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" I want the best guys the promotion has to offer, put them in front of me, and I'll beat them. "

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" In this sport, the good thing about the UFC and MMA in general is a lot of it's based on perception. "

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

" I can walk into a restaurant and knock five guys out, become 5-0 real quick. It's about the quality of opponent. You have to beat the right guys to call yourself the No. 1 contender. "

" You win a world title, you beat the best guys in the world, and a lot of these fans are kind of misconstrued about who are the best fighters in the world. "

" I never prepare according to how I feel for a fight. I always prepare to be a better me. "

" When I say 'fighter,' I am thinking about how you deal with adversity, how you deal with being in bad situations. "

" I think bullying in general is for cowards. "

" 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. "

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

" Me? I'm no sob story. I get paid well, and I live comfortably. "

" I really didn't want to enter the UFC in a fight that nobody really cared about or where people thought I was just going to whoop some guy. "

" 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. "

" The most comical thing for me, even when I watch movies, is the guy who's so crazy confident about himself, with the mink jacket - to me, that is so funny. I wish I could be like that. As a fighter, I wish I could do that, so I could make people laugh. But I can't; it's not my style. "

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

" I'm a whole lot more than just Spanish or Irish or whatever, but definitely, it's given me help. It's given me a push, and I'm very proud of my Spanish heritage. "

" There's not a single strike that good preparation can't negate. "

" I've done it a couple times where I've had fight of the year. It's not what you aspire to. "

" I'm proud of both sides, and they are both really well known to be fighting heritages, so I tell everyone all the time - they say, 'What are you'? - I say I'm Irish. I'm Puerto Rican. I guess I was born to fight. "

" 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. "

" When I fought Nick Thompson, I wasn't experienced enough. That was the first person that put me in a real fight. Before Nick, nobody had put me in a fight where I had to struggle. "

" I think it's important to say that I am genuinely thankful for the time at Bellator. "

" Going in there just to win and put on a boring fight, I don't want to be related to anything like that. "

" It's hard when you win the title to not think, 'I'm here. Now what do I do?' "

" 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. "

" I would love, love, love to watch Conor McGregor fight Floyd Mayweather. "

" When I joined UFC, I said I want to be involved in fights where millions of fans are watching, biting their fingernails, thinking, 'What the heck is going to go on here?' "

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

" 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 won my first 10 fights by knockout. The money was getting larger at the same time. "