The Weekly Wrap: May 15 - May 21

Quoteworthy

"It's still hard dealing with the UFC now. If I had my way, I still would be retired and doing my thing. I want to promote my own show. I want to be like De La Hoya. I don't need the UFC banner. I don't need the way they don't want you to make money. They stop your after parties or your sponsors. . . . They just sold, what, 10 percent of the company, for $100 million? . . . If I had a big company and I sold (10 percent) I would give some (to) the fighters . . . I would hook them up. I would hook them up big time . . . The UFC ain't did it with just their name. Like I said before: You put two UFC symbols in the cage, see how many pay-per-views they get. Let the two UFC symbols fight each other. It's not all about your name, the UFC. It's about the characters that's in it. It's about the people that's inside the Octagon. There's a whole package deal; they don't realize. They can keep making new fighters and stuff like that, but some people can't be emulated." -- Quinton Jackson to FightersOnlyMag.com.

"If I'd known when I first started fighting, if I’d known that a bunch of dudes (would) always want to buy me drinks and take pictures of me and hug me and hold me, I would have never started fighting." -- Quinton Jackson on “UFC Primetime.”

“Before I met Quinton in Gladiator Challenge, he was my favorite fighter . . . he was my dude. You know he really was one of the dudes. I was, like, ‘Man I want to start getting into fighting,’ because at the time I was wrestling in college. But when he got his ass whipped by Wanderlei, that kind of crushed me. But still . . . he was still my dude.” -- Rashad Evans on UFC 114 conference call.

"Here we have one of the most overhyped fighters going against one of the most underrated in the heavyweight division. I am highly hyped. Am I overrated? I don’t think so. But I’ve been overhyped by that seven-second knockout." -- Todd Duffee to UFC.com on his UFC 114 fight against Mike Russow.

"Don King has no case . . . Don King is an F'N idiot. Basically the bottom line is Don King is mad because he hasn't had a haircut in like 30 years because he can't find nobody to cut that jungle on top of his head. But I'll tell you what, after this fight's over, I promise I have some weedwackers in my garage back home. I'll go ahead and fade him up." -- Dorian Price, head of talent relations for Shine Fights, to “Inside MMA” before King's legal injunction killed the promotion's pay-per-view.

“At least in basketball or baseball or football if you don’t like [the politics], you go to another team. If you have a players union and in this sport if you don’t like what’s going on, what’s the other team? You know, essentially you’re relegated to what is considered by the fans as the minor leagues just because you didn’t get along with the management at the time of the one team.” -- Matt Lindland to the Sherdog Radio Network’s “Savage Dog Show” on a fighters’ union.

"Judge Dave May scores the bout 49-46 Sanchez . . . I'm sorry, they're both Sanchez. Dave May scores the bout 49-46 Donald Sanchez." -- King of the Cage announcer Big Papa Schnake during HDNet broadcast announcing scores of fight between Donald Sanchez and Angelo Sanchez.

“(Trainer) Mark DellaGrotte was screaming at me in this fight, ’Are your kids going to continue to go to private school and eat filet mignon or are your kids going to go to public school and eat beans and rice?’ That just made me snap to. He pushed my buttons and had me going.” -- Marcus Davis to The Boston Herald on his UFC 113 fight.

“I’ve been asked if it’s been difficult finding workout partners like my opponent who is 280 pounds with 4-percent body fat and gases-out after 45-seconds. Yeah, my workout partners don’t usually gas-out after 45-seconds.” -- Tim Sylvia on opponent Mariusz Pudzianowski.