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Visiting Anderson Silva. He's doing AMAZING! Leg is healing fast and will be walking without crutches in 30 days.
Dana White / Businessman
Anderson Silva
Healing
Legs
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Look at what George Foreman did to Michael Moorer. No matter his age, he hits so hard that he's always in a fight.
Dana White / Businessman
Michael
Foreman
George
George Foreman
Hits
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Nevada is a very scary place. This is the worst commission on the planet. I am afraid to bring fights to Las Vegas.
Dana White / Businessman
Las Vegas
Nevada
Vegas
Fights
Commission
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The thing about Twitter is it goes directly to your phone like I sent you a text. It's so powerful, it's unbelievable.
Dana White / Businessman
Unbelievable
Directly
Text
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When you talk about somebody being your world champion, you couldn't ask for a better human being than Daniel Cormier.
Dana White / Businessman
Daniel
World Champion
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I used to laugh at MMA and say 'do you know what a boxer would do to an MMA guy?' and then I got educated on the truth.
Dana White / Businessman
Do You Know
Educated
Mma
Boxer
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All you've ever seen in the UFC was the greatest athletes in the world. Never, ever did we do a freakshow and we won't.
Dana White / Businessman
Ufc
Athletes
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My legacy to me is-when I drop dead and they're at my funeral - I want my three kids to get up and say, 'He's an awesome dad'.
Dana White / Businessman
Kids
Dad
Mma
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If you get into something that you're passionate about, and if you really believe in it, you gotta get up every day and fight.
Dana White / Businessman
Passionate
Gotta
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There are things that some Democrats say I agree with and some things that I disagree with. And it's the same with the Republicans.
Dana White / Businessman
Disagree
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It's unbelievable how good Jon Jones really is. It's the minute he steps out of the octagon, you never know what's going to happen.
Dana White / Businessman
Steps
Unbelievable
Good Never Know
Jon
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As long as we have enough fighters and fight cards to keep everybody fighting three times a year, that's where I want our roster to be.
Dana White / Businessman
Cards
Fighters
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Boxing is very one dimensional. You can hit to the head, you can hit to the body. As soon as two guys get into a clinch, you're separated.
Dana White / Businessman
Boxing
Separated
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Am I a little rough around the edges? Do I say things that people don't like sometimes? Do I swear a lot? Yes, yes, yes. Life's hard, man.
Dana White / Businessman
Edges
Rough
Swear
Life Man People
Yes
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Chuck Liddell loves to fight. That's his passion. That's what he loves in life. But there comes a day and age - fighting is a young man's game.
Dana White / Businessman
Chuck
Life Age Man
Day And Age
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I don’t care what colour you are, I don’t care what country you’re from; we’re all human beings and fighting’s in our DNA. We get it, and we like it.
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Country
Dna
Fighting
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I don't dislike Matt Lindland. I didn't blackball him from the UFC, either. Matt Lindland is a good guy and I've never had a personal issue with him.
Dana White / Businessman
Dislike
Good Guy
Ufc
Matt
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There's plenty of people I don't like that we put fights on with. It's not up to me whether I like them or dislike them, it's what the fans want to see.
Dana White / Businessman
Dislike
Fans
Plenty
Me People See
Me People Fans
Fights
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We're all entitled to make mistakes. I'm not one of these guys where if you make a mistake, I'm gonna try to tear your life down and burn it to the ground.
Dana White / Businessman
Entitled
Life Where Your
Life Mistake Mistakes
Life Your Mistake
Burn
Tear
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I treat people and I deal with my fighters and I deal with the fans like a real person. I don't come out and read canned statements written by our lawyers.
Dana White / Businessman
Real Person
Statements
Canned
Fighters
Lawyers
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I like most of the guys in the sport. They're my friends. We're not going to mistreat the fighters. I wouldn't mistreat a friend and so I won't mistreat my fighters.
Dana White / Businessman
Mistreat
Fighters
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Don't be that guy that's laying in that hospital bed going, 'I wonder what would have happened if I tried it?' The worst thing that could happen is that it doesn't work.
Dana White / Businessman
Bed
Guy
Mma
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When Georges St-Pierre goes away, what's going to happen to the UFC? Uh-oh, when Anderson Silva is gone, what's going to happen?' The answer is: Yes, there are other stars.
Dana White / Businessman
Ufc
Anderson
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I like Mark Hunt and I've always said good things about Mark Hunt. He goes a little bit off the rails every now and again, but I've never done anything but respect Mark Hunt.
Dana White / Businessman
Good Things
Mark
Good Respect Always
Hunt
Rails
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The amount of negativity I hear on a daily basis is unbelievable. But that's the kind of stuff you have to tune out, focus, stick with your vision and keep plugging every day.
Dana White / Businessman
Amount
Focus
Negativity
Stuff
Unbelievable
Vision
Basis
Daily
Daily Basis
Day
Every Day
Hear
Plugging
Stick
Tune
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At the end of the day, when you're dealing with heavyweights who can punch, anything is possible. When you've got a big heavyweight who has knockout power, anything's possible.
Dana White / Businessman
Anything Is Possible
Power End Of The Day Day
Heavyweight
Punch
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We bought the UFC when not only was it a bankrupt company that was going under, it had a horrible stigma attached to it. This thing was so bad it was not allowed on pay-per-view.
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Horrible
Stigma
Ufc
Attached
Bankrupt
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Any new thing that comes out with the ability to enhance our show or my ability to communicate with fans and give people more behind-the-scenes access, you know we'll be all over it.
Dana White / Businessman
Communicate
Over It
People New Know
Enhance
People Fans New
New Thing
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I'd rather have too many good guys than not enough. It's a nice problem. They sort themselves out because when guys fight each other, they determine who deserves the title shot, not me.
Dana White / Businessman
Determine
Good Fight Me
Good Guys
Title
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As far as women fighting in MMA, I don't like it when the division isn't deep. I don't like to see a woman who's so much better than everybody else smashing other women. That's tough to watch.
Dana White / Businessman
Division
Fighting
Mma
Smashing
Tough
Everybody Else
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The absolute worst part of my job is having to cut people. I have to cut people after every show, that's just how it goes. But I don't judge you on wins and losses. What I do care about is a great fight.
Dana White / Businessman
Worst
Job
Absolute
Judge
Show
Great People Care
Cut
Fight
Goes
Losses
Wins
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One thing I can't prove, but I firmly believe is that two men were put on this earth - one threw a punch and a third guy came over and watched. And that happened before anybody ever threw or kicked a ball.
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Firmly
Punch
Threw
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You always think as an organization, obviously if you're in sports, you want to be with ESPN. ESPN is it. But you don't really realize how good ESPN is and how big their platform really is until you're in it.
Dana White / Businessman
Espn
Good Sports Always
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This country has been very good to us, every time we have a fight in the UFC it's incredible here in Australia and we want to go everywhere. We want to travel everywhere and continue to do fights all over the country.
Dana White / Businessman
Ufc
Time Good Travel
Fights
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One of my big philosophies is that fighting is the sport that crosses all borders. I don't care what color you are, what country you come from or what language you speak, fighting is in our DNA. We get it and we like it.
Dana White / Businessman
Borders
Crosses
Dna
Philosophies
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I'm a firm believer in... just because these guys are professional athletes or whatever, everybody's going to have an opinion on something, and not everybody's going to get along. I've had my words with fans on Twitter too.
Dana White / Businessman
Believer
Fans
Firm
Opinion
Words
Athletes
Whatever
Firm Believer
Guys
Professional Athletes
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It's not like I'm going to go out and change the world and convert everyone into MMA fans. There's going to be fans out there who are fans of combat sports and fans of contact sports but not everybody's going to be converted.
Dana White / Businessman
Sports
Combat
Contact
Fans
Mma
Change World Change The World
Change The World
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We're going to continue to go into markets that we've never been in, continue to grow the sport, continue to cultivate talent and the whole landscape of television is changing and I feel like we're ahead of the curve on that, too.
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Landscape
Cultivate
Curve
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I was a bellman - a great hotel, five-star hotel in Boston. I made great money. I made cash every day. I had good benefits. We had 401k. All the things you could ask for in a great job, I had. You know what I didn't have? I hated my job.
Dana White / Businessman
Great
Benefits
Boston
Cash
Great Job
Hated
Hotel
Made
Ask
Job
Good Money Great
Good Money Day
Had
Could
Day
Every Day
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Whatever it is that you're passionate about, whatever it is that you absolutely love, and whatever it is that you would get up out of bed every day and do for free, you should try to figure out a way to make money at it and give it a shot.
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Giving
Mma
Trying
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A lot of times, kids go to college and take a major because they do what they think they're supposed to do. I told them I believe 90 percent of America gets up in the morning and drives to a job they hate. That could have happened to me in the hotel industry.
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Jobs
Morning
Hate
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Anything can be changed. Anything can be fixed. Things that are broken can be fixed. And you don't have to be some billionaire or millionaire to do it. You just have to be a person with a vision and the passion to do it, and be willing to fight for it every day.
Dana White / Businessman
Billionaire
Broken
Changed
Fixed
Millionaire
Passion
Vision
Willing
Things
Person
Just
Anything
Every
Day
Fight
Every Day
Some
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Kimbo Slice the man, you watch the YouTube videos of this guy in backyards, and they start fighting and you think this guy's a thug. You think he's a bad guy, you have this perception of him and then you meet him, it isn't true. It's the exact opposite. He's a really good guy.
Dana White / Businessman
Good Guy
Perception
Thug
Youtube
Bad Guy
Exact
Exact Opposite
Slice
Videos
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With my fighters, there's no excuses like, 'Hey, listen, he's a dumb guy. Came from the mean streets of somewhere. He's just not all that bright.' These are educated guys, most of them went to college, they have families, children, etc. These are smart, rational people I'm dealing with.
Dana White / Businessman
College
Dumb
Educated
Etc
Guy
Hey
Rational
Smart
Streets
Somewhere
Bright
Came
Dealing
Excuses
Fighters
Guys
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I swear to God, if my kids, when they're 18, if they come to me and say, 'Dad, I love pumping gas. I love getting up in the morning, I love grabbing the handle, I love the smell of the gas station,' I'd say, 'Go for it,' because if you love it that much at 18, he's probably going to end up owning 25 gas stations by the time he's 30.
Dana White / Businessman
Gas
Grabbing
Handle
Smell
Swear
Love Time God
By The Time
Love God Time
Gas Station
Go For It
Owning
Pumping
Station
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Joe Lauzon is not seen as the top guy in his division, He's not the champion. Do you know how many people go f--- crazy when I saw Joe Lauzon is on the card? Because people love to watch him fight. Joe Lauzon has won more fighter bonuses than I think anybody. If you are that guy, the system works for you. But if you are not that guy, then boo f--- hoo, you don't matter.
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Crazy
Fighting
Thinking
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