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I'm the guy that everybody wants to hate.
I want to train with whoever is the best.
I am a student of whoever I can learn from.
Whoever I have to face has to feel the wrath.
The UFC is not a place for the feint of heart.
I've trained with real, world-class wrestlers.
Ring rust is real. I've experienced it myself.
I try to stay away from high sodium and high sugar.
Eric Knuutila had a big impact on my wrestling career.
To live is to fight. We just fight in different arenas.
I enjoy the whole aspect of training with different people.
I'm never gonna please the haters, and I'm not gonna try to.
Life is a celebration… I try to enjoy it as much as possible.
Yeah, I like going away for camp. It brings out the savagery.
MMA was love at fight sight. I felt like I was born to do it.
The only way I'm going out is unconscious. I'm not a quitter.
Wrestling is one of the earliest and oldest martial arts there is.
Being relaxed allowed me to fight the way I'm capable of fighting.
I got Rampage's style down so good I am even wearing my dog's chain!
I love Chuck Liddell. Chuck Liddell is a good friend of mine, actually.
When you violate a pact, there's no way I can ever work with you again.
When people are overlooking somebody like Phil Davis, it's a dangerous thing.
You want your workout to sneak up on you. That's when you get the best results.
As an athlete you have to be coachable. And being coachable is a humbling thing.
Coming into community college, I wasn't sure of where I wanted to go in my future.
Sometimes when you open your mouth you show what you're afraid of more than anything.
One day these will just be memories that I haveso I try to enjoy it as much as possible
If you're not chasing gold, you're not really in a place where you should be competing.
I'm always interested to watch Chris Leben fight. He just fights from a different place.
I feel like I can beat Jon Jones. I see some things in his game that I can capitalize on.
I don't fight to prove that I'm tough, I know I'm tough. I fight because it's inside of me.
My main job is to go and have fun. When I do that, everything just seems to fall into place.
You can have the best college wrestling in the world, but you can have terrible MMA wrestling.
The same people that boo you are the same people who will ask you for a picture an an autograph.
Rampage's footwork is atrocious. His boxing is slipping. He doesn't take the fight game seriously.
I'm one of those athletes, I compete better for coaches that I have a lot of love and respect for.
Money comes and goes. I may make a million dollars, then get a divorce and damn near lose all of it.
I will always find something to challenge myself. I will go up to heavyweight or down to middleweight.
Being tough is probably the biggest thing that NFL players are known for, having that kind of toughness.
My momma told me a long time ago, 'not everybody has to like you.' And it's very true. I'm ok with that.
You know, MMA doesn't need New York, New York needs MMA. And I say that with all due respect to New York.
And at the end of the day as an athlete you have to be coachable. And being coachable is a humbling thing.
My wife is married to a part-time husband. That's hard to do. The kids get the short end of the stick, too.
Chicago is like a New York City. It's one of the those older cities. It really means something to fight there.
To me, to live is to fight. It's about persevering. It's about testing yourself. It's about not becoming complacent.
If I go as hard as I can in practice, make sure it's a lot harder than than a fight, then the fight's going to be easy.
I give a lot of credit to my training partners and to my coaches. Both Greg Jackson and Michael Winklejohn are amazing.
How many other people get a chance to be remembered forever? And that's what I really want. I want to be remembered forever.
It's good to be able to feel appreciated and to be able to know that your efforts and the impact in the sport meant something.
If you fight a hungry fighter and you look into their eyes and you're not as hungry as they are, that's when you get eaten up.