100 Quotes by Ryan Bader

The wrestling community is a tight community, I love you all.

We step up and fight the top names that nobody wants to fight. So if I hear people saying, 'oh, you're ducking this or ducking that,' no I haven't ducked anybody.

We've always taken every single fight that was offered.

I'm in this sport to win a championship.

You can call Roy Nelson a wrestler, but he's never fought a dynamic, explosive wrestler.

My mindset has changed. When I was fighting guys like Glover I was second-guessing myself. Am I the best in the world? Do I deserve to be up here. Now I know it.

Winning is everything to us, but at the same time you've gotta have exciting fights and keep pushing it in that way.

For me, I feel like every time I go out there, I have to prove something, because whether it's fans or the fighters I'm going to fight potentially or am scheduled to fight, there's always an excuse of why I won.

I was very new to the sport when I entered 'The Ultimate Fighter' and basically got by on my athletic ability and my wrestling. I've since added a lot more tools to my game and continue to develop as a mixed martial artist.