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" 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. "

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" 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?' "

" Where most kids play stickball and hockey, I'd walk down the streets with two sets of boxing gloves and knock on my friend's door and see if he wanted to box. There were boxing gyms on every corner. "

" I can walk into a restaurant and knock five guys out, become 5-0 real quick. It's about the quality of opponent. You have to beat the right guys to call yourself the No. 1 contender. "

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

" As far as Nurmagomedov, I just don't get how you become the No. 1 contender without actually fighting guys who are ranked in the top 10. It kind of baffles me. "

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

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

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

" The right thing to do is just ask what you can give, and then let things manifest in the time they're supposed to. "

" 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. "

" I beat Gilbert Melendez, and he got two shots at the title. "

" Although I'm shorter, all of my weight I carry in my back and my butt. That's where most of my weight is. "

" It's MMA - anything can happen. You can throw a punch from one knee, a punch from anywhere. "

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

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

" I want an opportunity to fight the best in the world and make millions of dollars doing it. "

" I think it's important to say that I am genuinely thankful for the time at Bellator. "

" I'm looking to grab the UFC and pull them back in the direction of Philadelphia. "

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

" If they could put us all in a tournament, that'd be the best way, but they're not going to do that here at the UFC. "

" 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. "

" There's not a single strike that good preparation can't negate. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The goal never changes. It's about beating the guy in front of you. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 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. "