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" I just figured out that if I gave my all into this game - if I put everything into the fight business - then I would eventually run the fight business. "

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" I guess I have a little bit of an ego. I'm confidently cocky, you might say. "

" I want to be an expert in different fighting styles, new training methods, new ways of thinking. "

" Any top-level athlete, it's always the same. There's always that hint of arrogance there... It's hard to be humble when you're the best. "

" Competition gives me energy. It keeps me focused. "

" I'm not going to get somewhere and say, 'OK, I'm done.' Success is never final; I'll just keep on going. The same way as failure never being fatal. Just keep going. I'm going to the stars and then past them. "

" When I prepare, I am not messing around. I find the right places, the right people, and the right environment. Iceland is one of those places. "

" I carry the flag of Ireland all the time. I want to represent my country. "

" Trash talk? Smack talk? This is an American term that makes me laugh. I simply speak the truth. I'm an Irish man. "

" My unpredictability is what separates me. If you move in so many ways, your opponent is not focused on what he's doing. He's focusing in on what you're doing, and it freezes him. When they freeze and you hit, they shatter like glass. "

" If you deserve it, go get it. "

" I'd love to go into WWE and have a real knock and see what's what. "

" I see fighters make funny videos about me and stick them on Facebook and get 20 likes. When I make a video, I sell it to Fox and make seven figures. That's the difference. "

" I believe in believing. My coach John Kavanagh is a big atheist, and he is always trying to persuade people to his way of thinking, and I think, 'What a waste of energy.' If people want to believe in this god or that god, that's fine by me; believe away. But I think we can be our own gods. I believe in myself. "

" Some people take defeat and losses a certain way. You see how some fighters take losses. "

" Even when I was a kid, everything I had was the best. "

" The only time my records are going to be broken is by my own spawn. I'm going be training that child out the womb. "

" My preparation is about precision. It is a science. "

" It could be if I fight in front of one person or one million people. It's still the same emotions. "

" Muhammad Ali is a legend, a hero of mine. "

" I don't feel bitterness, I don't feel anger towards anybody. Fighting is never emotional to me. "

" People say that I'm a boxer. I actually started with kick boxing, and then I moved onto boxing, and then I moved onto grappling. "

" I knew I'd be in the UFC since I started my career. "

" You might be tough, but you can only be so tough for so long, you know what I mean? The brain can only take so much damage. The body can only take so much damage. "

" I'm in the game of spinning plates. I'm spinning a boxing plate. I'm spinning a Tae Kwon Do plate. I'm spinning a Jujitsu plate. I'm spinning a freestyle wrestling plate. I'm spinning a karate plate. If I was to put all them down and have one boxing plate spinning, it would be like a load off my shoulders. "

" Everything I've been thinking, every vision, even down to every shot I throw, it just ends up here in reality. Whether it was in a fight and how to react or whether it was in a stadium with screaming fans or whether I was in a fancy car or the best clothes ever, I always put myself somewhere. "

" I always put myself out there. I'm not afraid to commit to something. "

" There's people that tried to celebrate when I lost that got nothing to do with it. That's not the sign of a champion. "

" People are so caught in a routine, doing the same things over and over. "

" My success isn't a result of arrogance - it's a result of belief. "