110+ Dana White's Inspiring Quotes on Transforming UFC and Beyond

Dana White is an American businessman and the current president of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). He is the face of the UFC and has been credited with bringing the sport of mixed martial arts into the mainstream. White has also been an active philanthropist, donating to numerous charities throughout his career. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Dana White on leadership, life, success.

Top 10 Dana White Quotes

1. I'm nice to everybody, I respect other people. If you respect me, I respect you.
2. I think Cormier's one of the greatest to ever do it. Two-time, two-division world champion.
3. I hate Showtime, I can't stand those guys.
4. I like to have my Pinkberry. I have this one store in midtown Manhattan that will stay open for me late.
5. I've been in the fight business my whole life. I know fighters.
6. People try to compete with the UFC but we're the best at what we do.
7. 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.
8. I genuinely love this sport and most of the guys who compete in it.
9. If a rating is bad in another sport, do you see a writer say, 'This sport's over?' No.
10. I'm a huge Ronda Rousey fan. She's extremely talented. What I like most about her is she's mean and nasty.

Dana White Short Quotes

• The thing where I've always been lucky is, I knew exactly what I wanted to do.
• I like guys to stay at their weight classes and dominate. I don't want guys moving up and down.
• I've paid our guys more than Oscar has paid his guys on his last show.
• I'm not a political guy at all, not even a little bit.
• She looks like Wanderlei Silva in a dress and heels.
• Look, people have been filming fights since the beginning of time.
• When you have a concept and a sport like this, you have to have a vision.
• If somebody doesn't want to show up for a press conference I'll pull them from the card.
• We put on fights between the best fighters; we don't put on freak shows.
• There will never be a fighters' union. Ever.

Dana White Quotes About Life

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

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

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

I'm a loyal person, man, and people who have been good to me in my life, I don't forget and I stand by them. — Dana White

Dana White Quotes About Success

We want to build this sport all over the world and it absolutely, positively works in the U.K. — Dana White

Nothing comes easy. Success doesn't just drop on your lap. You have to go out and fight for it every day. — Dana White

If you're not that big pay-per-view star, shut up and fight. — Dana White

I'm a guy who did exactly what he wanted to do. When you do that, the money follows. — Dana White

Dana White Quotes About Love

It was never about the money for me, it was about doing something that I loved, it was more about passion. — Dana White

I never have the plan to overtake boxing. I love boxing; I came from boxing. — Dana White

I love talking directly to the fans. — Dana White

I love this sport. I love the fights and I love most of the guys in it. — Dana White

I love doing things that people say can't be done. — Dana White

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. — Dana White

Dana White Quotes About Mma

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

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

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

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

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

Whatever it is that you're passionate about... try to figure out a way to make money at it and give it a shot. — Dana White

I think you take whatever it is that you would do for free and you figure out the way to do it. — Dana White

Dana White Quotes About Ufc

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. — Dana White

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

Lorenzo Fertitta was a good friend of mine since we were kids. He and I were going to do something together in boxing anyway, so I called Lorenzo - he was down in Miami - and I said, ‘You know what, I just found out the UFC is for sale. What do you think?’ And he said, ‘That’s interesting. — Dana White

The UFC brand is going to be here for a long time. — Dana White

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

The fighters in the UFC are treated very well. — Dana White

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

No doubt about it. The reality is, there’s nothing fake, obviously, like pro wrestling, and it is the most hard-core, full-contact event in the world. — Dana White

UFC 151 will be remembered as the event Jon Jones and Greg Jackson murdered. — Dana White

Dana White Quotes About Determined

I tried to go to college, I barely got out of high school. — Dana White

Whether boxing is fixable or not remains to be seen. I'm going to give it a shot. — Dana White

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

My point is, any of you wanna win this fucking show, move on, take those fucking people out of the equation. — Dana White

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

Dana White Quotes About Innovative

There's only so many things you can do with fights, so I'm always trying to shake it up and find something different, new, exciting and fun. — Dana White

I have the vision for where the sport is gonna go and what we're gonna do and the different types of fights. — Dana White

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

Dana White Famous Quotes And Sayings

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. — Dana White

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

I did an 86 hour water fast and i feel INCREDIBLE! Obviously i'm not a doctor, but i've been told by the experts that water fasting can help to significantly reduce the risk of cancer, alzheimers and a ton of other health issues. — Dana White

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

It used to be that we weren't even allowed on TV or pay-per-view, so we always spoke to our fans through the Internet. — Dana White

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Conor McGregor has that fight anybody, anywhere attitude but doesn't just have the attitude, he lives it. — Dana White

UFC is also safer than boxing because of the tap-out rule. I'll give you an example: when Roberto Duran said, 'No mas' meaning 'no more' in Spanish because he couldn't continue and knew he was hurt, he was ridiculed the rest of his career. In UFC, a fighter can tap out if he's in a dangerous position or believes he's going to be seriously injured. — Dana White

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

At the end of the day, when you're dealing with heavyweights who can punch, anything is possible. — Dana White

I boxed in the amateurs before getting into submission fighting and got hooked. Actually, I owned three boxing gyms in Vegas. I trained and managed fighters and had a sports management company. One day I met Tito Ortiz and Chuck Liddell, who I started representing, and I got into this huge contract negotiation with Bob Meyerwitz, the former owner of Tito Ortiz’s contract. Through that, Bob and I developed a mutual respect for one another. — Dana White

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

Sushi’s from Japan, he’s from the Philippines dummy. — Dana White

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

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

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

Listen, I've been wrong before, and I'll be wrong again. — Dana White

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

Greg Jackson should never be interviewed by anyone except for a psychiatrist. — Dana White

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

Really, the way to learn jiu-jitsu is to do it. If you do jiu-jitsu you get it and you learn it. — Dana White

Whoever you are, this is America. You can believe or do whatever you want. — Dana White

Ever since I've been on Twitter, my number of followers has kept going up and up. — Dana White

We make dream fights all the time. — Dana White

Actually, the father of mixed martial arts, if you will, was Bruce Lee. If you look at the way Bruce Lee trained, the way he fought, and many of the things he wrote, he said the perfect style was no style. You take a little something from everything. You take the good things from every different discipline, use what works, and you throw the rest away. — Dana White

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

Everything that ever happened to me in my career, Trump was the first guy to pick up the phone and reach out to me. — Dana White

I've had a great relationship with Fox since Day 1. Fox was the network that I wanted to be on. — Dana White

Kimbo Slice sucks. He's terrible. — Dana White

As an American, you can do whatever you want to do, and you can choose whatever side you want to be on. — Dana White

Ronda Rousey is a huge star. — Dana White

You'll never hear me say a negative thing about Donald Trump. — Dana White

Outdoor stadiums scare me to death. — Dana White

I'm not homophobic and I'm not anti-gay. — Dana White

Since the beginning of time, people have said mean things to each other in a fight, no matter what. — Dana White

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

When you talk about somebody being your world champion, you couldn't ask for a better human being than Daniel Cormier. — Dana White

The most famous athletes throughout the history of time are fighters. — Dana White

Everyone has jitters in their first fight. — Dana White

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

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. — Dana White

I saw 'Boogie Nights' more times before the movie came out than any other movie I had ever seen. — Dana White

When there's millions of dollars at stake, everybody is going to look for an advantage. — Dana White

It isn't all about signing autographs and banging broads. — Dana White

The reality is this: Fighting isn't a team sport; it's an individual's sport. — Dana White

Listen, everybody thinks I'm a Republican, but I'm not a Republican. — Dana White

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

Let me tell you what, reality is better than any script you could ever write. — Dana White

UFC is definitely a younger guy’s sport. Our target audience is anywhere from age 17 to 35. And our fighters will be household names. Where I’d like to see it is like it is in Japan right now. We were just over there with Chuck Liddell, who was representing UFC in a UFC versus PRIDE fight. And he knocked out Alistair Overeem in the first round of the PRIDE Grand Prix Elimination tournament. That was awesome, man. Chuck couldn’t leave the place on Monday morning. He went to go shopping, to buy some things for his family, and he was swarmed for forty-five minutes. The mall security had to pull him out of there and throw him in a car. There were thirty seven thousand people at the event, and it was the first time the tournament was shown on free TV. So millions of people saw him fight that night – not only in Japan, but in the US. — Dana White

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

I live a pretty crazy lifestyle. — Dana White

Different people respond differently to head trauma than others. — Dana White

You can't force fighters to fight. — Dana White

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. — Dana White

Life Lessons by Dana White

1. Hard work and dedication can pay off, as demonstrated by Dana White's success in the business world.
2. It is important to have a clear vision and to stay focused on your goals, as Dana White has done throughout his career.
3. Taking risks and being willing to adapt to changing circumstances can help you to achieve success, as Dana White has proven.