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" You could waterboard me for days - for years - and I would still be cracking jokes about how bad Rachel Maddow is. "

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" I'm not hard to find unless you're ISIS - then, it's a rough night. "

" I've been part of task forces hunting the most evil humans to walk the face of this planet. I believe all of that was for a reason, because I love America. "

" I got my hand slapped for talking about fighter pay. That was a big one. I had Dana White yell at me in front of, like, 20 other fighters. "

" I love to deadlift, and it's a huge part of my training because it works every muscle in the body. "

" I've been to Afghanistan and Iraq a few times, and then I've done deployments elsewhere - with Special Forces, we go all over the place. "

" Fighting is a very independent thing, and it's not a team sport, and it's not the NFL, you know, because we don't have to look the same. "

" I have a pretty amazing life. Even back-to-back deployments - Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Turkey - it's still pretty rewarding. "

" Kettlebells are the best for everything. We do snatches and swings with them for explosiveness and hamstring and lower back strength, and we'll also throw them into conditioning circuits where I'll do a burpee holding the kettlebells and transition into a 2-handed snatch. "

" I want to thank all of my opponents. Iron sharpens iron, and every great victory or crushing defeat occurred because there was someone who trained hard and had the courage to meet me across the cage. "

" I want to thank the military community for their support. I'll never be able to explain how much you motivated me and how much I always tried to make you proud. "

" Fighting is a lonely thing. You train with your team. You bleed with them. You trust your coaches, but ultimately, you are in the cage alone. "

" My military service has nothing to do with what I do in the ring. "

" If Katie Couric or Anderson Cooper asked me to come on to their shows and give them content every single day, I would do it because that gives me access to a huge population of people that I can hopefully, in some way, plant seeds in fertile soil, and those seeds would grow into oak trees of freedom. "

" My adult life is filled with the things horror movies are made of. "

" I wish that everyone that's complaining about how things are here would shut their mouth for a little bit, go around the world and see how it is everywhere else. "

" You're always going to get an honest, straightforward response from me. Honest to a fault. "

" It's a good thing I have another job because the UFC doesn't pay very well. "

" People want to hear what I do with Special Forces, as a ranger, as a sniper. And I'm like 'What does that have to do with fighting?' Let's talk about fighting. They couldn't be more different; there's nothing similar about them. "

" I want to earn a top-contender status in the UFC, so I have to fight the best. "

" I've fought guys that I like. When you're fighting a guy that you don't like, you have to be able to separate certain aspects of it. "

" If you've been hit, if you've been put down, if you've lost, that next time you come out, you have to make a testament: you have to make a demonstration, a showing, that it's not going to happen again. "

" I'm very disciplined in the approach I take for my training. "

" I'm competitive when I fight, but I don't get emotionally involved. "

" Find something bigger than yourself and pour every ounce of who you are into it. If that's your family, be the best father on Earth. If you are a cop, firefighter, or a trash man, be the best. "

" When 9/11 happened, I was like, 'I gotta do something.' I went and talked to the recruiters, and I found out about the Special Forces 18X program. They take qualified people off the street, and they give them a shot at Special Forces. I was like, 'So I could go try out for Special Forces?' "

" No matter what I do, it's all about the workouts. When I travel, I make sure I get my workout in first. When I'm in camp for a fight, I don't travel at all, and I train three times a day. The secret is to just keep working. "

" I'm asked daily about how and why I don't have PTSD. I'm probably the last person on Earth you should ask about this stuff. "

" I will always have that, 'I want to be the best fighter on the planet' thing in me. "

" I think the most rewarding thing is going over and being deployed and having done meaningful things. "