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" I do genuinely dislike Tito Ortiz, and I don't have anything to prove to him. "

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" Dancing is a lot lower-impact than ultimate fighting, but it takes a lot longer, and I burn the same amount of calories. "

" I've always said that when I retire, I'll decide in the training room and not after a fight. "

" I did well in school, was the captain of the wrestling team and the football team, and always got along well with people, so I'm sure I would have gotten a job in the real world. I probably wouldn't have liked that, though. "

" Having 'The Ultimate Fighter' was the thing that did it for us, live fighting on TV. That's what we had to do, was get a live fight on TV. It couldn't have worked out better. "

" I was in 'The Postman Always Rings Twice' with Jack Nicholson. That was fun. I think I made, like, $33 or something. I got to miss a whole day of school, and when you're a little kid, that's cool. "

" I'm one of those guys: I'm out there trying to punch you out and to hurt you, but as soon as I'm done, hopefully there's nothing wrong with you; I'm hoping that you're okay. "

" My whole life, I've been training for something, whether it be baseball or football or wrestling or martial arts. "

" Jon Jones is a great fighter. "

" I was the guy that would cram for everything, so I guess I was a bit of a slacker. I was a procrastinator. I spent a lot of all-nighters getting ready for tests. "

" I like aggressive fighters who will come after me. "

" The fans have been really good to me. I thank everyone for all the support. "

" It's hard for an athlete to quit what he's done his whole life. "

" I'd like to have all of my losses back. But it's too late for that. "

" I'm competitive at everything. "

" Everyone says I drive like my grandfather, but that's not always a good thing because he didn't always watch the road because he'd talk to you and look at you. He was a deputy sheriff, a cop, for a long time. So he was always looking around, checking out other things, other than what's directly in front of him. "

" It's a very complex sport, so judging is going to be very complex, too. And not everyone is going to agree all the time on who wins a fight. "

" There's nobody in the world I wouldn't fight. "

" I like Glover Teixeira; he's a former training partner. "

" If you watch fights cage-side, sometimes different punches look better than others. It's like camera angles. Sometimes some punches look a lot better than they were, and sometimes a solid punch doesn't look good. So it just depends on your angle. "

" I think people liked the way I fight. "

" I have a great time with the kids. I'm always happy when they're around. "

" Everybody doesn't want to hurt to lower guys from getting paid, but it comes down to, it's a performance-based business. You get good, you win, then you get paid. "

" We run on the beach some days, and others, we run hills behind the gym. We also do several hours of grappling each week as mixed with some intense cardio in the ring. "

" I think the reasons I retired stay the same. I don't want to change my style. I can't take a punch like I used to for whatever reason. I've heard all sorts of theories as to why that would happen, but I can't do it. "

" That's one of the reasons I retired. To stick around, the way I was fighting, I would have to start playing it safe. I went out on my shield. That's the way I liked it. I fought that way my whole career. I don't want to bore people my last three or four fights. "

" I don't think the itch to fight has ever left me, ever. I mean, I got paid to do what I love for a living, and I got paid very well to do it. So that's going to always be there. That's always going to be like, 'Man, I wouldn't mind getting out there again.' "

" I started doing martial arts since I was 12, and then I went into wrestling in college. After I met John Hackleman, I started getting really serious about it, and after a few amateur fights, I got an invite to the UFC and have been in love with it ever since. "

" I'm a fighter, and I'll always be a fighter, and it's what I love to do. "

" With the fights I have lost, I always want another shot and think that I can beat them. "