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I thought eating Double Quarter Pounders with Big Mac sauce wasn't that bad, but I guess it was.
I'm not going to get tired in a 12 round boxing event, especially if I have time to prepare for it.
I'm the type of guy if you say something right now, whenever I see you, I'm going to hold you to that.
If it was... let's say they just banned 170, that it was either 55 or 85, I'd go to 185 before I'd go to 55.
The main reason I'm in this sport is not to run mouths and make posts on Twitter and stuff. It's to compete.
I've had to prove myself beyond that street-fighter image with some people in the UFC. It has a stigma to it.
It's a blessing and a curse. I feel like I've gotta fight every dude that stepped foot on 'The Ultimate Fighter.'
I didn't get a lot of questions asked earlier in my career, I guess. But I've always been the same guy, more or less.
I was definitely done with 155, then when I heard they ended up banning IVs I was like, there's no way I can make 55.
I never care about my opponents, especially now - I care about 'Gamebred' and 'Gamebred' is only going for the off button.
I've been fighting professionally since I was 18, and I've been doing three or four fights a year, just doing camp after camp.
I thought me hitting you and you not hitting me and me making you miss and even throwing more than you means that I won a fight.
My coaches know when it's a big fight, I'm at the gym because if they give me some pretender, another actor, I might not take it.
The things that I rely on, USADA doesn't have a problem with them. I'm gonna continue to be the same athlete that I've always been.
I'm not Ben Askren or a lot of these fighters. I've never called a reporter like, hey, I want to be on your show, book me, you know?
I could sit down and give USADA my opinions on it, but I want to say they've done a great job. Guys like me are shining because of USADA.
Back in the day, you used to have to fight three or four fights in one night with no dodging nobody, and that's what the sport got built on.
This is a sport of a lot of knowledge, of knowing yourself well, knowing your soul and your spirit, your abilities both physically and mentally.
It's taken me 26 professional fights to seek out nutritional help and I finally did and it's made a big change in my weight as far as weight cutting goes.
My mom would get up every day at 4 A.M. and worked two jobs. I always felt I was the poorest kid on the block. I had a chip on my shoulder about being broke.
At any given moment, if I see my bully, the guy who's trying to conquer me, we're going to find out. And if we could fight every time we came across each other, we would.
I do not want to fight Woodley because we're cool. We've worked out so much together, and he's looked out for me in the past with certain hookups that he had at the time. So I don't want to fight that dude.
I just want to go out and compete. Plus the main thing is, at 55 I need a good amount of time to prepare just to make the weight cut. At 70 I can just take fights as they come and just compete as much as I want.
If they're not the toughest fights I can get, then give me a complete washup, someone that'll be an easy payday. But I'd rather have the toughest fights I can get so I can get to the title the fastest way possible.
I get along just fine with Woodley. He's actually showed me a lot things in the past, and I've worked with him in the past training to help him get ready to fight. There's no hard feelings if me and hit had to scrap.
I used to be a 55er, Conor used to be a 45er. I'm naturally a 70 pounder, Conor's probably a natural 55er. I'm a small 70 pounder though and Conor's a decent-sized 55er so the size is not that much. It's not incomparable.
I feel like if they added a few weight classes it wouldn't change up the dynamics of the sport. You can still have champions and it wouldn't be like boxing. Boxing got messed up, because they've got so many belts, so many unifications. It's crazy.
Over everything, over friendships or anything, is my kids - and obviously fighting for that belt is my kids' future. It doesn't sound too nice, but if my mom had the belt, she better give it up because my kids gotta eat. If I'm willing to fight my mom, imagine a good friend.
I've known Woodley for nine-plus years, ten-plus years. We've worked out together plenty. He's one of the guys who used to slam me all around the place. I was at 155, he was at 170 pounds and he was just the wrestler that is a superpower. So that was one of the dudes that got my wrestling a little better from going with guys like that.
When you're up-and-coming in your career, yes, maybe you have to dodge certain guys. 'Hey, my wrestling isn't good yet, let me get it on-point and then I'll come back there,' or, 'I'm not going to fight that guy right now,' because whatever, when you're up-and-coming. But once you're already at the top of your game, you're in there, man. That's it.