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" I'm really articulate when I do my thing - when I speak on the mic, when I do interviews. I'm a colorful personality. "

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" I remember from the very beginning when I walked out at UFC 40, when we had the big lights, the flames, everything. Fans want to see entertainment. "

" I understand my limits. I'm not going to go out there just to fight for money and to put on a show for people at the risk of my own health. I won't do that. "

" Maybe UFC and Bellator should take care of the fighters when their careers are done, as the NFL takes care of their players. Because they're making so much money off us. "

" The UFC makes about 99 percent of the money, and the rest goes to the fighters. That one percent ain't nothing compared to what they make on merchandising, on pay-per-view, and everything else they make around the world. "

" I have all the money I want. I don't need any more money. "

" I've been through every surgery that any athlete has ever been through, and I've prevailed through it. "

" I want to fight the top guys in the world. Guys who have names. Guys who I don't mind trying to make a mark off of me by them trying to win, which, they're gonna become losers. "

" I had my first fight at UFC 13, and it was just one of those things that become second nature to me. "

" I've seen everything during my career. "

" The fight game and the commentary game are two different worlds. "

" Fighting is my livelihood, and jeopardizing my body without a full understanding of conditions doesn't make any sense. No professional fighter will go into a risky match without a contract. "

" I love to compete. "

" I want to be remembered as a fighter with integrity. A fighter who did it this way, who has respect because he wanted to push the envelope for the fighters. "

" My kids come first on all measures. "

" After having my first surgery in 2003, having an ACL replacement, I never thought I'd be able to compete again. "

" I've had an ACL replaced in my left knee, ACL replaced in my right knee, 50 percent of my meniscus taken out of my right knee, lower back fusion, C-6, C-7 fused in my neck, C-5, C-4 disk replacement, C-4, C-3 fused. I have 26, 27 concussions, hundreds of stitches. I've been through the grinder. "

" Back when the UFC first started, I wanted to see what MMA was all about; at the time, I was training with Tank Abbott, and so I went to see him fight. While at the fight, I saw this guy fighting that I just crushed in high school wrestling, and I thought, 'Hey, I'm a street fighter, and I have a wrestling background,' so I gave it a shot. "

" I don't wanna fight a street fighter. "

" UFC, take me off your list. Take me off your Hall of Fame. "

" I did what Jon 'Bones' Jones couldn't do, and that was finish Bader in a minute and fifty-six seconds. "

" I don't have to prove anything else in this MMA world. "

" Retiring as the champion and being the only athlete to ever do that, I think goals like that are set in the mind. I want to make that happen. "

" I'm very thankful to Bellator. "

" I'm a Trump guy. I wasn't in the beginning, of course. I'm Mexican, when he said we need to take all the Mexicans out of United States... well, good luck on that one. They'll find a way to get back here anyways. "

" I fight on emotions. When I don't fight on emotions, I don't fight well. I fight on emotion, because I'm in for survival. "

" At the end of the day, us fighters, all we have is respect. "

" Shlemenko wants to make his name off of Tito Ortiz. He's not the first person ever to do this. People have been trying to use my name ever since I was the champ. "