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

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

" 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. "

" I'd like to see Melvin Manhoef fight Robbie Lawler. "

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

" Mike Goldberg and Mauro Ranallo are two of the best in our business, and I couldn't be happier about them joining the Bellator family. "

" I always love meeting other promoters. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" I love big events. It reminds me of the old days, when I knew everyone on the fight card, and it wasn't just one fight. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" Strikeforce is here to stay; we are definitely going to do our part to grow the sport and be good ambassadors of the sport. "

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