The Weekly Wrap: Dec. 12 - Dec. 18

Quoteworthy

"I definitely want to fight (St. Pierre) again. … Do they want me to fight a Frankie Edgar or a Gray Maynard? Or do they want me to fight a 'super fight' against somebody in Aloha Stadium, and do they think they can sell 40,000 tickets by putting me in against a Gray Maynard, or do they want me up against a bigger name? I guess sooner or later it's gonna come down to me defending the belt, for sure. But it's about whatever the UFC's business model is for what they got coming up." -- B.J. Penn to the Hawaii Tribune-Herald.

“All I can think about is working my way back to earn another shot at Bj Penn. My dream has changed it is no longer just become ufc champion it is to fight Bj Penn again. I will put my heart and soul into this!!! Im on a mission now.” -- Diego Sanchez on Twitter.

"I've been doing this for 10 years, and I don't think I've ever seen a guy as beat up as Diego was tonight." -- UFC President Dana White following UFC 107.

“All we’ve done really by having us fight each other is weaken the two of us. We got to train together, different styles, but we both offered the best of what the other person didn’t have. When we took each apart to fight each other the last two years, we haven’t really been able to train together. I can’t say that you’re getting the best of us because we haven’t had the greatest training partners available to us.” -- Josh Thomson to FightMagazine.com on former training partner Gilbert Melendez, whom he faces Saturday.

“Actually we are still talking, and I’m thinking about that possibility. After all, only one man saw me naked in my entire life and I have to think deeply about that.” -- Cristiane "Cyborg" Santos to Sherdog.com on an offer she received to pose in Playboy.

"I'm one of the best in my division, I'm one of the best fighters to ever fight. I keep improving every time." -- Alan Belcher to MMA Fanhouse.

“Anxiety and panic attacks took my life, put me down and crushed me in the last year. I am coming back better than ever. My life has been upside down and I am trying to get everything back in order so I can get back competing in MMA, which is something I love to do." -- Karo Parisyan to HyeFighter.com.

“I beat him in our fight, but I don’t think I’ve beaten him a round since. The neatest thing in the world is when your former adversary becomes your training partner. We definitely have a bond. He speaks very little English; we communicate with a lot of hand gestures, so we’re mostly using our fighting as communication in the gym." -- Chael Sonnen to CagePotato.com on training with Yushin Okami after defeating him at UFC 104.

"If Dana’s got a problem with me, about any texts I give my friends or anything else, if he’s got a problem with me tell him, I’ll do a boxing fight with him, but I’d show up. I’d show up with bells on. I’d show up dressed looking just like a boxer. He could even wear a head gear for all I care. That’s real, let Dana know what I said. Tell Dana if he’s still got a problem with me, we can settle the problem like men and he can make as much money out of it as he wants. He can promote it, he can put it on TV and he can pay himself a big purse." -- Quinton Jackson to MMABay

"It used to be when I first was covering the NFL I'd show up and everybody wants to talk about, 'Hey, what did this guy get for his contract, what are you hearing here, what are you hearing there?' Now when I show up to camps … it's 90 percent MMA questions. Lorenzo Ferttita just made a highlight video for the Dallas Cowboys for the special teams coach to show his players the night before a game. There's a couple teams they're doing that for. They're definitely integrating. NFL guys, they're looking up to MMA guys." -- NFL and MMA broadcaster Jay Glazer on “Inside MMA” about the popularity of the sport amongst pro football players.

The Week Ahead

Ramifications of the final Strikeforce and WEC cards of the year settles in as the holidays do, as Japan gears up for its annual “Dynamite” spectacular on New Year’s Eve.