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" I'm a huge fan of the Diaz boys. I'm a huge fan of what they've done for our sport. I feel like it's not about the rankings anymore. Sometimes the rankings are a little shaky. "

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" I remember recording over my mom's cassettes and putting on 'Thuggish Ruggish Bone,' and my mom be like, 'What the hell?' Being that I was born in '82, I've been listening to all of the classics throughout my years. "

Tyron Woodley

Hell

Born

Listening

" When someone's portraying something they're not to get underneath my skin, I'm just going to funnel that into a great strategy, and I'm going to try to get him out of there quick. "

" I've really valued each area of MMA. "

" USADA tested me, and I came back positive for hard work and beast-like characteristics. "

Tyron Woodley

Work

Hard Work

" Martin Luther King didn't know he was going to have a day named after him; Muhammad Ali didn't know he was going to be the people's champion. He was doing what he was doing because it was right. "

" If I'm straight outta shape for a fight, I might need 12 weeks or more to get in shape. "

" I love playing Rick Ross' 'Port of Miami' album. Jeezy's 'Thug Motivation 101' is a classic in my opinion, and I still listen to that album to this day. I'm a big fan of OutKast, so pretty much any album they put out is great in my opinion, but I find myself listening to 'Aquemini' a lot. Anything Kendrick Lamar does is great. "

" 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. "

" Johnny Hendricks has better credentials, but in MMA, I might be the best wrestler for the style. "

" Fighting is the only sport where fans don't understand this is our living. "

" For me, I think you can coach guys in martial artsm, and wrestling can be one aspect of it, but I have no desire to be an NCAA wrestling coach again. It was one of the worst coaching jobs I have ever had. "

" 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

Fight

Road

" Amanda Nunes - I've been telling people that forever - she could compete with a lot of the male bantamweights in American Top Team. "

" Legacy is really important to me. It's more important than dollars to me. So with that said, I try to find the fights that would solidify my legacy. "

Tyron Woodley

Important

Said

" You can't get too excited about your own medicine. "

" 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

You

" 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. "

" If I have a chance to make a larger amount of money in a legacy fight against the No. 1 welterweight in history, it makes sense for me to want that fight. You have a lot of pay-per-view money coming to this company. Why shouldn't the champion partake in a piece of that pie? "

" I don't say MMA fans are racist at all. What I said is that fans are opinionated, especially because we're the only professional sport to give them that access. "

" When you're working on a Marvel movie, their legal department do not play. "

" My goal is to go out there and dominate. We all know if I'm in a position and I see my opponent hurt by landing good striking, I'm going to try to get him out of there. If I'm in the top position or in the position to finish by submission, I'm going to look for that. I don't feel the need to prove the haters wrong. "

" Nobody should be treated any type of way because of their color, their race, their gender, their socioeconomic status. We're all human. "

" Goal number one is to be the welterweight champion of the world, and I'm away from my family way too often. This is a sport where we can make cash now. "

" Let's put the cards on the table. Real is real. If I was a different complexion, I think people and fans would treat me a different way. "

" I don't want to be the dude that you just think about with a crazy suit, talking crap, fighting in these super fights and driving a Rolls-Royce. "

" There's some ignorant people in the world, and if I spend time trying to convince people to think like me, I'll be wasting valuable time I could use to be growing my business, perfecting my craft as a fighter, watching film, studying, or just enjoying time with my family. Or just sleeping. "

" I want to be compensated. If I'm working at the post office, and I'm sorting the same mail as the person to the right, and they're making $25 an hour and I'm making $21, I need to know what is this person doing so much better that he's getting $4 more than me. That's just knowing the market and being a smart businessman. "

Tyron Woodley

Smart

Know

" God does things on his time. He wanted me to sit down and wanted me to get some other aspects of my life back in order. "

" It can be a grind, training and fighting and waiting for your chance. But when that opportunity presents itself, you have to be ready because you never know if or when you'll get another shot. "

" 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. "