I respect Georges St. Pierre as a businessman and an athlete. I don't have anything against him personally. But he's not the kind of fighter I like watching.
Currently, I'm working with a company called DRL Promotions with my partners Dan Wise and Luis De Cubas. We're currently representing over 30 fighters.
My heroes are people like Picasso and Miro and people who at last really reach something in their old age, which they absolutely couldn't ever have done in their youth.
I was never able to write seriously about heroes because I was very aware that I was not one and that in my background there was not this heroic thing.
Am I no a bonny fighter?
I've always been intrigued by fighter pilots and strategy because it occurs in like, milliseconds, you know.
I felt like a fighter who was training for a title bout that had not been booked yet.
I had never thought about being a professional fighter but meeting Pat [ Militich ] and the guys just pushed me in that direction.
The script was given to me by one of my agents and they didn't tell me anything about it. My first reaction was, "The West Wing? Is it about a squadron of fighter jets?" Then I turned the page and saw, 'by Aaron Sorkin' and I knew it was going to be something good.
What's the point being the best fighter on the planet if no likes you?
No other agency is scrutinized like the police. Everything we do is in a goldfish bowl. We are not the most popular people in society. We do things like use deadly force; we're the bearers of bad news. We're not firefighters, who are viewed as heroic, helping people, with people loving them back. The police have a much more complex and demanding job.
Michael Mann's always been one of my heroes.
I believe that interest in heroes is universal and eternal.
I believe that he's a boring fighter.
If he wants to box we'll box. If he wants to brawl we'll brawl.
When you do your best, there is no impossibility.
When it kind of went to 'Street Fighter', where you had to push 13 buttons with all 13 of your fingers and ripped the spine out of somebody, you know, violent games lost the women. Complexity lost the casual gamer.
I had no plans to be ever a lawyer, a crime fighter [in school].
I called my training camp Fighter's Heaven
I wanted to change my name to Romeo Florentino. Romeo Florentino - that's a good fighter's name.
I'm too shy, really to be able to hang out with my heroes for too long.
I am a fighter. I'm not just there to go along and get along.
Tom DeLay fears independent thinkers and fighters. I am both.
Women have to make a living. We don't live in a wealthy world where we even have a choice. We're losing our choice of whether or not we need to work. If we want to work, we obviously should work and have that choice, but a lot of women can't even get to the word "want." They need to work. And it's great to see women who needed to work and found a way to become a firefighter or a steel worker. That, to me, is very exciting.
As the member of a firefighter family myself, supporting the widowed families of rescue workers is an important, personal cause of mine.
