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I'll always try to go the safest route, but once someone strikes you or puts their hands on you then it's on, at least for me.
One of my biggest assets is my ability to focus on something and go out and get it, but it's one of my biggest weaknesses too.
I had good teachers and I loved to compete in jiu-jitsu. I was doing good, a world champ, but I always knew I wanted to fight.
Jiu-jitsu is very 'democratic,' it does not matter how you are physically - it is all about your mind, and a lot of technique.
I started this fight career with one objective. When I step inside a ring or an octagon, it is to beat the guy in front of me.
To fight a bigger guy you need to train with bigger guys and it takes a lot more on your body. And it's not your weight class.
I notice that I'm full of myself, and I am arrogant to some degree, but it's honestly only when it comes to talking about MMA.
My whole thing was getting in there with these guys and really pushing their limits. Testing their toughness and their desire.
It's important to have the support of your family, but when is time to move away? You have to walk with your own legs one day.
The UFC's a great company; they're doing great things for the sport. I just don't feel like they're doing great things for me.
It's good to be able to feel appreciated and to be able to know that your efforts and the impact in the sport meant something.
If you fight a hungry fighter and you look into their eyes and you're not as hungry as they are, that's when you get eaten up.
Be brave, be bold and above all be honest, some people will hate you and some will love you but they will all see the real you
My coaches and I always stress getting better and working on all aspects, so I'm ready to fight and take it to the next level.
I don't like going to decisions. I always try to finish people, knock them out, beat them up, and that's always the game plan.
I used to fight with hate. There's been a lot of aggression in my past growing up and stuff. That's because I was hurt myself.
If I'm not fighting for a good reason, then your personal life starts to get messy, and it's like, 'What am I doing this for?'
I started very young... I learned my martial arts first in the street. There were always fights. That's the culture in Brazil.
Things happen for some reason. I don't know what, but I just think about the positives, focus on getting better, and that's it.
I'm still in the gym every day for training, putting in the same hard work every week. That's the only way I know how to do it.
If you can talk the talk but cant walk the walk youll look like a fool. That's the risk but with great risk comes great reward.
As a professional athlete I can tell you I feel every single emotion and not one of them ever helped me in a fist-fight before.
I enjoy competition. I enjoy challenges. If a challenge is in front of me and it appeals to me, I will go ahead and conquer it.
To me, when you're not as hungry to train hard and learn new things and get better as you once were, I think it's time to stop.
For the title, if they say, 'Ok, let's sit and wait,' I will sit and wait because I know it's a once in a lifetime opportunity.
I see the business side of it and moving up the ladder towards the title. That's where the money's at. That's the overall goal.
I've said it before, I'm not a matchmaker, I don't call the shots. I just prepare and fight the guys after I sign the contract.
Some guys are real noble guys, like Rich Franklin or Randy Couture. These guys are just really good people who happen to fight.
Make sure your approach is consistent and steady so that you can maintain the progress you're making as your journey continues.
I don't know that I'm the best fighter in the world, but I know I can beat anybody in the world. And that's all I need to know.
My parents always kept us in the house. We weren't allowed to spend the night at other people's houses. We were sheltered kids.
Wrestling became very stale and boring for me, and I wasn't really making any money with it. So I decided to get into fighting.
Benson Henderson is a professional; he's a champion. He knows how to handle himself in the cage and he knows how to win fights.
It's great to see there's a push behind women's MMA because everyone who's involved in women's MMA is very passionate about it.
Im not trying to hate on nobody.I love everybody that works towards what I was working towards.Its a hard game,its a hard life.
I lived in Iowa for pretty much the rest of my life, but I just moved to St. Louis and opened up a gym and MMA training center.
I've actually done a really good job listening to my body, relaxing. Some days you train hard, some days you rest a little bit.
I'm not a matchmaker; I don't run the UFC - I'm a fighter. So I'll stick to doing what I do best: training and punching people.
My number one goal was to be the best fighter ever in the Octagon. I think I can hold hands with many who can stake that claim.
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.
I made some adaptations, as I combined karate with my boxing game. I'm adding a couple of nice things from Shotokan to my game.
In the natural life, we eat, we drink water, we give birth, we pay taxes. In the spiritual life, we can only reach it by faith.
It's a dangerous sport, you can get really hurt. God helped me, protected me so I wouldn't have any damage, any serious injury.
It's hard to just go one day from another to being one of the best fighters in the world to just stop doing what you love to do.
When I'm feeling comfortable at home, confident in my day-to-day, being healthy and being the best person I can be, MMA is easy.
There are people who have great skills, who do great things, but don't embody the whole animal that is the fight game like I do.
People say that I'm a boxer. I actually started with kick boxing, and then I moved onto boxing, and then I moved onto grappling.
Yes, sir, no, sir, clock in, clock out. Why were you late? Why are you not in today? That's not how humans are supposed to live.
Unfounded fears about your competence and abilities can cripple your unique talents and gifts, which are waiting to be released.
I went out there, and I fought Anderson Silva, and you know what? I got a big W, and that's massive for my career going forward.