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" I was a huge Mike Tyson fan, would sit through the night watching boxing matches and would hit the bag at every opportunity I would get. "

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" I don't know what the fans expect out of these fighters, but I know what I expect out of myself. And that's go out there, beat people up, and just be me. "

" Holly Holm is a heck of an athlete and a heck of a fighter. "

" It's nice that fans want to see me fight. It definitely helps and gets everyone excited. It gets the UFC excited, and they are quick to put me back in there. But I really just focus on myself and getting ready to fight. "

" Even when you lose, you get better. Sometimes when you lose, you win. "

" I just take it one fight at a time. "

" I was getting a lot of good work with my wrestling up in Iowa, but I needed a more all-around game, striking, jiu-jitsu at a high level. I had a lot of good coaches out at ATT to work with. They pushed me. Everything was smarter. Everything was precise. "

" I'm tactical, and I have a lot of heart - something that you don't see when you watch a lot of fights. "

" When push comes to shove, I'm a fighter, and I'm going to force someone to fight. It takes a lot of technique, it takes a lot of skill, but to take that, and make something of it, it's a lot of heart and a lot of determination, and that's something I have. That's who I am. "

" I was a striker before a wrestler. I've always wanted to knock people out. "

" I try not to worry about what people think and what people think I should do each fight, how impressive I need to be. I need to go out there and win; that's what it comes down to. "

" No one ever wants fight of the night. Every fight I've gone in, I want knockout of the night. I want to be in and out quick. Sometimes, these guys just have a lot of grit - they're highly trained, and I just can't get them out of there, so I get fight of the night. "

" I think fans expect fighters to beat each other up, and what I expect out of myself is to stay of trouble. "

" He's been doing this a long time. Hats off to a champion, Carlos Condit. "

" I don't really pick my opponents. "

" I've actually done a really good job listening to my body, relaxing. Some days you train hard, some days you rest a little bit. "

" I'm a big baseball fan, and I love the Cards. "

" I don't like going to decisions. I always try to finish people, knock them out, beat them up, and that's always the game plan. "

" Sometimes spectacular things look really great, but when push comes to shove come fifth round, the basics, fundamentals and technical aspects are going to come into effect. "

" My coaches do all the breakdowns of my opponents, and I leave that up to them. "

" It's all about being sharp and not taking too much damage. That's always the game plan. "

" Who am I to say anybody can't do what they want to do and create their own destiny if they believe in something? "

" Trying to get over guys and knock them out, that's what fires me up. Decision victories, whoop dee doo, but finishing guys fires me up. "

" I fought for, like, five years in Hawaii - nothing better than that. It was awesome. Every fight, I went on vacation, and I wasn't cutting any weight, so I could just eat whatever I wanted. I enjoyed it. "

" When I came back to the UFC, I was just excited. "

" I worry about myself in the ring; I worry about what I can do and how I can dictate a fight. "

" The basics win fights. "

" Everyone's got an opinion, and not all of them are good ones. "

" I think people appreciate that I've been around so long, and I never gave up on myself and just kept grinding, and eventually I made it to the top. "

" I'm not just a guy who can knock people out. "