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You can delay but you can't deny.
I've always felt like the underdog.
I've really valued each area of MMA.
I think Nick Diaz is a great fighter.
You can't get too excited about your own medicine.
It's just comical how short-term people's memories are.
I fight with a game plan, but sometimes you have an audible.
If the risk is high, the reward is high... Why not roll the dice?
Man, I fought since pre-K. I was small for my grade, but I was tough.
When you're working on a Marvel movie, their legal department do not play.
I gotta be able to beat good guys at any moment. I think that's what I'm taking.
Life isn't easy, life isn't fair, when you get your chance, make sure you take it.
I owe my family first, but I also have others around me that I have to perform for.
I just prepare and train to be able to stay on top as long as I can and retire on top.
USADA tested me, and I came back positive for hard work and beast-like characteristics.
I'm gonna fall back, do my thing, but goddamn, I'm going to be a tough dude to deal with.
For me, it's just being wiser, finding my opportunities, and really fighting a smart fight.
I don't need to be in a comfortable spot to achieve greatness. I fight for it no matter what.
Johnny Hendricks has better credentials, but in MMA, I might be the best wrestler for the style.
People don't realize how sick Amanda Nunes is. She beats some of the UFC bantamweight males in the gym.
I think that - this is my personal opinion - but sometimes African American athletes are considered overly cocky.
What is there not to market? I fight like hell. I'm built a certain way, never taken performance-enhancing drugs.
Have you seen any African American athlete that appeals to the urban market actually bring that market to the MMA?
I have the highest takedown defense in the entire welterweight division, maybe the second-highest on the UFC roster.
I've had five submissions in the first round. I have 3, 4, 5 knockouts. I've had decisions. I've had grinding fights.
God does things on his time. He wanted me to sit down and wanted me to get some other aspects of my life back in order.
No one should ever bring my muscular build up and think it is going to have something to do with my output in the fight.
When things get you in the corner, and it feels like you can't go on, you can fight back. You're never out of the fight.
At the end of the day, it's a big difference to get the draw than to get the win, but I'll take either over a loss any day.
Nick Diaz is in the top five welterweights of all time in my eyes. Georges St-Pierre is the number one welterweight in my eyes.
The only person I'd be interested in boxing would have to be one of the best of the best. It would have to be, like, Andre Ward.
When you fighting in New York, I feel like it would be disrespectful if I didn't walk out with some legendary East Coast hip-hop.
Amanda Nunes - I've been telling people that forever - she could compete with a lot of the male bantamweights in American Top Team.
Nobody criticizes The Rock. Nobody criticizes Randy Couture when he goes over and did 'Expendables 3' or anybody who's a crossover.
I think the elements to shock the world is either the ability to wrestle and grind somebody out or the ability to knock someone out.
Nobody should be treated any type of way because of their color, their race, their gender, their socioeconomic status. We're all human.
Let's put the cards on the table. Real is real. If I was a different complexion, I think people and fans would treat me a different way.
The thing I hate about mixed martial arts is that it's no longer a sport. It's a big-money business, and it's an entertainment industry.
I've had friends who have been beaten up by police officers who put phone books in their T-shirts and then beat them up, then drive off.
If you bring in testosterone outside your body, it probably stops producing it because it thinks you're going to get it from the outside.
It would be silly for me to work almost two and a half years chomping out whoever they put in front of me and for me to not capture that belt.
I don't want to be the dude that you just think about with a crazy suit, talking crap, fighting in these super fights and driving a Rolls-Royce.
I know when you do things systematically, non-stop, and repetition, that's how you make things happen in your life. It's the same thing in faith.
No matter what anybody says or thinks, nobody believes that I'm not the number one welterweight in Strikeforce. I think that's not even a question.
Legacy is really important to me. It's more important than dollars to me. So with that said, I try to find the fights that would solidify my legacy.
Goal number one is to be the welterweight champion of the world, and I'm away from my family way too often. This is a sport where we can make cash now.
I don't feel an obligation to go by the rankings - we all know how those rankings are produced anyway. I want to go out there and fight the money fight.
The second I bring up race in the sport, I'm immediately race-baiting. But I can point out clear facts, where no other champion has been treated like me.
When you're watching people in non-title fights making four times the amount of money that a champion makes, it takes away the flavor of being a champion.
I'm just going to go out there, pop on my leather gloves, and constantly make connections outside the Octagon, and that will make me bigger in the Octagon.