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" My end goal is not to break the record for cashing in the most. I want to be treated fair and what I feel is fair, but that's not my sole purpose; that's not my purpose. "

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

Tyron Woodley

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Team

American

" There's a lot of guys in my weight class that are talking - they're chirping. Everybody wants the title. Everybody wants to fight me; everybody thinks they can beat me. People are talking because they think I can't fight. "

" I've had friends who have been beaten up by police officers who put phone books in their T-shirts and then beat them up, then drive off. "

" When you're watching people in non-title fights making four times the amount of money that a champion makes, it takes away the flavor of being a champion. "

" Nobody criticizes The Rock. Nobody criticizes Randy Couture when he goes over and did 'Expendables 3' or anybody who's a crossover. "

" I used to be in a street fight at least twice a week, so locking me in a cage with somebody, with a set of rules and a referee to jump in if something get ugly, and a time limit, like, it don't scare me. "

" Rampage Jackson came to the UFC with a brain. He came to the UFC with a huge following from being in Asia with Pride. He was a personality before he came to the UFC. You don't see them putting marketing money behind him to blow him up. "

" I don't think I'll get the credit I deserve, but I didn't get into this game for credit. I got into this game to be the greatest welterweight ever. If I keep knocking them out one by one, I think that will happen. "

" I guess you could say I fell into it. The main goal was to be successful and to make my family proud. Back then, MMA was just getting started, and there didn't seem to be a ton of rules. It seemed pretty brutal, and I was still pretty focused on wrestling. But I decided to give it a shot. "

" I don't believe in ring rust. I used to believe in ring rust, but I talked to my buddy Dominic Cruz, who's a bantamweight, and he basically said it's a mindset. What you do in between in your time off determines how you're going to look when you come in there. "

" Two men can talk on the phone and maybe not agree on everything but at least respect each other. "

" At the end of the day, it's a big difference to get the draw than to get the win, but I'll take either over a loss any day. "

" 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've had five submissions in the first round. I have 3, 4, 5 knockouts. I've had decisions. I've had grinding fights. "

" Nick Diaz is in the top five welterweights of all time in my eyes. Georges St-Pierre is the number one welterweight in my eyes. "

" 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 look at the top five right now and see guys like Kelvin Gastelum, who I've beaten, Carlos Condit, who I've beaten, Robbie Lawler, who I've beaten. How are those guys more notable than I am, and I'm the champion of the world? "

" If you are the best in the world, and you believe you should be fighting for a title, I think it is important to get those things out. Because a closed mouth doesn't get fed. "

" 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 have the highest takedown defense in the entire welterweight division, maybe the second-highest on the UFC roster. "

" I don't feel an obligation to go by the rankings - we all know how those rankings are produced anyway. I want to go out there and fight the money fight. "

Tyron Woodley

Feel

Fight

" I think a kid from the inner city, if I had to recruit, is the ideal person for MMA. They'd be less likely to be affected by hard work. They'd be less likely to not appreciate something when someone is helping them out, because they probably don't have a ton of stuff. "

" I didn't pick wrestling over football. My coaches picked that for me. I never wanted to wrestle in college. I always wanted to play football. They thought I was too small, but I had a lot of heart. "

" To be just straight up honest, Conor McGregor is a guy that fought at 145 - ever in his life. I haven't weighed 145 since my sophomore year of high school. "

" 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. "

" For me, it's just being wiser, finding my opportunities, and really fighting a smart fight. "

" What is there not to market? I fight like hell. I'm built a certain way, never taken performance-enhancing drugs. "

" For me, in general, I've been blessed to have hospitality from several different camps I've been able to train at and get an approval by the American Top Team guys to go anywhere. "

Tyron Woodley

Hospitality

Blessed

" I'm a person who believes that if a team that's producing a champion and producing contenders in that same division, then the coaches should be proud of that and pat themselves on the back because they're really creating a dynasty, so that's the way I take it. "

" 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. "