100 Motivating Jorge Masvidal Quotes

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You might have heard about Jorge Masvidal, who was born on 12 November 1984. He is an American mixed martial artist who has competed in the UFC’s welterweight division.

He has also played professionally for Bellator, Strikeforce, Shark Fights, and World Victory Road. Jorge Masvidal also set the record for the fastest knockout in UFC history at 5 seconds.

Also, on March 4, 2019, he is #11 in the official UFC welterweight rankings. Later, on July 14, 2020, he became #4 in the UFC welterweight rankings.

Similarly, he is the most trending personality in different channels of social media and the Internet nowadays. Here are 100 inspiring quotes by Jorge Masvidal that will help you.

UFC 'BMF' titleholder, Jorge Masvidal
UFC ‘BMF’ titleholder, Jorge Masvidal

“The main reason I’m in this sport is not to run mouths and make posts on Twitter and stuff. It’s to compete.” Jorge Masvidal

“If I can compete five, six times a year that would be perfect.” Jorge Masvidal

“I’m not a sock-em, rock-em type of guy.” Jorge Masvidal

“I got kicked out of school… I caused a lot of turbulence throughout those years.” Jorge Masvidal

“My dad was always a motivation, even when he wasn’t there.” Jorge Masvidal

“Let me make this clear: I think USADA has moved my sport forward in certain ways that I couldn’t have imagined.” Jorge Masvidal

“Nobody has ever wanted – they get forced to fight Yoel. Ask anybody.” Jorge Masvidal

“I thought eating Double Quarter Pounders with Big Mac sauce wasn’t that bad, but I guess it was.” Jorge Masvidal

“I’m not going to get tired in a 12 round boxing event, especially if I have time to prepare for it.” Jorge Masvidal

“I move my head. I don’t get hit.” Jorge Masvidal

 10th of 100 Jorge Masvidal Quotes 

“I’ve had to prove myself beyond that street-fighter image with some people in the UFC. It has a stigma to it.” Jorge Masvidal    

“When I get anxiety and depression and things like that, I take to eating.” Jorge Masvidal

“If they’re not the toughest fights I can get, then give me a complete washup, someone that’ll be an easy payday. But I’d rather have the toughest fights I can get so I can get to the title the fastest way possible.” Jorge Masvidal

“I can box. I can hit hard. I’ve got different angles”. Jorge Masvidal

Dana White, bring me someone that can beat me. You can’t find no one that can beat me.” Jorge Masvidal

“My mom would get up every day at 4 A.M. and worked two jobs. I always felt I was the poorest kid on the block. I had a chip on my shoulder about being broke.” Jorge Masvidal

“A lot of times I went to sleep hungry, and not because I was cutting weight for a fight.” Jorge Masvidal

“I could sit down and give USADA my opinions on it, but I want to say they’ve done a great job. Guys like me are shining because of USADA.” Jorge Masvidal

“It’s taken me 26 professional fights to seek out nutritional help and I finally did and it’s made a big change in my weight as far as weight cutting goes.” Jorge Masvidal

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“I don’t want any up-and-coming guys. I want someone that’s established already, that’s good.” Jorge Masvidal   

“I’m the type of guy if you say something right now, whenever I see you, I’m going to hold you to that.” Jorge Masvidal

“I can’t stay stuck in the past.” Jorge Masvidal

Jorge Masvidal quote on fight
Jorge Masvidal quote on fight

“I thought me hitting you and you not hitting me and me making you miss and even throwing more than you means that I won a fight.” Jorge Masvidal

“I’m a real fighter.” Jorge Masvidal

“I want to give big kudos to USADA. Can it be better? Yeah”. Jorge Masvidal

“You don’t spit on people, especially people’s corners.” Jorge Masvidal

“At any given moment, if I see my bully, the guy who’s trying to conquer me, we’re going to find out. And if we could fight every time we came across each other, we would.” Jorge Masvidal

“I’ve been fighting in people’s backyards my whole life.” Jorge Masvidal

“I grew up in Miami, Florida.” Jorge Masvidal

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“I was definitely done with 155, then when I heard they ended up banning IVs I was like, there’s no way I can make 55.” Jorge Masvidal   

“I just want to go out and compete. Plus the main thing is, at 55 I need a good amount of time to prepare just to make the weight cut. At 70 I can just take fights as they come and just compete as much as I want.” Jorge Masvidal

“This is a sport of a lot of knowledge, of knowing yourself well, knowing your soul and your spirit, your abilities both physically and mentally.” Jorge Masvidal

“If you look through my career, I put an end to a lot of guys never been knocked down, never been stopped.” Jorge Masvidal

“I never care about my opponents, especially now – I care about ‘Gamebred’ and ‘Gamebred’ is only going for the off button.” Jorge Masvidal

“I always cheer for my MMA brothers and sisters.” Jorge Masvidal

“I used to be a 55er, Conor used to be a 45er. I’m naturally a 70 pounder, Conor’s probably a natural 55er. I’m a small 70 pounder though and Conor’s a decent-sized 55er so the size is not that much. It’s not incomparable.” Jorge Masvidal

“I want to put money away in the bank.” Jorge Masvidal

“My body fat at 173 is five percent, so the rest is just straight water that I lose.” Jorge Masvidal

“Askren is that dude I’m not losing in any universe to.” Jorge Masvidal

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“In every fight the strategy is to baptize and take their soul – that’s always the strategy.” Jorge Masvidal       

“It’s simple, I’m a fighter, but on top of that I have to entertain the people.” Jorge Masvidal

“I’ve never pulled out of a fight.” Jorge Masvidal

“I just want to fight the best guys that there is in the world and make the most money out of it.” Jorge Masvidal

“I’ve got a big buzz going on because I’m known and put people to sleep.” Jorge Masvidal

“Usually with my opponents, I don’t care if they win the lottery or they die.” Jorge Masvidal

“I understand my role in this life, and my job is just to hurt people and get them out of there.” Jorge Masvidal

Ben Askren had never been knocked out when I got a hold of him.” Jorge Masvidal

“Definitely the title, definitely Kamaru Usman interests me.” Jorge Masvidal

“I’ve never tapped in my whole entire career.” Jorge Masvidal

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“If it was… let’s say they just banned 170, that it was either 55 or 85, I’d go to 185 before I’d go to 55.” Jorge Masvidal    

“Nobody is taking my lunch money.” Jorge Masvidal

“I can talk, I can express myself. But many times when people are talking just to talk, to say negative things, I don’t like it because this is not a negative sport.” Jorge Masvidal

“I’m here to compete and to keep beating people up.” Jorge Masvidal

Jorge Masvidal confidently fighting with Nick diaz
Jorge Masvidal confidently fighting with Nick Diaz

“Not that everybody needs to be Georges St-Pierre, but it would be cool if everybody was just themselves.” Jorge Masvidal

“I didn’t get a lot of questions asked earlier in my career, I guess. But I’ve always been the same guy, more or less.” Jorge Masvidal

“I want the biggest fight, no matter where it’s at.” Jorge Masvidal

“I want to fight the guys that are world-class beaters. That’s who I want to get in there with.” Jorge Masvidal

“I feel like if they added a few weight classes it wouldn’t change up the dynamics of the sport. You can still have champions and it wouldn’t be like boxing. Boxing got messed up, because they’ve got so many belts, so many unifications. It’s crazy.” Jorge Masvidal

“I’m a dirty south goon – damn right, I ain’t no West coast gangster.” Jorge Masvidal

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“We’re already going to fight, we’re going to test each other’s will. We don’t need everybody talking.” Jorge Masvidal      

“A fight is usually longer than five seconds.” Jorge Masvidal

“I don’t come from this technology world.” Jorge Masvidal

“I got taught respect because if not, somebody’s gonna make you respect them.” Jorge Masvidal

“I just like to fight, man. The place doesn’t really bother me.” Jorge Masvidal

“I do a very strict diet.” Jorge Masvidal

“My job is to hit somebody until the referee pulls me off.” Jorge Masvidal

“I’m not the type of dude who kicks somebody when they’re down.” Jorge Masvidal

“I’m just not going around disrespecting people.” Jorge Masvidal

“I’m not Ben Askren or a lot of these fighters. I’ve never called a reporter like, hey, I want to be on your show, book me, you know?” Jorge Masvidal

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“The more I tour the world, the more I see that people are just like me. They love violence.” Jorge Masvidal    

“I’ve been fighting professionally since I was 18, and I’ve been doing three or four fights a year, just doing camp after camp.” Jorge Masvidal

“I think the sport is growing and along with it weight classes have to be added.” Jorge Masvidal

“You know I could get hit with a baseball bat and it don’t mean nothing.” Jorge Masvidal

“I don’t want to fight no up-and-coming guy, no guy that’s 15-0 but hasn’t faced anybody yet.” Jorge Masvidal

“I do not want to fight Woodley because we’re cool. We’ve worked out so much together, and he’s looked out for me in the past with certain hookups that he had at the time. So I don’t want to fight that dude.” Jorge Masvidal

“There’s some people who violate that man-code of the gym.” Jorge Masvidal

“I don’t go around making conversation, I just kind of stick to myself.” Jorge Masvidal

“I asked for the toughest, best fights to my management, to my coaches.” Jorge Masvidal

“I’m a guy who’s in there everyday with world-class grapplers feeling that pressure.” Jorge Masvidal

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“I came to 170 and I got motivated and finally they started giving me ranked opponents.” Jorge Masvidal    

“When you’re up-and-coming in your career, yes, maybe you have to dodge certain guys. ‘Hey, my wrestling isn’t good yet, let me get it on-point and then I’ll come back there,’ or, ‘I’m not going to fight that guy right now,’ because whatever, when you’re up-and-coming. But once you’re already at the top of your game, you’re in there, man. That’s it.” Jorge Masvidal

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“My coaches know when it’s a big fight, I’m at the gym because if they give me some pretender, another actor, I might not take it.” Jorge Masvidal

“For some reason, that’s the title they’re giving me: ”The Ultimate Fighter’ Destroyer.’” Jorge Masvidal

“I’ve got more mat hours than most of the guys who are grapplers got on the mat.” Jorge Masvidal

Jorge Masvidal quote on school
Jorge Masvidal quote on school

“I want to get paid for my services.” Jorge Masvidal

“The things that I rely on, USADA doesn’t have a problem with them. I’m gonna continue to be the same athlete that I’ve always been.” Jorge Masvidal

“A guy like Anderson Silva is one the greatest champions we’ve had.” Jorge Masvidal

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“I get along just fine with Woodley. He’s actually showed me a lot things in the past, and I’ve worked with him in the past training to help him get ready to fight. There’s no hard feelings if me and hit had to scrap.” Jorge Masvidal

“Over everything, over friendships or anything, is my kids – and obviously fighting for that belt is my kids’ future. It doesn’t sound too nice, but if my mom had the belt, she better give it up because my kids gotta eat. If I’m willing to fight my mom, imagine a good friend.” Jorge Masvidal

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“Back in the day, you used to have to fight three or four fights in one night with no dodging nobody, and that’s what the sport got built on.” Jorge Masvidal    

“I never think past any man, because every guy has two hands and every dude wants to hurt you.” Jorge Masvidal

“I’m not involved in too many wars, where I’m just constantly getting hit, hit, hit.” Jorge Masvidal

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“It’s a blessing and a curse. I feel like I’ve gotta fight every dude that stepped foot on ‘The Ultimate Fighter.’” Jorge Masvidal

“Man, I never got to fight a ranked opponent at 155, and that wasn’t because I wasn’t winning.” Jorge Masvidal

“You guys might not know who Yves Edwards is, if you don’t, shame on you, go do some research.” Jorge Masvidal

“That’s the biggest act of cowardice, faking injuries.” Jorge Masvidal

“The bigger the fight, the better.” Jorge Masvidal

“I’m not going to kill my body, my lifestyle just to go to ’55.” Jorge Masvidal

“I’ve known Woodley for nine-plus years, ten-plus years. We’ve worked out together plenty. He’s one of the guys who used to slam me all around the place. I was at 155, he was at 170 pounds and he was just the wrestler that is a superpower. So that was one of the dudes that got my wrestling a little better from going with guys like that.” Jorge Masvidal

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“My body of work speaks for itself.” Jorge Masvidal    

Sanjib Sah
Sanjib Sah
Sanjib Sah is an engineer and content writer passionate about sports and athletics. With a background in engineering and a love for all things active, Sanjib brings a unique perspective to the world of sports writing. Whether he is covering the latest trends in sports technology or sharing tips on improving your game, Sanjib's words are always rooted in a deep appreciation for players' hard work and dedication everywhere. In his free time, you can find him hitting the courts or hitting the trails, always looking for new ways to challenge himself and improve his skills.

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