I'm not a small guy.

All weight cuts are hard.

Winning solves everything.

I never took the easy route.

I'm familiar with adversity.

I have a pretty high fight IQ.

Destiny doesn't make mistakes.

I'm not really chasing rematches.

I've always fought the best guys.

I try to work on the small things.

I've been the underdog my whole life.

Adversity teaches a man a lot about himself.

I have mouths to feed and I want big fights!

I'm not a frontrunner. I'm a complete fighter.

I'm not a quitter, man. Just look at my history.

I think I fought my first fight in Zuffa in 2010.

Fighting has opened the path to redemption for me.

It's MMA. Anything can happen. Nothing's for sure.

Normal pain is no problem, that just comes with the job.

Any time Nate Diaz fights, I'm tuning in, I promise you.

Those deep, dog fights - I love that. That's why I fight.

I want to fight for the real belt, not the interim title.

I think a lot of fighters are cutting way too much weight.

I've never pulled out of a fight. I've never missed weight.

Everybody has their own path. Everybody peaks at different times.

I'm not fighting just to fight. I'm fighting to be the world champ.

We fall, but we get up because the ground is no place for a champion.

I come from south Louisiana where everyone has a blue-collar work ethic.

When your body quits on you, it doesn't matter how mentally tough you are.

Every day I wake up and go to sleep, I'm thinking about beating Cub Swanson

I'm not a matchmaker, I don't know the logic behind the decisions they make.

You're in a fight and have to dig down... I find peace in that and enjoy it.

My father was a fighter. My grandfather was a fighter. It's just in my blood.

That grit of fighting is addictive, I'm scared of it. It's a very weird thing.

I want a rematch with Cub Swanson, I think I deserve to be 100 percent and fight.

The side of town, the side of Louisiana that I grew up on, there's a lot of poverty.

Just because I haven't fought wrestlers doesn't mean I'm not wrestling in every camp.

Korean Zombie beat me, and I was prepared that night. He beat me, he beat me that night.

My goal is to prosper and be a world champion and make money and retire and say I did it.

Norman Parke needs to stay off of Twitter before he gets himself in a fight he can't win.

I've just been in a lot of big fights, and I've been in some good spots and some bad spots.

Every fight, every camp I learn about myself and I get better. But every fight I get better.

Focus on performance. Outcome is going to happen. No stress about that. Focus on performance.

You can go out and get anything you want if you work hard enough for it and believe in yourself.

This is a business. I'm a professional athlete. This isn't, 'poke somebody and start a street fight.'

Of course, every time I get beat out there, I want to avenge those losses. I'm sure every fighter does.

I knew I had the ability to become a world champion, I knew I did. I knew I just needed the opportunity.

The champs are the guys who can do it the best, to lock it in for 25 minutes and do what they plan to do.

If you move in and out, throw shots and use angles and the guy's feet are planted, you look a lot better.

My goal and path is always to get to the mountaintop and be a world champion, and leave a fighting legacy.

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