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In my opinion, whenever you get two guys who want to fight each and two guys who want to be in a good fight, you let them fight.
Fear is the genesis of most of the good things that have occurred in my life. Fear is the beginning of every success I've lived.
Nobody really knows how I fight or what I'm capable of. Nobody has high expectations for me. I get to go out and prove I belong.
If I wanted to eat all the protein I need from food, I would have to eat something like 10 chickens per day. That is impossible.
I'm a real martial artist, my father always taught me that some way I have to train every day, no matter what happens your life.
I will tell you right now, I want to fight the No. 1 fighter in the world. I always said that I want to fight the No. 1 fighter.
All the losses that I had, I think they were important, just because it helped me grow as a fighter, helped me grow as a person.
I pretty much focus on all the main styles out there, karate, wrestling, boxing, jiujitsu, just pretty much anything within MMA.
There's always going to be some phenom fighter coming up. If they're special athletes and highly trained, they'll do big things.
A loss leads to victory, being fired leads to a dream job..I find comfort in believing that good things can grow out of tragedy.
I think it's real important to enjoy what you do, have fun with it and not to put the pressure on yourself of everyone watching.
I felt in college I wanted tattoos. I'm really glad I didn't. I was broke. I would've been bargain shopping for a tattoo artist.
The only person I'd be interested in boxing would have to be one of the best of the best. It would have to be, like, Andre Ward.
I talk to my guys and I tell them, 'You have to fight in a way that you don't give the promoter a choice but to bring you back.'
I feel like I'm one of the best strikers in MMA. I just need the time to prove it. You haven't really seen my full potential yet.
I'm not really too big of a sports fan. Everything I watch is MMA, you know, great fights. But other sports, not really too much.
I'm an emotional guy, I cry at movies, man, so beating GSP and winning the world title... yeah, I'll probably cry in the Octagon.
Brian Stann is a great guy. I voted him in for the President of the United States in 2008, and I will write him in again in 2012.
I've beaten Anderson twice, then Lyoto Machida and now Belfort. I'll be proud to have taken down three all-time legends in a row.
Money, autographs, I had no desire to even do that. I fell in love with fighting and those types of things became attached to it.
I am not afraid of saying something and going and pursuing it. That's it. I see it in my mind. I say it out loud. I go and do it.
I think it's an Irish thing. We don't really care. We say it as we mean it, and you have to deal with it. The truth is the truth.
Being able to go forward has been good, you know? I'm lucky to have that ability, to pressure guys and make them falter and wilt.
I bow to my opponent in praise and thanks. After the fight is a time for humility, acceptance and analysis, no matter the result.
I might not be as successful as you are today, but tomorrow, next month, next year, or five years from now will be another story.
Do not be mad because someone is more successful than you are. What have you done lately to (en.hance), enhance your own success?
When you fighting in New York, I feel like it would be disrespectful if I didn't walk out with some legendary East Coast hip-hop.
I just opened a free, public MMA gym in Paraiba, so why can't Curitiba or Sao Paulo have one? No money? Someone needs to do this.
I practice the martial arts. I don't practice MMA. MMA is my job, MMA is a new sport. Martial arts is the knowledge from the ages.
In order to resist injuries and stay healthy, you have to be mobile and agile. You have to be able to have your body work for you.
You have to work your way up the ladder just like everybody else. Nothing is given to you in this world, so you have to work hard.
When you talk about me as a fighter, I like being known as a Mexican fighter. I think 'Mexican' or 'Hispanic' should be mentioned.
Every time you have a huge fight in wrestling, in boxing, in MMA, both guys are sure they're going to win. They really believe it.
I eat more when I'm not training as much. But I get in the gym, and when I feel my gut, I try to eat healthy for some of my meals.
With the skills that I have and with my commitment to getting better I don't see any reason I can't win every single fight I'm in.
When you fight MMA, there are so many things involved, so many techniques, that you just can't do everything or you'll over-train.
I don't care where I fight on the card, but to get people motivated or excited, like, 'Cowboy's fighting!' that's my overall goal.
You can't just go in and say, 'I'm going to be tougher that you,' you know? Heavy bags are tough, but I've never been beat by one.
If I come back and I lose, at least I know I did everything I should have done, I have no regrets, I'll be happy. I can die happy.
The more knowledge you get, the more questions you ask. The smarter you get, the more you realize that everything can be possible.
I've come to expect more out of myself - as a citizen, as a man, as an athlete - to reach a better place, a place I've never been.
I'm not going to go fight the best guys in the world without getting championship fights or championship money; it makes no sense.
I loss that fight to Phil Davis, but I'm not convinced on that fight. Because it wasn't fair for me. I'd like to do another fight.
Most of the neighbours didn't like our parents, and they particularly gave Dad a very wide berth. We kids didn't have that luxury.
I'm terrified of having to go back to a day job. And that's why I'm training like a man possessed. Because I want to keep winning.
No matter where I've been or where I go, a piece of Missouri is always with me because this is where I'm from and where I grew up.
If I had someone buttering me up, maybe I'd have worked out. You don't even know where I came from. Nobody wants to come out here.
I was never, like, picking on people or anything like that. I was more the other way around. I was a little insecure, I was broke.
If promoters figure out a way to keep the fighters happy then those fighters will tell other fighters and that promotion will win.
If we fight for money, I'll stop hitting you when you ask me to. If we fight for honor, I'll stop hitting you when I feel like it.