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I like to take chances.
I am a Division 1 wrestler.
I love reading comments online.
I want to be the world champion.
I'm not infallible. Never will be.
I don't get hit a ton on the button.
God, it's such an unforgiving sport.
False confidence is false confidence.
You will regret not seeing me fight live.
I don't want to fight guys ranked behind me.
I just like punching loudmouths in the face.
My timing and pressure is the definition of MMA.
I do think I'm the best lightweight in the world.
Do I think people are sleeping on me? Absolutely.
At the end of the day, it's an unforgiving sport.
Skill wise, there's nobody that's gonna outwork me.
Whoever they send me a contract for, I'll fight him.
This is entertainment business and I fight for money.
I don't fight to win or lose. I fight to entertain people.
I know plenty of wrestlers who are 15-0 and going nowhere.
I've never been in a street fight before, like one-on-one.
It's life or death for me every single time I step in the cage.
Humans recognize effort, and that's what I do. I give max effort.
What I do is not for the faint of heart, but I'm a different breed.
I wanted to take the short road to the top, and I think I'm doing that.
I want to fight Khabib. I think I'm one of the biggest threats to his title.
I happen to have a college education and I never planned on being a fighter.
In hindsight, I'd love to be undefeated still, but that's not what this sport is.
I could lose and it could be the best fight ever, it still does great things for me.
I'm trying to be as real as I can and I'm being myself. I'm not gonna create an act.
There's not a lot of people that can sit there and take the punishment that I can deliver.
When I'm done, I want to be known as the fighter that everybody wishes they could've seen live.
The way you stop a takedown in wrestling is to meet force with force. You don't try to go away.
I owe it to myself to not sell myself short by taking a pay cut just to go to another organization.
From a business standpoint, of course I'm not gonna fight someone that's unranked or something like that.
I have a human services bachelors degree and I want to work social work, I want to work with at-risk youth.
With the way I fight, the UFC's not stupid. For one, they probably know that they're don't have me forever.
I win and lose in one way. And that's either putting them to sleep or putting it on the line and going to sleep.
I want to go to Brazil, I want to fight top Brazilians in Brazil. I want to go to Russia, fight Khabib in Russia.
I'm hoping to earn enough to buy a few properties, that way I can make money that way and I want to do social work.
I watched the UFC way back in the day, before there were time limits. I always knew it's what I wanted to do some day.
Me and my brother, as anybody who's a twin will tell you... it's a competitive relationship. Ours is really competitive.
I'm a coachable person. I don't like to lead myself. I've been taught by great people, and I was able to listen to them.
I want to be a fighter, this is what I love to do, but it's totally taxing on the body and the mind. Especially the mind.
I know that the only way I'm going to advance in this sport is to be exciting and to finish fights, and I'm fine with that.
I'm not larger than life, my personality is not larger than life, I promise you. But when I fight I am larger than life, I promise you that.
Working in a juvenile detention center, being a probation officer for at-risk youths, I'll do something like that. Something nice and stable.
You only have to go on a couple message boards to know what the fans want, and the fans want you to put it on the line and to entertain them.
I think Khabib is going to take him down immediately, or create some kind of scramble immediately. I don't think Poirier stops his takedowns.
Melvin Guillard went to a split decision with me, he left the third round in a wheelchair. He did not walk to the back - he left in a wheelchair.