“The secret is to listen, open your mind, listen to the pros. With the ...” — Glover Teixeira Quote

“The secret is to listen, open your mind, listen to the pros. With the help of the UFC's Performance Institute, too. Listening to my coaches and listening to my body, too. Having discipline. It's not just listening, too, because sometimes people have the knowledge but don't know how to use it. You need to be able to put that to practice.”

“There are always holes in anyone's game.”

“When I come to the United States, I came here illegally. I didn't know I was going to be a fighter. I just thought I was going to work landscaping for, I don't know, three, four years, then go back to Brazil and live my life.”

“I've been following some of the coaches, trying to get a little bit more experience, because coaching is very different from being a player.”

“You learn something from everyone, even the bad coaches because they tell you something and you think, 'I'll never do that in the future.'”

“I think everyone can have their own opinion. I think that all that matters is how I feel and my opinion, my coaches, and the people around me, like my family.”