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" Bellator has the best welterweight fighters in the world. "

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" 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. "

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

" There are a lot of details you have to work out when you're talking about fighters competing twice in one night. "

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

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

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

" If the fighter doesn't want to fight, you're not gonna want him to fight. If the fighter doesn't want to fight, the promoter doesn't make him fight. And if he wants to retire, then it's time to walk away. "

" We are all shocked and saddened by the devastating and untimely loss of Kimbo Slice, a beloved member of the Bellator family. "

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

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

" 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 buy the UFC pay-per-views that are on OnDemand, DirectTV, and DISH. As far as quality, come on. These are the best heavyweights in the world. I think everybody knows that. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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" I worked for a Japanese company called K1 for a while. "

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

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

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

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

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" All my fighters know I'm a fan of theirs. They know I think of them as the stars and that we will facilitate in the building of their stock. "