Quoteworthy

“The American commentators were pretty much biased. If you see the fight without audio, you will probably see a different fight. Shogun was a great opponent and had a nice strategy. He deserves all my respect as a fighter, but I was superior. I had three or four chances to finish the fight, and he never put me in danger. This fight was judged by professionals, so I’m pretty much comfortable with the result.” -- Lyoto Machida to Sherdog.com on the outcome of his fight with Mauricio “Shogun” Rua

“If I got more aggressive, I would have entered into Lyoto’s game and taken unnecessary risks, just like all his previous opponents did. I used the right tactics and I will probably do the same in the rematch. He didn’t kick me one single time. I just got some knee butts. He has a broken rib, a deep cut in his mouth and could not even walk after the fight. I hit him twice as much, but the UFC judges analyzed some different aspects that I don’t really understand. I’m very upset. Actually, I cannot consider my last fight a loss.” -- Mauricio Rua to the Gazeta do Povo newspaper on the decision in his fight with Lyoto Machida

“The reason why I was ashamed of the UFC is because some people around me were saying that the UFC is becoming corrupt like boxing [and] asked me is that stuff real? Most of the people from the ‘A-Team’ movie were just watching it because I was watching it [and] they don’t know much about MMA [and] were starting to get into it but last night they didn’t have anything good to say about my sport. So I was so ashamed.” -- Quinton Jackson on his personal blog, venting on the UFC 104 main event decision

“Everybody was expecting him to destroy Shogun like he destroyed Rashad Evans, and he didn’t destroy him. It was a close fight. So people think: [Rua] did good. If he did that good, he must have won the fight.” -- Cecil Peoples to MMAWeekly.com on judging the fight in Machida’s favor

“Fighting for the UFC belt is my path and honestly Brock [Lesnar] coming down with his illness only gives me more time to be in that much better shape. It is a blessing if you want to know the truth. I would have never pulled out of the fight. I would wheel myself to the cage if it was my choice.” -- Shane Carwin on his personal blog on the postponement of the Lesnar fight

“I just fight so I can stop the voices in my head. So I can think, you know? It’s peaceful; it’s serene to me.” -- Matt Mitrione on “The Ultimate Fighter”

“I think [Fedor Emelianenko] made it a lot easier for our sales guys, and our sales are going very, very well for this fight. To be able to walk in with a presentation and show Fedor shows a credibility, and it speaks volumes to have a world-class fighter and maybe the best in the world. I think it certainly made it an easier sell than maybe we’ve had in the past.” -- CBS executive Kelly Kahl on selling the world’s top heavyweight

“He kind of pulls you down a little bit. He has a very hard time of promoting a fight. It’s not just a fight; this is the fight business. And if you can’t hype a fight, you’re going to get relished to the undercard. And that’s where we were. I would encourage Yushin Okami, who’s still a top 10 fighter, to be able to maybe hype a fight a little bit.” -- Chael Sonnen to MMA Fanhouse on his UFC 104 opponent

“I think I saw the limitation of the environment in which I find myself in [in terms of training]. In Japan, I inevitably face a shortage of training partners, and I often find myself on the offensive during training. Though I try to improve and diversify my training routine, I probably hit the ceiling at some point.” -- Yushin Okami to MMAPlanet.jp

“Hey man, I showed up to this fight broke. When we got to Los Angeles on Tuesday, I had zero dollars to my life. I’m not even joking around. I had nothing sitting in the bank, nothing under the mattress at home, not even a piggy bank, nothing at all. Two days before we got to L.A., I was literally eating white rice and ketchup. I didn’t want to say anything because I didn’t want anybody to worry or figure I was taking this fight for the money because I really wanted to fight. Financially, I had nothing. I had no choice but to win.” -- Patrick Barry to FiveKnuckles.com on his UFC 104 win

“At ultimate fighter tryouts in Los Angeles. Tons of aspiring talent. It is not what you know or who you know, it’s who knows what you know.” -- Former WEC bantamweight champion Miguel Torres on Twitter

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The Week Ahead

The build-up to what in some ways could be the most important show of the year, Strikeforce/M-1 Global “Fedor v. Rogers” on CBS, takes shape and includes the premiere of a documentary on both fight camps on Showtime.