy.

I relate more to 90 percent of America because I look like 'em, act like 'em. I'm not above anybody; I put my pants on the same way. Some guys try to live up to their persona. I'm just me.

TV makes you look taller and fatter.

Anybody that was from the old Pride days is a fighter.

That was the best part of the Pride guys - they'd go out and entertain. They'd either get knocked out or knock somebody out; they were always trying to finish the fight.

I think with every heavyweight, there's a style that makes for a different fight with different fighters.

Just go out there against the best fighters in the world and see where I stand. That's what I want.

When I grappled, I never even trained for a grappling match.

I just remember I used to go to each tournament to make a couple bucks. I did as a living thing; I got paid to do martial arts, so I'd go to these jiu-jitsu tournaments and make, like, $1000 every time I won the tournament.

MMA has a lot of those things that you're not allowed to talk about; like, they're completely off-limits. So you have to make a joke out of it.

I'm always down to fight a legend of the sport.

I'm not a UFC athlete. I'm a UFC fighter.

To me, everything is a joke in MMA when it comes to serious topics because you can't really talk seriously about anything in our business.

The one thing that always sucks about me is that I'm just a fighter, and I just love to fight.

The thing is that anybody in the heavyweight division can be champion any day just because of one punch.

Anytime I come to any organization, I have my sights on the belt.

I can always fight the best in the world.

One of the things in marriage is you have to understand what appreciation is about, and that'll keep me for longevity. That's why my fans love me, because I appreciate them. Because with no fans, there would be no sport, no fighting for me, no UFC, no Bellator, no Rizin; there'd be nothing without the fans.

What brought me to Bellator was Scott Coker, Viacom, and one of my good friends, Mike Kogan.

Our sport was founded on the tournament.

You learn from your mistakes, and you grow from them.

The one thing about the heavyweight division or, actually, just being in the UFC, anybody can win, and anybody can lose. You're competing with the best in the world.

The only thing that's going to be more epic than Roy Nelson fighting Mark Hunt is Roy Nelson fighting for the belt. Those are two fights that I know fans want to see.