102 Quotes by Demian Maia

The striking game is always a lottery game, so I prefer to take the safe situation. Submission is the best for me. I'm the guy looking for it all the time.

Everybody has their own opinions and you cannot please everybody. I'm never going to try to do that - to please everybody - because there is always somebody who will say they don't like it.

I'm sure about my style. I always go to fight. I always go to be aggressive.

It's hard to be in the UFC one year.

You can't compare my background to the Gracies', not only in technique, but in terms of business and marketing.

Don't get me wrong - I love going to academy every day and training as hard as I can; I love to learn. But I have other plans. When you are in the UFC, you gotta save 80 percent of your time for that. I want to do other nice stuff, other things that give me pleasure also.

My jiu-jitsu is very good, and anytime I'm able to show what my coaches and my team are capable of doing, I really enjoy it.

I always try and use my jiujitsu to win fights. That's my favorite method of securing victory.

My wife never comes to watch me fight, she gets too nervous, so do my family. They will only watch it on the television after they know the outcome.