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" A lot of fighters want that freedom to have their own sponsorships. When you think about it, how do you make independent contractors wear a uniform? That just seems strange to me. "

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" We've always looked for guys and girls who have striking ability... there's a reason my past company was called Strikeforce. "

Scott Coker

Past

Always

Company

" I think I'm going to be a juggler when I retire from the promotion business one day. "

" It's not every day you are able to sign a top-10 athlete, let alone two in the same week. "

" Sport is made to be live. You can't watch something three hours later already knowing the results; it's not the same experience. "

" We have a zero tolerance policy here at Bellator when it relates to any form of domestic violence. "

" When I was a kid, there were probably 100 schools in the Bay Area that just did martial arts. "

" Hugh Hefner represented pop culture in a way that no else could. "

" Sometimes the fighter or an athlete feels they're valued a certain price, and sometimes we don't feel that way. "

" I'm not a union guy in the sense that I know a lot about how they operate. But I know fighters. They are individual athletes. This is not a team sport. I think it's going to be hard to say, 'Hey, do you mind not fighting on Saturday and walking around the arena with a picket sign instead?' I just don't see it. "

" I thought, 'If I can create a business to promote martial arts, that'd sure be a lot of fun.' "

" I'm not thinking of any other leagues. I'm really not. I'm thinking of what can I do to move Bellator forward. I'm thinking of what we need to fix, what fighters we should sign, where we can expand internationally. "

" When I first came to Bellator, I wanted to take it back to what we accomplished at Strikeforce and look at the next generation. So we signed the Aaron Picos of the world and put them in our development programme to nurture them. "

" Tournaments, traditionally, are kind of the way martial arts contests happen. "

" Our sport has great fighters and great fans. And the fans really get to connect to those fighters. "

" I would say, look, any fighter that's out there or any star athlete - not star athlete in the sense of a baseball player, but like a Brock Lesnar - that really wants to fight, we're going to have a conversation with them. Because if they can move the needle, we're going to want them on Spike TV. "

" I'm excited to see Jake Hager debut for Bellator in 2018. When I heard he was seriously interested in competing in MMA, and when you look at what he did at the collegiate level, I was very interested in having him on our roster. "

" The experience I've had with Strikeforce kickboxing, K1, Strikeforce MMA, working with ESPN, working with Showtime, working with Japanese television, working with fighter camps from all over the world has given me a unique perspective. "

" You can only control your own destiny. "

" You can't put an age on power. "

" Martial arts is something I studied since I was 6 years old. "

" That's the thing about the fight business is that you don't know what's going to happen. "

" Let's go back to super-fights. Let's put on fights that are great live or on television. "

Scott Coker

Back

Television

" We're not going to do monthly pay-per-view just to do pay-per-views. We're going to build up to big fights more like the boxing model, and when the time is right, we'll do the big, big fights. "

Scott Coker

Right

Time

" If you look at Germany and France, a couple other countries, those are really kickboxing markets. "

" I think boxing is on the rise because of what Floyd Mayweather and Conor McGregor did. I think they captured the time and made boxing cool again. "

" We want Bellator to be a destination for not only the top-tier fighters in the sport, but the first-choice destination for fans to see the most entertaining fights in the sport. "

" Martial arts is self-growth. It's artistic impression. It's self-defense... it doesn't have any place in politics. "

" In Strikeforce, we're committed to putting on the best fights that we can. "

" I don't think that 25-year-olds should be fighting 40-year-olds. "

" I think the MMA and boxing are different audiences. I think it's a different intrigue. There's no reason you can't be a fan of both; why does it have to be one or the other? "