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" I ain't Nate Diaz. Nate Diaz is not a welterweight. He did not do well at welterweight because he was undersized, and these dudes are real gorillas in this weight class. "

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" I have the highest takedown defense in the entire welterweight division, maybe the second-highest on the UFC roster. "

Tyron Woodley

Maybe

Highest

Division

" There's a lot of guys in my weight class that are talking - they're chirping. Everybody wants the title. Everybody wants to fight me; everybody thinks they can beat me. People are talking because they think I can't fight. "

" I know when you do things systematically, non-stop, and repetition, that's how you make things happen in your life. It's the same thing in faith. "

" At the end of the day, it's a big difference to get the draw than to get the win, but I'll take either over a loss any day. "

" Nick Diaz is in the top five welterweights of all time in my eyes. Georges St-Pierre is the number one welterweight in my eyes. "

" I've always felt like the underdog. "

Tyron Woodley

Always

Felt

" Guys in our sport bump their gums quite a bit, and they get you to think they're these huge tough guys... they're these gangsters, that they'll fight anybody, anytime. And then when you get in front of a person like me... the crickets start to come out. They don't really wanna fight. "

" What's on my playlist when I'm fighting is not so much hip-hop. Sometimes, it's something more inspirational. I get a chance to think about what I'm fighting for, like, my family. It takes me to that state because a lot of times, it's a spiritual warfare for me. "

" My end goal is not to break the record for cashing in the most. I want to be treated fair and what I feel is fair, but that's not my sole purpose; that's not my purpose. "

" It would be silly for me to work almost two and a half years chomping out whoever they put in front of me and for me to not capture that belt. "

Tyron Woodley

Capture

Silly

" I think the elements to shock the world is either the ability to wrestle and grind somebody out or the ability to knock someone out. "

" I think Nick Diaz is a great fighter. "

" I owe my family first, but I also have others around me that I have to perform for. "

" Certain athletes show themselves as marketable, and the UFC gets behind them; they help push them. I'm a husband, a father of four, a gym owner, an actor, an analyst, a stuntman, a Christian - every avenue you can take it, I have those layers. "

" Growing up as a kid, in elementary and middle school, I was always getting in trouble. Always getting suspended. I got suspended for 90 days for fighting beginning my freshman year, so I missed Homecoming, and that's when I turned the page. I went on honor roll and had good grades after that. It was the changing point. "

" If you are the best in the world, and you believe you should be fighting for a title, I think it is important to get those things out. Because a closed mouth doesn't get fed. "

" I don't believe in ring rust. I used to believe in ring rust, but I talked to my buddy Dominic Cruz, who's a bantamweight, and he basically said it's a mindset. What you do in between in your time off determines how you're going to look when you come in there. "

" I think the fans are human, and they have their own mind. If someone doesn't like a person because of their skin color, it doesn't matter if you fight or you deliver mail; they're going to have that opinion. "

" If you bring in testosterone outside your body, it probably stops producing it because it thinks you're going to get it from the outside. "

" I'm just going to go out there, pop on my leather gloves, and constantly make connections outside the Octagon, and that will make me bigger in the Octagon. "

Tyron Woodley

Leather

Connections

" 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 want to leave a legacy behind. I want the chance to measure myself against the top guys and to have them bring out that champion within me in the Octagon. "

Tyron Woodley

Legacy

Myself

" Johnny Hendricks has better credentials, but in MMA, I might be the best wrestler for the style. "

" My nickname, T-Wood, came from football because I was so small, but I used knock people's helmets off. All I wanted to do was hit. I didn't care about interceptions or touchdowns. "

" I used to be in a street fight at least twice a week, so locking me in a cage with somebody, with a set of rules and a referee to jump in if something get ugly, and a time limit, like, it don't scare me. "

" Amanda Nunes - I've been telling people that forever - she could compete with a lot of the male bantamweights in American Top Team. "

" I guess you could say I fell into it. The main goal was to be successful and to make my family proud. Back then, MMA was just getting started, and there didn't seem to be a ton of rules. It seemed pretty brutal, and I was still pretty focused on wrestling. But I decided to give it a shot. "

" No one should ever bring my muscular build up and think it is going to have something to do with my output in the fight. "

" Nobody criticizes The Rock. Nobody criticizes Randy Couture when he goes over and did 'Expendables 3' or anybody who's a crossover. "

" My strength is my unpredictablity. I can wrestle, I can strike, I can move fast, and I do a good job of covering up. And because of my experience, I'm able to put myself in good positions in the ring. The guys I fight, they have to be ready for anything. "