Dana White
Dana White
Dana Frederick White, Jr.is an American businessman. He is the President of the mixed martial arts organization Ultimate Fighting Championship...
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth28 July 1969
CityManchester, CT
ask fighting people understand
We're not for everyone, and we don't try to be. If you don't like fighting sports, great, this is America, that's your right. All we ask is that people understand what we are.
athletes hard people type
There were a lot of misconceptions about the sport and the athletes. This allows them to look in and see how hard they train, what type of athletes and people they are.
arts athletes build confident continues exciting great martial mixed momentum people respond stay
The momentum continues to build which is really exciting for us. We were confident people would respond to the sport of mixed martial arts once they got to know the professional athletes who participate in it. Stay tuned, it's going to be a great season.
atlantic attached bought few hosting interested people stigma talk time trying venues
When we first bought the company, there was the stigma attached to the UFC, ... At that time we were out trying to talk to venues. Venues weren't even interested in having the UFC there. MGM, Mandalay Bay, a few out in Atlantic City. We had to go in and get people interested in hosting UFC events.
athletic instead john mccain ran running senator
They were running from athletic commissions, ... Senator John McCain actually went after them. Instead of working with him, (Meyrowitz) ran from him. But if it wasn't for McCain it wouldn't be the sport that it is today.
mma guy bed
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.
healing legs anderson-silva
Visiting Anderson Silva. He's doing AMAZING! Leg is healing fast and will be walking without crutches in 30 days.
morning jobs hate
A lot of times, kids go to college and take a major because they do what they think they're supposed to do. I told them I believe 90 percent of America gets up in the morning and drives to a job they hate. That could have happened to me in the hotel industry.
ufc events remembered
UFC 151 will be remembered as the event Jon Jones and Greg Jackson murdered.
injured knows
Don't ever let anybody know you're injured.
sports father boxing
Boxing is your father's sport.
dad kids mma
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'.
mma giving trying
Whatever it is that you're passionate about... try to figure out a way to make money at it and give it a shot.
thinking mma way
I think you take whatever it is that you would do for free and you figure out the way to do it.