“I’m going to show the difference between the champ and second place.”
― Rafael dos Anjos
“I’m an aggressive fighter, but I’m smart. I’m not going to play stupid.”
― Rafael dos Anjos
“People treat you one way when you’re champion, but when you’re not the champion, everything changes. People treat you different.”
― Rafael dos Anjos
“My goal is to always be improving my skills.”
― Rafael dos Anjos
“I get paid the same money if I’m fighting on pay-per-view or on Fight Pass, and Fight Pass is just getting started. It’s the future. The Internet, many people watch it.”
― Rafael dos Anjos
“I want to do that. That’s my goal. I want to become a legend.”
― Rafael dos Anjos
“Every fight and every loss taught me something.”
― Rafael dos Anjos
“Coming from where I came from, I was born naked with no teeth. Now I have everything.”
― Rafael dos Anjos
“Every night that I put my head on the pillow, I go to sleep knowing that I can do more. I’m working toward perfection. I’m trying to be the best ever.”
― Rafael dos Anjos
“It doesn’t matter who they put in front of me, I just want people to remember me.”
― Rafael dos Anjos
“Ever since I was 10 years old doing jiu-jitsu, I’ve done well against the tall guys.”
― Rafael dos Anjos
“I think it’s a loser’s mentality to get happy with somebody losing.”
― Rafael dos Anjos
“I wouldn’t be where I am without Evolve.”
― Rafael dos Anjos
“People don’t believe in me very much, but I have my teammates and my family that believe in me so much; they see how hard I work.”
― Rafael dos Anjos
“If I don’t fight McGregor, I still have a good life.”
― Rafael dos Anjos
“I think money comes and goes. What comes easy goes easy.”
― Rafael dos Anjos
“I think social media is good for promotion, stuff like that, but people are so negative. People are too negative. If you read the comments, it’s just too negative.”
― Rafael dos Anjos
“We have a lot of Brazilians in the United States. It doesn’t mean we’re traitors to our country.”
― Rafael dos Anjos
“Everybody likes money. I like money. I need money to survive. But I don’t love money. Money is not my god.”
― Rafael dos Anjos
“I think between 2014 and 2015, I made weight five times in 11 months. During that time, I felt my body change. It was able to hold on to more weight. And anybody who makes weight knows that it gets harder and harder to make weight once you’ve done it that many times.”
― Rafael dos Anjos
“If you’re out for two years, and you beat one guy with a full-time job, without disrespect, but we’re talking about fighting for a world title. You can’t just beat a guy that went there to cover some guy that got injured, and then this guy, after two and a half years, gets a title shot.”
― Rafael dos Anjos
“I beat Diaz, Pettis, Ben Henderson, Cerrone, and I earned it, man. I earned my title.”
― Rafael dos Anjos
“Nate Diaz is a tough opponent. I’ve fought him.”
― Rafael dos Anjos
“I’m the former lightweight champion. I want to fight one of the top guys. I don’t want to fight a guy who isn’t ranked.”
― Rafael dos Anjos
“Cerrone is a great opponent. The guy won eight fights straight.”
― Rafael dos Anjos
“I am surrounded by great people.”
― Rafael dos Anjos
“I’m a big fan of Georges St-Pierre.”
― Rafael dos Anjos
“A lot of people tell me I have to trash-talk more, but I got here with my fists, fighting, not with my mouth.”
― Rafael dos Anjos
“You have to respect your opponent.”
― Rafael dos Anjos
“You can promote fights – of course, you have to – you can say ‘I’ll beat you’ or whatever, but you cannot put family, religion, anything like that in the mix. You need to separate things. That is a line a lot of fighters cross.”
― Rafael dos Anjos
“I’m under contract. Whatever the UFC asks, I have to do because they are my bosses and they treat me very well. I can’t complain about that, and it’s this, man: When you have a boss, you need to follow orders.”
― Rafael dos Anjos
“The future is out of my hands; it is in God’s.”
― Rafael dos Anjos
“I’m confident, motivated.”
― Rafael dos Anjos
“I’m looking to make history.”
― Rafael dos Anjos
“I don’t do fight camps anymore because I live in camp.”
― Rafael dos Anjos
“I breathe martial arts every day of my life.”
― Rafael dos Anjos
“I think every fight is different based on who is fighting.”
― Rafael dos Anjos
“I’m the best in the world; thank you, Jesus, for that.”
― Rafael dos Anjos
“I came from the bottom. Now I’m the main event and UFC champion.”
― Rafael dos Anjos
“It wasn’t easy to get here, and it will not be easy to take my title away from me.”
― Rafael dos Anjos
“I want people to remember me as a guy who works hard.”
― Rafael dos Anjos
“I always trained hard in my life to win the title, and I will train twice as hard to stay at the top.”
― Rafael dos Anjos
“I’m the kind of guy who always pushes really hard.”
― Rafael dos Anjos
“I’m always looking for perfection. Even after training and my coaches say I did good, I always think I could have done more.”
― Rafael dos Anjos
“I want to keep active, so when they called me to fight Nate Diaz, I agreed because I wanted to stay active. I got a little surprised because he was out so long, but he’s a tough opponent.”
― Rafael dos Anjos
“God makes everything in perfect time, and he doesn’t give you anything you can’t handle.”
― Rafael dos Anjos
“I’m always the underdog, and I go in there and win the fights.”
― Rafael dos Anjos
“Power is natural, but it can be improved with a lot of work. It’s been something I’ve focused on for a couple of years because I saw it as a place where I could make improvements.”
― Rafael dos Anjos
“I’m a calm-headed fighter. I do my job.”
― Rafael dos Anjos
“Everybody needs money, but I’m a fighter. For what I make, I’m happy with what I make. The money is not everything; it’s about honor.”
― Rafael dos Anjos
“I’ve learned that the key is to fight with no pressure.”
― Rafael dos Anjos
“When you put the pressure on yourself, it’s not good. If you fight afraid to lose, you wind up not fighting that good.”
― Rafael dos Anjos
“I just have to go out and fight my fight and fight to win.”
― Rafael dos Anjos
“Man, Ben Henderson, Donald Cerrone… these guys are a different level, man.”
― Rafael dos Anjos
“Cerrone, he’s a very good Muay Thai guy, very long.”
― Rafael dos Anjos
“Press conferences aren’t the best thing to do, but it’s part of the job.”
― Rafael dos Anjos
“I still have a lot to do, a lot to improve.”
― Rafael dos Anjos
“A lot of fighters come from Brazil. We’ve been doing this for long, long years.”
― Rafael dos Anjos
“When you want the belt, you have to work for it.”
― Rafael dos Anjos
“If I take two years off, I would want to fight as much as possible.”
― Rafael dos Anjos
“It was priceless. Being the UFC champion and having my kids in the Octagon, my wife, them holding the belt. That was like a movie.”
― Rafael dos Anjos
“Just to be fighting for the belt, I was already happy. No pressure at all.”
― Rafael dos Anjos
“People say McGregor is tall and all that. He’s as tall as I am, or maybe even shorter. He might have a longer reach, but I’ve fought Nate Diaz and Cerrone, who had reach advantage, and fought Anthony Pettis and Ben Henderson.”
― Rafael dos Anjos
“I was tested against the best.”
― Rafael dos Anjos
“The way I train, the way I spar, I’m out of my comfort zone every single day, and you can see the result in my fights.”
― Rafael dos Anjos
“Everybody talks. Anthony Pettis talked before the fight. Donald Cerrone talked before the fight. See what happened?”
― Rafael dos Anjos
“I have to take care of my family, my team, and my legacy.”
― Rafael dos Anjos
“Brazil is on my side.”
― Rafael dos Anjos
“Bro, how are you going to tap on the neck, on the choke? Go to sleep, man. Be a man.”
― Rafael dos Anjos
“If you look at my record, I have a clean record.”
― Rafael dos Anjos
“I do things right. No shortcuts.”
― Rafael dos Anjos
“I didn’t get any crazy sponsors. I don’t have any extra sponsors since I got the belt.”
― Rafael dos Anjos
“I don’t want to just be a champion, and I’m done with that. I wanna be a lightweight legend.”
― Rafael dos Anjos
“I think things will come once I get the respect that I deserve. Keeping my belt for a long time… Things will happen like normal. I can’t force those things.”
― Rafael dos Anjos
“I train to be the champion.”
― Rafael dos Anjos
“I don’t want to lose what I’ve won.”
― Rafael dos Anjos
“Now that I’ve achieved my goal to win the belt, I want to be the best of all times. I want to be remembered as the lightweight with most title defenses.”
― Rafael dos Anjos
“I train to fight five rounds, but if we can end the fight in the first round, it’s even better.”
― Rafael dos Anjos
“I fight because I like challenges.”
― Rafael dos Anjos
“I like my life. I like competing, but it’s not just because of the money.”
― Rafael dos Anjos
“Eddie Alvarez, man, he’s a tough guy.”
― Rafael dos Anjos
“Ben Henderson, he had never been knocked out before fighting me.”
― Rafael dos Anjos
“What made me move up to welterweight was all the effort I was doing, to look at my health and have a good life. I wanted to stop sacrificing so much.”
― Rafael dos Anjos
“When I was 16 years old, I weighed 176 pounds.”
― Rafael dos Anjos
“It was tough to make weight against Cerrone, and I passed out three times making weight for the Eddie Alvarez fight. One day you get to the limit.”
― Rafael dos Anjos
“I fought well at 155, but I don’t think I ever came close to my best at 155. I think I’ll get to my best at 170 pounds.”
― Rafael dos Anjos
“When you’re a fighter, and you’re not doing good in your work, that happens – you lost the fight.”
― Rafael dos Anjos
“People see me because I’m winning my fights. That’s how I want people seeing me.”
― Rafael dos Anjos
“I need talk more, call people out. It’s not who I am, but I feel I need to do this more to bring more attention for me.”
― Rafael dos Anjos
“The whole world has American dreams. This country has people from all parts of the world. We have Irish who live here, we have Brazilians.”
― Rafael dos Anjos
“We have people around the world who live in the United States, and these people don’t deserve to be called traitors.”
― Rafael dos Anjos
“I’m not a trash talker. I respect my opponents.”
― Rafael dos Anjos
“I talk the truth. I don’t trash talk, I just talk the truth.”
― Rafael dos Anjos
“I think to get a title shot, you need to have some expressive winnings.”
― Rafael dos Anjos
“I don’t want to fight anybody that just wants to hold you and try and eat the time.”
― Rafael dos Anjos
“I like to fight, and I think the fans want to see a good fight, too.”
― Rafael dos Anjos
“In the future, I want to have super-fights.”
― Rafael dos Anjos
“I miss submitting people; I have a lot of confidence in my jiu-jitsu.”
― Rafael dos Anjos
“I think Robbie Lawler is a good name and a fight that interests me.”
― Rafael dos Anjos
“Everything I want to do in my life, I want to be at the top.”
― Rafael dos Anjos
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