"When I think about the skill level of Andrey Koreshkov, he is at the top of his game and at an elite level."
"I always love meeting other promoters."
"I grew up as a martial artist, and I'm still a martial artist at heart."
"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."
"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."
"Great fights means great TV ratings."
"Sport is made to be live. You can't watch something three hours later already knowing the results; it's not the same experience."
"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."
"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."
"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?"
"Martial arts is something I studied since I was 6 years old."
"I've taught martial arts to many children, from 5 years old and up - there's character development, there's respect, discipline, perseverance."
"To say martial arts, or the combative form - mixed martial arts - is not an art form is incorrect."
"Martial arts is self-growth. It's artistic impression. It's self-defense... it doesn't have any place in politics."
"I don't think that 25-year-olds should be fighting 40-year-olds."
"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."
"You can't put an age on power."
"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."
"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'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."
"You can only control your own destiny."
"I worked for a Japanese company called K1 for a while."
"I used to go to fights in Japan, mega shows at soccer stadiums. They would have all kinds of martial arts fights in one night."
"I thought, 'If I can create a business to promote martial arts, that'd sure be a lot of fun.'"
"When I was a kid, there were probably 100 schools in the Bay Area that just did martial arts."
