My sister is strong.

I was K-1 world champion.

I've fought the best in the world.

Cheating is nothing to be proud of.

My memory is not that good anymore.

My whole career's been an underdog's.

I won the world title in K-1 as a nobody.

My old man was ruthless. He terrorised us.

I'm not going to underestimate any fighter.

Knowing and assuming are two different things.

I'm always down for a battle. I was born down.

Your mind is the most powerful weapon you have.

I'm not a liar. I'm a pretty straight up person.

Every loss I take, I've accepted, and I move on.

I'd be champ already if it wasn't for the cheaters.

In the end, I think everyone should be treated fairly.

You can hear me starting to stutter and slur my words.

If you want to be the champ, you've got to beat the champ.

Part of my gift as a fighter is being a human punching bag.

If I get the boot out of the UFC, I'll still continue to fight.

It's a dream of mine to be a mixed martial arts world champion.

Home was never a safe place for me. I felt safer on the streets.

Knocking someone out cold means you just caught them, that's all.

There should be no tolerance for cheaters, especially in fighting.

Everyone wants to be UFC champion, and that's my goal and my dream.

At the end of the day, I'm one of the greatest fighters on the planet.

At the end of the day, none of us are really promised tomorrow anyway.

I've had a pretty chequered past, you know, as a kid, as a troubled kid.

Everyone's a world class ground fighter until they get a punch to the face.

I've been given a platform with the UFC, so I might as well share my story.

I don't want to be remembered as just some tough guy who could take punches.

Normally, a loss, it's hard to swallow, but you get over it sooner or later.

I'm knocking fools out. I'm beating guys because that's what I was born to do.

I've been fighting since I was a child, fighting to get out of my circumstances.

I don't ask to fight anybody. All I ask is to fight the best fighters in the world.

I don't turn down fights unless I'm injured. Never have. So it's a part of my makeup.

It's not that I don't enjoy fighting. I don't enjoy the circumstances around fighting.

I'm a professional; I've got to be on weight all the time. There's not excuses for that.

You don't learn anything from quick knockouts. I learn more about myself from hard fights.

For me, with fighting, I'm not going to have any regrets. I'm throwing down to the very end.

I've still got my senses about me, and I know what's right and wrong, which is the main thing.

It's the fight game, and everyone loses. You win some, you lose some. You just try to get back up on the horse.

I'm always going to be a New Zealand fighter. I'm a Kiwi, of course, and I've still got my New Zealand passport.

All I've ever said I need is an opportunity. Give me a chance, and I'll take it with both hands and run with it.

None of us is promised tomorrow... So whenever an opportunity has presented itself for me I'm willing to take it.

You back me into a corner, I'm not going to lay down and die. I've been down that road too many years in my life.

Yes, I was a bully. But the scrapping on the streets was my way of dealing with the anger I felt towards my parents.

You've got Jon Jones, for instance. That guy is the best, one of the best fighters in the world, but he's a cheater.

I was a cheap criminal; I did many, many wrongs. I admit that. Of course, if I could tell each person I'm sorry, I would.

There are no other factors that cause me stress when I get inside the Octagon. I guess that's an advantage of getting older.

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