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" Every once in awhile, we all get a bad hand dealt to us. "

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" Regardless of the magnitude, the crowd, or the pay-per-view sales, the goal is to beat the guy in front of me. "

" If I can put the right guy with the right mouthpiece in front of the right opponents, we can build a champion, but he doesn't really have to beat the best guys; we just have to give him the right matchups. "

" Fighting, for me, is not a career - it's an opportunity. I'm going to take full advantage of it and do it as long as I can. As long as my body lets me and I'm healthy enough to do it naturally, I'll do it. "

" It's MMA - anything can happen. You can throw a punch from one knee, a punch from anywhere. "

" I was never the most technical; I was never the best at one aspect at this sport, but what I was always good as was negating people's strengths and putting them in terrible situations where they're uncomfortable. "

" You win a world title, you beat the best guys in the world, and a lot of these fans are kind of misconstrued about who are the best fighters in the world. "

" I'll beat a bunch of good guys, and then I'll get a ton of fans come up to me and go, 'Do you think you can beat Conor McGregor?' And I'm like, 'Oh my God. You guys are disillusioned.' They think because this man's popular he's good. "

" I think it's important to say that I am genuinely thankful for the time at Bellator. "

" I never prepare according to how I feel for a fight. I always prepare to be a better me. "

" I have a very good ground game and very good wrestling. People just underestimate it. That's it. I want to keep it like that. "

" I want to fight only dangerous guys. Whenever I've done that in my career, I've stepped up and risen to the challenge. "

" I've been fighting the best guys, so I would like a gimme fight. "

" Although I'm shorter, all of my weight I carry in my back and my butt. That's where most of my weight is. "

" I believe that in order for me to consider myself one of the top ranked lightweights in the world, I have to go out and dominate the fight. "

" I want an opportunity to fight the best in the world and make millions of dollars doing it. "

" I'm a whole lot more than just Spanish or Irish or whatever, but definitely, it's given me help. It's given me a push, and I'm very proud of my Spanish heritage. "

" I'm old school, man. I think, if you want to be the best, then beat the best guys. "

" Out of nowhere, they made an interim belt and had Lee fight Ferguson. This is very odd for me; what went on there? You know. I don't know what went on there. "

" I really didn't want to enter the UFC in a fight that nobody really cared about or where people thought I was just going to whoop some guy. "

" I don't want to go that route where I'm going into fights dehydrated. I used to fight at 170 pounds. I was 10-0 at 170 with eight knockouts. I'm not going to listen to somebody from the outside tell me what weight I should be fighting at. "

" I can walk into a restaurant and knock five guys out, become 5-0 real quick. It's about the quality of opponent. You have to beat the right guys to call yourself the No. 1 contender. "

" I want the best guys the promotion has to offer, put them in front of me, and I'll beat them. "

" I'm not here if Bill Hunter never forced my hand in wrestling. It was a pivotal point in my life. "

" I want to prove the naysayers wrong. They're everywhere. And to be honest with you, they're all I see, and they're what motivates me. "

" I want to fight Gilbert Melendez. "

" I boxed. I did track and field; I did basketball, football, any sport I was able to sign up for. "

" I think sports is a quest to find out what really is - not what perceptions are. "

" In this sport, the good thing about the UFC and MMA in general is a lot of it's based on perception. "

" The idea is to go out there and win in a dominant fashion. That changes people's minds, the way they're thinking about me, and lets people know I'm here to contend for a title. "

" I had to fight Donald Cerrone, Anthony Pettis, Gil Melendez, Rafael Dos Anjos. I had to fight these guys in order to prove myself in order to get a title shot. "