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" At the end of the day, it's a business about fighters and a business about people. This is our philosophy. "

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

" When you think about martial arts here in the states, kickboxing was here in the '70s, and it kind of ran its course. But I always felt there was a place in combat sports for kickboxing. "

" Whereas there's more of a learning curb with MMA, kickboxing is pretty easy to understand and has no geographical boundaries. "

" 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. "

" You can only control your own destiny. "

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

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

" MMA has a great safety record. I was always confused as to why it was illegal in New York in the first place. "

" 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? "

" If a legend fight comes up, or if a fun fight comes up that makes sense, and the fans want to see it, then we're going to do it. We're not going to be afraid to do those fights. "

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

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

" I grew up as a martial artist, and I'm still a martial artist at heart. "

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

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

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

" To say martial arts, or the combative form - mixed martial arts - is not an art form is incorrect. "

" 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. "

" MMA fans should thank Spike TV for their commitment to the sport. "

" It's good to team up with Spike and Viacom. I see a lot of potential. "

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

" 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. "

" As a martial arts promoter and as a fan of martial arts, you go, 'What would happen if this guy fought this guy?' "

" 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. "

" The welterweight division has really emerged as one of our most exciting weight classes. "

" In my years of doing the K1 fights, one thing I've learned is that the guys who you think will be there in the end - very rarely do you get the match up you were hoping for. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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