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" After having my first surgery in 2003, having an ACL replacement, I never thought I'd be able to compete again. "

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" I'm really articulate when I do my thing - when I speak on the mic, when I do interviews. I'm a colorful personality. "

" I'm not a young kid struggling to get to the top. I've been to the top. I gotta look out for my best interests as a businessman in this fight game. At the end of the day, it is a business. I've got children to take care of; I've got bills to pay. "

" I did my job to make my name a household name. "

" Jon Jones is a great champion, but me in my prime, I was devastating. I was vicious. Nobody could stop me. Of course I could beat him in my prime. "

" I want to be remembered as a fighter with integrity. A fighter who did it this way, who has respect because he wanted to push the envelope for the fighters. "

" I'm a kid who has a lot of respect. I believe in respect. "

" Wrestling encompasses hard work, dedication, sacrifice, and determination - there's just nothing like it in any sport. "

" I made the wrong decision myself in my career. I tried to battle against the system. I should have never done that, but I didn't have anybody else who showed me how to do it before. I did everything on instinct. "

" I love to compete. "

" I'm a very emotional person. That's every one of my fights; it's all emotions. "

" I cheated on my first wife, Kristin. I thought I was untouchable. How could I be that inconsiderate to someone? "

" Chuck Liddell's a puppet. "

" Wrestling has always been a dominating force in UFC. "

" I've had two neck surgeries, a back surgery, three knee surgeries, eye surgery, but I keep bouncing back. I won't go away - kind of like a virus. I don't go away. I keep coming back stronger and stronger. I'm contagious. "

" We're fighters. We go out there, and we'll open a window of opportunity, and they're only open for so long, and we have to take advantage of that time right then. When I did it, I was 30-31 years old. Maybe it was a little too late that I should have did it, but I did it right. I was okay with the money that I got, the money that I made. "

" They eat clean, they don't drink sodas, they don't have fast food. My kids eat like pro athletes. "

" Negativity just sucks the life out of somebody. "

" My kids come first on all measures. "

" The whole bad-boy image was for the cage, and that's it. It wasn't an act because it came from a passion for fighting. "

" I have all the money I want. I don't need any more money. "

" Scott Coker, I've known him such a long time, he's always been a straight shooter. He's always been very, very respectful towards me. He understands the business. He understands marketing and how to push the fighters to make them superstars in a household environment. "

" Fighting is my livelihood, and jeopardizing my body without a full understanding of conditions doesn't make any sense. No professional fighter will go into a risky match without a contract. "

" From a kid who didn't come from much success growing up but watched Muhammad Ali and Hulk Hogan, to where I am today... I tell kids, 'You can achieve anything you want as long as you stick with it.' "

" My true inspiration is to give everything to my kids that I never had. I had a really rough upbringing, and I want to break that chain. I've broken the chain, and I want to give my kids happiness every single day. When they wake up and hop on me and say; 'Dad I love you,' that is what means the most to me. "

" Trust has always been a hard issue in my life, and when I was with the UFC, it was hard for me to trust people because it was like I was seeing lies, up to lies, up to lies. "

" My biggest enemy has been my body. "

" Back when the UFC first started, I wanted to see what MMA was all about; at the time, I was training with Tank Abbott, and so I went to see him fight. While at the fight, I saw this guy fighting that I just crushed in high school wrestling, and I thought, 'Hey, I'm a street fighter, and I have a wrestling background,' so I gave it a shot. "

" I was always a huge WWF wrestling fan, and Hulk Hogan was one of my biggest heroes. "

" I've struggled to get respect and dignity for my profession, and I do it in the way I lead my life as a fighter and as a human being. "