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" 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 something I studied since I was 6 years old. "

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

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

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

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

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

" You get a world-class athlete like Hershel Walker, who was a Heisman trophy winner and did some amazing things, but he had a martial arts background. He did kickboxing. He had a combat sports background. It was just rekindling that training and that martial arts workout ethic. He got back into it and did quite well. "

" When I think about the skill level of Andrey Koreshkov, he is at the top of his game and at an elite level. "

" One of the most popular MMA fighters ever, Kimbo was a charismatic, larger-than-life personality that transcended the sport. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" I've taught martial arts to many children, from 5 years old and up - there's character development, there's respect, discipline, perseverance. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Spike is an entertainment company. So why not have entertaining fights when you can do them? "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" MMA has evolved. When you look at an MMA fighter's skill set, boxing has to be a big piece of it. All of them have a boxing coach now and strive to have a good stand-up game, knowing that to be a complete fighter, you have to tend to your striking skills. "

" Great fights means great TV ratings. "

" 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. "

" 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. "