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I like proving people wrong.
I want to have a belt somewhere.
You're never guaranteed anything.
My right hand is pretty powerful.
I'm not in the UFC to be mediocre.
Ring rust doesn't affect me too much.
I'm in this sport to win a championship.
I was pretty one-dimensional, a wrestler.
To be a two-division champion, it's surreal, man.
One thing I learned in my career is to be patient.
I'm used to playing the underdog role and the favorite.
I believe I can beat everybody at every division, I truly do.
The wrestling community is a tight community, I love you all.
I'm more of a grinder, just get out there and get the job done.
I love proving people wrong and proving myself right and my coaches.
I've been the underdog a lot in the UFC and I love playing that role.
Definitely, you don't want a bunch of hooligans representing the sport.
When I get into the Octagon I look at it as another sparring session kind of.
Look, I love the UFC and I love fighting in the UFC. Gotta make sense, though.
I get wanting to fight in the UFC. I got my start there. I fought 20 times there.
Machida always has his elusiveness and whatnot and Shogun has the tools to beat him.
When have I ever bad-mouthed any of my opponents? I never have. That's not my style.
Years and years ago, Jon Jones was untouchable. You couldn't win a round against him.
I felt like I deserved a title shot a few times in the UFC and was kind of passed over.
I grew up in a bracket sport, in wrestling. You win, that does the talking, you move on.
You can call Roy Nelson a wrestler, but he's never fought a dynamic, explosive wrestler.
It doesn't matter who stands in front of me, I've got to find a way to go out there and win.
Some fighters don't like to travel when they fight but I fought in Australia and I loved it.
My whole style of wrestling is I like to use the truck double. It's basically a tackle for MMA.
I'm not one of those guys talking smack, because we've seen it catches up to you at some point.
I don't like to take any time off because I think with all my time I should be trying to get better.
It really wasn't until halfway through my career that I learned had to jab and to box and to kickbox.
In college wrestling we had to make weight every weekend, so it's not bad at all. I get it off easily.
We came up in that - keep your mouth shut, let your hard work do the talking, and I came into MMA like that.
Jon Jones is a dynamic fighter, he's very exciting, he's been going out there and beating people convincingly.
I've fought on 'The Ultimate Fighter' in front of 30-40 people, and I kinda like that. There's no distractions.
I've fallen short in my career, in MMA, but it is what it is. You're going to do that. I just wanted opportunities.
Winning is everything to us, but at the same time you've gotta have exciting fights and keep pushing it in that way.
Seeing friends become successful, you go, 'I can do that, too.' I ran with it fresh out of college. MMA was the next step.
I had a great contract coming out of the UFC into Bellator, but it was that second contract that made me really, really happy.
We get stereotyped as MMA fighters as being barbarian and trying to hurt people. A lot of us are college-educated, like myself.
My wrestling actually helps my striking and my striking helps my wrestling. I just learned how to put it all together through synergy.
Some people say I miss a lot of shots, but I'm not missing them, that's how I set them up. I'm not in danger if I don't get a takedown.
The men and women in the United States Military allow me to live my dream, and I want to continue to do everything I can to thank them.
The lowest I've ever made - and this was on the prelims - was 35 grand on a fight. I've made upwards of 80 grand on a fight on sponsors.
I don't put Jardine on a pedestal or worry about any kind of step-up. He's just another fighter standing in the way of me achieving my goal.
I treat it just like a workday. When I'm training, I'm training. When I'm not, I'm not. And when I'm not in fight prep, we have fun weekends.
If I had the opportunity to fight any fighter, if you'd asked me when I started fighting, it would be Fedor. That aura and mystique about him.
I remember standing across from Rampage Jackson when I was younger - I watched him when I was coming up - and then I was fighting him in Japan.
I'm in the gym - that's my full-time job. I leave it all in there. When I walk out of that gym I am now the husband, the friend and the father.