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I'm going to win a gold medal.
There's more to life than fighting.
I don't give a damn about my record.
I'm not hugely monetarily motivated.
I'm just a straightforward kind of dude.
One of my best qualities is my persistence.
I'm open to any welterweight on Planet Earth.
I don't try to hide my feelings or what I think.
I'm dominant positionally, and my hands got power.
In MMA, all of these coaches are doing their best.
I've been around the block. I travel a lot to gyms.
I try to wrestle one time a week with good, solid people.
I'm not willing to compromise my goals for monetary value.
Wrestling is a worldwide sport. It's totally international.
I have a really hard time with people telling me what to do.
I speak plainly, I don't beat around the bush, and I'm just genuine.
A male athlete's peak, I believe, should be somewhere between 26 and 30.
I got in MMA for one reason: to see if I could be the best in the world.
One of the big things is I try not to worry about things I can't control.
If you can't play the good guy, sometimes you've got to play the villain.
I've got more skills in my pinky finger than half the damn guys in the UFC.
I don't care if you're an Asian fan or an American fan: I'm happy to perform.
My view on wrestling in MMA is changed a lot since I started really doing it.
When you're competing, you need to be selfish. You need to think of yourself first.
I'll sell a million pay-per-views if you're smart enough to market me the right way.
I think a lot of fans don't know MMA that well. They don't understand the subtleties.
Squash - definitely a rich's person sport, and it's only played in a handful of countries.
People are stubborn, and sometimes even if change is good, people will always oppose change.
People who are great at what they do, they do it the same way no matter who the opponent is.
There's no honor in faking an injury. There is no integrity, because you are lying about it.
If you're competing right, if you're doing it right, competition should be a very selfish pursuit.
If you think about who retires during their prime, the number of athletes who do that is very small.
If my team and family are happy for me, I'm not going to let what some fans think affect me in any way.
I don't like Jay Hieron very much. He just bothers me, the way he talks, and he thinks very highly of himself.
I'm not really a soccer fan. I understand they have skill and all that running up and down the pitch and what not.
Some people, they don't get a few takedowns, they start getting nervous, and they fade. That's just not in my character.
As long as I'm speaking the truth, I'm going to be OK with what I'm saying. That's kind of how I've lived my whole life.
Every single time you compete, I don't care what it is, you want to perform the best you can, and I feel like I'm doing that.
You need to take care of yourself first, and you can't think of others quite as much if you want to be a successful competitor.
Listen folks, if you want your son to grow up to be a man, don't have him run around on a field kicking a ball; get him wrestling.
One of my favorite topics to read about my whole life has just been famous athletes, and a lot of those have been combat athletes.
I've never feared anyone or worried what they said as long as what I'm telling is the truth, and I'm not telling lies about people.
My two things I always said is, No. 1, I'd be retired by the time I had my first kid, and No. 2, I'd be retired by the time I was 30.
Colby Covington has a very low IQ. He says a lot of stupid things, and it's almost embarrassing that he represents our country that way.
Having the letters UFC behind my name is not the be-all, end-all it is for someone. Some people think once they get into the UFC, that's it.
I'm more of a purist competitor, and I enjoy the fighting aspect of it, but people enjoy my personality, and they enjoy that I tell the truth.
When I'm thinking of sports, when I'm thinking of a boy growing up and being a man, I'm thinking of three things - honor, integrity, and toughness.
In college wrestling, you see a lot of talented athletes come in and fail because Division I class wrestling is the pinnacle of wrestling in America.
I trained with Jorge Masvidal when I've been training MMA for 2-1/2 months in Coconut Creek, Fla., in, like, December 2008. I was beating him up then!
If you look across my career, whether it be mixed martial arts or wrestling, it's very, very, very rare that I lose to someone that I'm not supposed to.