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" 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. "

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" The more dangerous the opponent, the better fight I've fought. It always made me move in ways I'd never moved before. "

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" If your worst fear can come true, and everything can still be OK, then there's really not much to fear at all. "

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" The truth is, a large majority of the market, I'd guess 80 percent, doesn't know anything more than what they are sold. "

" 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 rarely think that when a guy loses a fight, it's a weight issue. You can either fight, or you can't. "

" Where in normal neighborhoods, they would play stick ball and hockey and baseball, we used to slap box and bring boxing gloves down the street and box each other. "

" 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 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. "

" I never take a round off or a run off or a push-up off; that's just not in 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. "

" I'm my own biggest critic, so no matter what was being said in the media or being said by fans, I feel the worst when I disappoint myself. "

" People say I'm good at standup. I don't even think I'm that great at standup. I just hit hard. I don't think I'm super technical or anything like that. I got a couple knockouts. I think I just hit hard more than anything. "

" The fights for me are always about what you cannot see, the intangibles. It's about what's inside - what really is inside. "

" 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. "

" There's a lot of guys in the UFC who are good at one thing, and they get matched up stylistically well. "

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

Eddie Alvarez

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

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" I'm a little unconventional; I do things a little differently. "

" I don't have a nickname. But, hey, they can call me what they want - The Silent Assassin, The Underground King. In Japan, they call me American Knuckle Star. Call me what you want. "

Eddie Alvarez

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" Typically, I would say that I'm not defined by one loss and I'm not defined by one win. But I'd be lying if I told you I didn't harp on the loss at Madison Square Garden. "

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

" 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. "

" We got four-ounce gloves here. It's not hard to knock someone out. "

" Having your worst nightmares kind of come true is truly liberating. "

" Where most kids play stickball and hockey, I'd walk down the streets with two sets of boxing gloves and knock on my friend's door and see if he wanted to box. There were boxing gyms on every corner. "

" I think when it comes to re-signing with an organisation, there's no real compromise if you're trying to move on. "

" I don't like going to 155; I do it because everyone else does. "

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" From wrestling, I learned that I was capable of much more than I thought I was. "

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

" The fans, man, the fans have a little different way of thinking. They really applaud the spirit of fighters, and that put a huge influence on the type of energy I fought with, rather than if I won or lost. America's a real win-or-lose culture, where with the Japanese, fighting with spirit is enough. "