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" The most excited you'll ever see me is after knocking a guy out. "

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" I have a great time with the kids. I'm always happy when they're around. "

" I have had people that I was doing some promotion stuff with go, 'You know, we had an idea. We should have, like, a legends fight.' It's always that. That conversation always comes up when we're talking about doing some promotion for a company or helping them promote their league. "

" My first contract I was offered by the UFC, or my second contract, it was 1-and-1, 2-and-2, 3-and-3. That's $12,000 for the year. Don't complain to me about fighter pay. It was $12,000 for a year, and it was exclusive. "

" Mountain Dew was my favorite drink through college; it kept me up studying for a lot of tests. "

" When I'm training at home, I have five meals for the day that I just heat up. It's all planned, and that's what I eat. "

" I started doing martial arts since I was 12, and then I went into wrestling in college. After I met John Hackleman, I started getting really serious about it, and after a few amateur fights, I got an invite to the UFC and have been in love with it ever since. "

" That's one of the reasons I retired. To stick around, the way I was fighting, I would have to start playing it safe. I went out on my shield. That's the way I liked it. I fought that way my whole career. I don't want to bore people my last three or four fights. "

" Jon Jones is a great fighter. "

" Everyone is on a fair playing field. It's safer for athletes, it's safer for the fighters - it's just a safer thing for fighters. So I think the USADA thing is good. "

" I don't think the itch to fight has ever left me, ever. I mean, I got paid to do what I love for a living, and I got paid very well to do it. So that's going to always be there. That's always going to be like, 'Man, I wouldn't mind getting out there again.' "

" I've never been intimidated by anyone. "

" I like Glover Teixeira; he's a former training partner. "

" You can actually find a lot of gyms that do teach mixed martial arts. But it's just like with any martial art - you've got to look at the coaches, go watch some classes, see how people treat each other and how the coaches treat the students. "

" I'd like to have all of my losses back. But it's too late for that. "

" I think the reasons I retired stay the same. I don't want to change my style. I can't take a punch like I used to for whatever reason. I've heard all sorts of theories as to why that would happen, but I can't do it. "

" With the fights I have lost, I always want another shot and think that I can beat them. "

" My style of fighting is to go down and trying to finish the guy and trying to end fights, not laying up because I'm winning the fight, just keep going after it. "

" Having 'The Ultimate Fighter' was the thing that did it for us, live fighting on TV. That's what we had to do, was get a live fight on TV. It couldn't have worked out better. "

" I think, as a fighter, I kept improving. My movements improved, my accuracy improved. "

" Every time I win, I prove something: I'm the best guy in the world at what I do. "

" I was the guy that would cram for everything, so I guess I was a bit of a slacker. I was a procrastinator. I spent a lot of all-nighters getting ready for tests. "

" I come from a wrestling background but don't really use it in most of my fights. "

" The worst thing is losing because you got tired, because you didn't work hard enough in training. Ugh, that's the worst. "

" Someone said Anderson Silva and GSP would be a $12 million fight. I told people that for $12 million, I'd fight them both right now. At the same time. People took that as 'He's going to fight again.' It was a joke. But if you came up with $12 million, yeah, of course I will fight again. "

" I like aggressive fighters who will come after me. "

" Everybody doesn't want to hurt to lower guys from getting paid, but it comes down to, it's a performance-based business. You get good, you win, then you get paid. "

" Numbers have always come easy to me. "

" I tried in my career to be really good to fans. "

" I'm competitive at everything. "