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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
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" Fighting, especially at this level, is about getting through adversity. You position yourself mentally to go out and take on obstacles that stand in your way. In the Octagon and in life, you face tough situations and have every chance to quit, but the more adversity you push through, the more likely you are to be successful. "
Tyron Woodley
Obstacles
Life
Yourself
" There's something about somebody who does something special in the UFC that they're allotted certain freedoms and wiggle room around the rules. I'm just not in that category. So if I want to fight Georges St-Pierre or Nick Diaz or Nate Diaz, then it's all the hooplah and all the talk about it. "
Tyron Woodley
Want
Talk
Special
" For me, I'm going to try to do the same thing to you no matter if I like you, no matter if I hate you, no matter if it pops up. You're not going to be able to say one thing, and now I really want to kick you. "
Tyron Woodley
Want
Me
Hate
" I'm a person who believes that if a team that's producing a champion and producing contenders in that same division, then the coaches should be proud of that and pat themselves on the back because they're really creating a dynasty, so that's the way I take it. "
Tyron Woodley
Proud
Champion
Back
" 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. "
Tyron Woodley
Ugly
Time
Rules
" How do I have to continue to excessively prove myself and always be the underdog? I don't get the respect I deserve, and that leads me to believe that maybe it is a colour issue. "
Tyron Woodley
Underdog
Myself
Me
" 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. "
Tyron Woodley
Life
Faith
Same
" The true game of mixed martial arts is putting your wrestling in there, putting your striking in there, but also being deceiving - hiding behind your punches if you're wrestling and hiding behind your wrestling if you're punching. It's just a matter of blending it all together. "
Tyron Woodley
Together
Arts
Game
" What is there not to market? I fight like hell. I'm built a certain way, never taken performance-enhancing drugs. "
Tyron Woodley
Fight
Way
Market
" When I was in college, I was a landscaper. Other than that, coaching has been my life and my job. A lot of people like coaching college, but I would never do it again. There are too many NCAA bylaws, rules and politics. "
Tyron Woodley
College
Politics
People
" I put myself in a position where I made wrestling an option for me. I don't have to wrestle. I don't have to take another shot for the rest of my life if I don't want to. I have good enough hands, good enough boxing, good enough timing to strike with anybody in our division. "
Tyron Woodley
My Life
Rest
Myself
" What got me into MMA first was that I was a wrestler, and I was a gangbanger getting into trouble a lot and getting into fights. I grew up in a family of 15 in a four-bedroom house. It was dysfunctional, so that alone made me want to be an MMA fighter. It's really the only sport where you gotta basically depend on yourself. "
Tyron Woodley
House
Me
You
" No matter what anybody says or thinks, nobody believes that I'm not the number one welterweight in Strikeforce. I think that's not even a question. "
Tyron Woodley
Nobody
Think
Matter
" 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. "
Tyron Woodley
Top
Number
Eyes
" To be just straight up honest, Conor McGregor is a guy that fought at 145 - ever in his life. I haven't weighed 145 since my sophomore year of high school. "
Tyron Woodley
Year
Honest
High School
" I've physically seen profiling. I've seen me walking up the street with my friends, and the police officers get out of their car and bust the hell out of my friends. And they can't do anything about it, and the cop gets back in his car and drives off. "
Tyron Woodley
Me
Police
Walking
" If a guy isn't in a position to fight for a world title, or if he's not in a place where I can intercept his road to the title, don't offer him to me. I'm not in this to just fight guys for the sake of fighting. I'm not in this to make friends with the people who work in the organization. "
Tyron Woodley
Me
Fight
Road
" We also have to think as fighters, celebrities - whatever you want to call us - that we have an obligation to point out stuff that's just completely wrong. "
Tyron Woodley
Think
Point
Want
" 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. "
Tyron Woodley
Gym
Father
You
" I fight with a game plan, but sometimes you have an audible. "
Tyron Woodley
You
Sometimes
Fight
" 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. "
Tyron Woodley
Believe
Mindset
You
" I want to fight at middleweight. "
Tyron Woodley
Want
Fight
" I think a kid from the inner city, if I had to recruit, is the ideal person for MMA. They'd be less likely to be affected by hard work. They'd be less likely to not appreciate something when someone is helping them out, because they probably don't have a ton of stuff. "
Tyron Woodley
City
Work
Appreciate
" When you're watching people in non-title fights making four times the amount of money that a champion makes, it takes away the flavor of being a champion. "
Tyron Woodley
Money
People
Watching
" Wrestling is second nature: I've been doing it for so long, so if it looks like someone's leg is available, it made sense for my first three fights that I would shoot for legs. "
Tyron Woodley
Long
Three
Someone
" 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. "
Tyron Woodley
Think
You
Mind
" 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
Me
Capture
Silly
" I'm actually one of the sharper tools in the box that haven't been in the streets like that, but I have family members, close loved ones, that that's all they know. "
Tyron Woodley
Family
Streets
Know
" It's a sport about risk and reward. It's a sport about becoming a legend. You look at guys that have stepped up on last minute, and it changed their lives. I don't think that I should be any different. "
Tyron Woodley
You
Think
Legend
" 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. "
Tyron Woodley
Talking
Class
Fight