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" I've experienced success, I've experienced failure, I've been a world champion, I've fought all over the world; I think I've experienced enough that I won't get in front of a million people and get gunshy. "

Eddie Alvarez

Success

People

Champion

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" I'll beat a bunch of good guys, and then I'll get a ton of fans come up to me and go, 'Do you think you can beat Conor McGregor?' And I'm like, 'Oh my God. You guys are disillusioned.' They think because this man's popular he's good. "

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" I have a tremendous support from a lot of the Underground fans. They believe in me, they want to see me do well, and they're behind me. But there are a lot of people out there who don't believe it, and so I want to separate perception and reality. I want to be able to do that. "

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" I enjoy fights the most once them nerves go away and you settle into the fight. That's when you can have your fun and be creative and just kind of be yourself. "

" I will do whatever the UFC tells me to do, but there's not a doubt in my mind that I can be champion. "

" 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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Promotion

Want

" If you're not successful at a certain weight, it rarely has anything to do with gaining or losing 10 pounds. It's something inside of you that you need to fix in order to win. It rarely has anything to do with cutting 10 pounds. "

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

" 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. "

" Where in normal neighborhoods, they would play stick ball and hockey and baseball, we used to slap box and bring boxing gloves down the street and box each other. "

" 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. "

" Every once in awhile, we all get a bad hand dealt to us. "

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Bad

Dealt

" I'm a little unconventional; I do things a little differently. "

" The truth is, a large majority of the market, I'd guess 80 percent, doesn't know anything more than what they are sold. "

" There's a part of martial arts where we need humility and respect. "

" 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. "

" Fighting in general, but especially when I was younger, was tough to deal with because there are so many external things going on that want to control you that most people have no clue about. "

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

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

" I rarely think that when a guy loses a fight, it's a weight issue. You can either fight, or you can't. "

" I want to prove the naysayers wrong. They're everywhere. And to be honest with you, they're all I see, and they're what motivates me. "

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

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

" Typically, I would say that I'm not defined by one loss and I'm not defined by one win. But I'd be lying if I told you I didn't harp on the loss at Madison Square Garden. "

" I like to be with my back against the wall in dangerous situations. "

" Out of nowhere, they made an interim belt and had Lee fight Ferguson. This is very odd for me; what went on there? You know. I don't know what went on there. "