<p>UFC president Dana White.(photo: Hector Castro/MMADieHards.com)</p>

“It’s not that I have this plan that I’m out in seven years. I know what the seven-year plan is with the FOX deal and I think my place in this sport and in this organization, I’ve always known what I wanted to do and I absolutely know that we’re gonna do it in the next seven years. I know where this thing’s gonna go and where it’s gonna be and I think that in seven years the sport, the athletes that are competing in this sport, building all the weight classes, doing all the things that need to be done, we’re gonna get this stuff done in the next seven years. The one goal that we did set out to do was to get this thing in every country. We’re gonna be there in seven years. I’m not saying I’m retiring the day this FOX deal is up, or anything like that, but it is what’s kinda on my mind.”
- Dana White hinted in an interview with mmafighting.com that he may step away from the sport in seven years.

“I think [King Mo opened] a lot of doors for a lot of different fighters, and it actually opens up a lot of fighter’s eyes that there’s other ways to make a living, that you can actually do both sports. It’s like it’s okay to be a Deion Sanders playing football and baseball, or like a Bo Jackson playing football and baseball. It’s good that athletes can do that. After I beat Pee Wee, I might just have to call out Brock Lesnar. I might just have to go to WWE because I might just have to call him out, go to WWE, and whoop his ass.”
- Roy Nelson talked to MMA Weekly about financial possibilities outside the cage and potentially pursuing a match against Brock Lesnar.

“Honestly, I don’t think he should have. He could make the case for it. He gave me a rematch. He had to give Gray (Maynard) the rematch, because they had a draw. I’d like to see Benson Henderson fight Nate Diaz. Fight someone else.”
- B.J. Penn was a guest on MMA Uncensored and he gave his opinion on Frankie Egdar’s consecutive rematches.

“I train with him every day, we spar three times a week, so I know what he has and I know how much better he’s gotten just over a couple of months. He’s still new to this sport and he’s always getting better. We won’t take [a fight against each other]. There’s no point. We’re training partners, he’s my coach. How’s that gonna be if I fight my coach? If it’s for the title, we’ll talk about it when that time comes, but we’re just fighting other guys right now. We’re not gonna fight each other.”
­- Cain Velasquez explained to mmafighting.com that he will not fight Daniel Cormier, well maybe for a title.

“I think if there is a plus one and Zuffa’s going to send someone over it is going to have to be someone that is very good you know? Maybe Carwin, as he’s coming back. He’s a guy with a lot of name value and I don’t necessarily know if that’s a step up (from Josh Barnett) but that is somebody with name value. Or, if one of the guys loses from the card this weekend. But then it really limits because if Frank Mir loses I’m pretty sure he is not going to want to come to Strikeforce to fight me where if he loses he has everything to lose. When Cain beats Bigfoot Silva, what are they going to do, send him (Silva) back to Strikeforce to fight me again? Nothing really adds up right now, I don’t know, I don’t know how to guess what they are going to do. There just is not that many step ups out there better than Josh Barnett. Especially that Josh Barnett. That Josh Barnett was 248 pounds, was in shape, was going hard, we had every intention on getting it down Saturday night, but that dude Saturday night came to fight. There are not too many guys that are a step up from that Josh Barnett that showed up on Saturday.”
- Cormier explained on The MMA Hour that he wants a high profile fight after defeating Josh Barnett in the Strikeforce Heavyweight Grand Prix.

“For my own promotion to kind of diss me like that, it’s like, wow. It just puts the icing on the cake. I wasn’t very happy about it. I kind of knew that they were going to do or say something, whatever they had to do to promote the fight. But to throw me under the bus like that, the way most people have said, it just wasn’t very nice, and it wasn’t very professional in my eyes. I won. I beat them both. And to not get any sort of recognition, to be pretty much spit on, it was like, wow. I could not believe that. They just keep slapping me in the face, and I’m like, ‘How many more times are you guys going to do this to me?’ At this point I’m just like, I’m going to fight whoever they’re going to have me fight, and hopefully, we’ll see if they treat me any better. But I’ve got a sour taste in my mouth from it and I don’t like it at all.”
­- Zoila Gurgel voiced her displeasure with Bellator on The MMA Hour, after the promotion billed their recent bout between Megumi Fujii and Jessica Aguilar as the No. 1 and No. 2 115-pound female combatants in the sport.

“I know his weakness. You can’t step back, he’s a coward, you know? Really go for it. I’m not telling any lies. Everyone knows.”
- Anderson Silva was a guest coach on TUF Brazil and he told Wanderlei Silva what he thinks of Vitor Belfort.

“We just finished the hearing. I greatly respect the commission, I respect their decision. They come across as gentlemen and gentlewomen, very respectful, very understanding of the situation. Trying to understand the situation. Basically, we’re going to be out for nine months, but I consider myself a clever guy. I’m going to get stronger from this, I’m going to keep on training, and I’ll be back in nine months. I’m still going to get that belt.”
- Alistair Overeem stated on The Reem that his nine month suspension will not halt his conquest for the belt.

“It depends on Jon, basically, what Jon wants to do. Number one, incidents like this; it basically turns into support system. A guy like me, when I was living my life making millions of dollars, I didn’t have a support system. I had a bad support system so I received bad support. So, in an incident like this, we don’t know. No one really knows Jon Jones, we just know he’s a splendid fighter. We’ve never seen a UFC fighter like that. Wow, i just wish the best happens out of this situation. Just like so many people love him, there’s very few people out there in a position to put him in a bad place. We’re gonna find out from this situation if Jon Jones is gonna make us continue to love him for his great fighting and the way he carries himself, as a great individual and humanitarian, or is he gonna let the bright lights and dark shadows invade his life and be one of those rising meteors, he just flies through the air and lights the world up and then he dies down in the moment. I hope not, because we all respect Jon and Jon appears to be a very nice guy and respectable guy. I just hope the best for him because I’ve been through those situations before. I’m pretty dark in my life. I come from a dark place. Wow, I just hope the best for Mr. Jon. Take care champ.”
- Mike Tyson shed light on Jon Jones’ current situation via Heyman Hustle.

“I’m not involved in all the legal stuff that’s going on with Jones but yeah, he flew out a few nights ago and sat down with me and Lorenzo and talked. I like Jon Jones. He’s a good guy, he’s a young kid. He made a mistake that night and we’ll see what happens. … I think we’ve supported Jon. He’s a young kid and he’s going to need a lot of guidance. The kid is incredibly talented, he’s starting to make tons of money and he’s getting really famous. Those are all the recipes for disaster.”
- Following the UFC 146 post-fight press conference, White talked about Jones’ recent arrest for DUI.

“I once had a lady who had chest pain so we put on a monitor and found she was possibly having a heart attack.  And then, right when the other two guys leave, she goes down like boom right there on the floor when I’m all by myself.

“I jumped in for CPR and put the paddles on her and I brought her back.  It was the most intense three minutes of my life. I don’t think anything in the MMA world can compare to that. I was like, ‘holy crap.’”
- Stipe Miocic talked to MMA DieHards about one of his incredible experiences as a firefighter.

“I’m really confident in my stand-up right now. I think I’ve got a lot better in the last year and, with my height and reach, feel as though I can live with most of the top strikers in MMA. I really want to show that as well. However, it doesn’t take a genius to work out what I plan to do to Lavar on Saturday night. If you look at our strengths, I have far more upside to my game if I take him to the ground and exploit his major weakness. If I take him down in this fight, the fight is done, and he knows that. There’s nothing he can do to argue or stop it. Lavar isn’t stupid – he knows he doesn’t stand a chance against me on the ground. Ultimately, you’ve got to fight smart in this sport. I’ve very confident that this fight will end via submission or knockout. And I can do either.”
- Stefan Struve blogged on mmafighting.com that his jiu-jitsu is stronger than Lavar Johnson’s, and then he proved it at UFC 146.

“I’m excited to be on an all-heavyweight card.  I met Lavar (Johnson) the other day, nice guy. That’s the nice thing about being on a heavyweight card; everybody is nice because they don’t cut weight. The lightweights are always grumpy.”
- Dave Herman told MMA DieHards about some of the benefits of competing on a card with colleagues that don’t cut weight.

“That’s what’s next. Not only did (Velasquez) look good (against Antonio Silva), he looked lean. Well, he was undefeated. He was an undefeated champion, he wins a fight, and he gets another shot at Junior.”
- White said on FUEL TV that Velasquez will rematch dos Santos for the UFC heavyweight belt.