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

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" Gray Maynard? Kenny Florian? All these guys, they're UFC fighters, that's all. They're pushed by the UFC, but when they leave the UFC, they're forgotten. When's the last time you heard Josh Neer's name? You haven't. When's the last time you heard about Roger Hurerta? You haven't. They're no ones anymore. "

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

" The idea is to go out there and win in a dominant fashion. That changes people's minds, the way they're thinking about me, and lets people know I'm here to contend for a title. "

" It's a fist fight - the idea is to go out there and impose my will. "

" I've been fighting the best guys, so I would like a gimme fight. "

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

" I want to fight Gilbert Melendez. "

" The business aspect of this sport is a contradiction to what it's really about, and that's knowing something for what it is and not just what it looks like. "

" There's a lot of guys in the UFC who are good at one thing, and they get matched up stylistically well. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I boxed. I did track and field; I did basketball, football, any sport I was able to sign up for. "

" The fights for me are always about what you cannot see, the intangibles. It's about what's inside - what really is inside. "

" 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?' "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Money is always a motivating factor, but money has never been my driving force. In my first fight, I paid the promoter in order for me to fight. I was in the hole 300 bucks for that. Money has always been a byproduct of me doing something I love. "

" I've said it from the very beginning: Fighting the best guys in the world doesn't pay as good as the circus. I want to join the circus. I'm trying to get that circus money. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I don't like going to 155; I do it because everyone else does. "

" My biggest fear as a fighter is to be knocked out in front of millions of people. But after it actually happened, there's this calmness about you that says everything is OK. "

" I started this fight career with one objective. When I step inside a ring or an octagon, it is to beat the guy in front of me. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "