100 Quotes by Alexander Volkanovski

I said as soon as I got the belt, I want number one contenders.

Actually, when I first started dropping weight to fight, my biggest worry was how my smaller body would look compared to the size of my massive head.

I wrestled before rugby league so I always had a pretty good wrestling background, a good base, and that helped with my football. It just meant my balance was always so good; a strong core, good hips and just things like that just really played a factor in how I ran the ball and tackled.

I made promises to myself and my family that I'd be in the UFC before my first daughter was born, that didn't happen. I was almost at breaking point a week before I got that contract, I was going to go back to concreting - that weekend I get my major sponsor, which was huge, and I end up getting my UFC contract the weekend after that.

I'm the type of person, I'll fight whoever.

Sometimes there's just no room for apologies.

Fighters now, they think you have to trash talk to be marketable. Yet so much of what they're saying, it bores me.

If there's one thing I'd say to anyone out there, is that if you're in this game, it's a rollercoaster. There's a lot of ups and downs.

You know I am all about the good guys, but sometimes we get put to the back of the line because we are too nice.