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If a fan is cool, I'm cool with him. A fan could turn into a friend. But some people act super weird, and they make it uncomfortable for you.
You never know yourself until the chips are down. True strength is not measured when your at your strongest, but when you’re at your weakest.
The one thing about working with Scott Coker - I've never heard a bad thing about Scott Coker. And that means a lot, especially in our sport.
Retiring as the champion and being the only athlete to ever do that, I think goals like that are set in the mind. I want to make that happen.
This is a full-contact sport. It's the objective to disable your opponent, even if sparring or a real fight. You've got to use your technique.
We start to decline as humans and, particularly, as athletes right around 25 years old. If you're real lucky, you might push that to 27 or 28.
When I prepare, I am not messing around. I find the right places, the right people, and the right environment. Iceland is one of those places.
I was never a playboy, you know? But it's easy to say that because it's just a stereotype. 'OK, this boy did college so he must be a playboy.'
Everything I did in my life was about the title, but that's too much pressure over me. When I relaxed more, even my performance became better.
I feel like everybody's who fighting, young fighters and still learning and growing, that should be their goal - to be the UFC world champion.
If you lose a race or game in hockey, you lose a game. That's it. If you lose a fight you might lose part of your brain because of the damage.
What I've done is back off weight training and do more wrestling, cardio - where you're building muscle but not building weightlifting muscle.
I think my confidence offends a lot of people, but I think people should learn from it and be inspired by it, instead of finding it offensive.
We have concluded that it is not [science], and moreover that ID cannot uncouple itself from its creationist, and thus religious, antecedents.
Fighting is not what I do - it's who I am. It's what I was meant to do, what I was meant to be. I knew that right after my first MMA practice.
Daniel Cormier is a different champion. He has achieved some amazing things in his career, and for me, it would be very nice to be facing him.
I am a very technical guy. I'm proud of my technique, my fluidity, and my skill; that's what I work on every day. I try to out-technique guys.
When I prepare for a fight, I never expect it to be easy. I believe that that would create a chance for me to not give my best in the Octagon.
If a football player has a bad game, he's allowed to do that because he plays once or twice a week. With fighting, it's once every few months.
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.
Negativity takes no imagination. It's far easier to criticize someone's decisions after they make them than to propose better ones beforehand.
In training, I felt like my body would switch one way, but my leg would kind of stay in one direction. So I kind of felt like it wasn't stable.
You can have a fight card full of male fights, but yet when that women's fight comes on, that's what people watch. They're super excited by it.
You can sit there and punch me in the head for three minutes straight, but I'm gonna figure it out. I always do. I just know that about myself.
Anytime you lose one fight in the UFC, you kind of have to feel like you are on the chopping block. There is so much competition in this sport.
When I get in there, everything gets blocked out. I just focus on the person in the cage with me. That's all my brain has room for at the time.
That's what I do this for, to secure my family's future. I don't care about anything else. I'm able to spoil people, and that's the best thing.
You might win some, you might lose some. But you go in, you challenge yourself, you become a better man, a better individual, a better fighter.
Anytime you think about ring rust and travel and camps back-to-back, it helps not having any bad injuries and being able to train consistently.
Once I got over my anger and rage from childhood, once I stopped feeling like a victim, I was able to open myself to great sources of learning.
I'm a champion, and I believe that if you're a champion, you can't be afraid to go out there and test yourself against the greatest challenges.
Injuries are tough. I tore my ACL 50 percent in my left leg. I can't kick. I'm not going to fight without my left leg, which is my best weapon.
I'm scared of any fighter I've ever fought because they are some dangerous people to be dealing with. That's also where the anxiety comes from.
When the smoke clears and the money and opportunities lessen, so do the people around you who you think might have your best interests in mind.
There's a process to everything. If you fast track or make shortcuts in any way, and you get too much of one thing, you're just out of balance.
MMA has a lot of those things that you're not allowed to talk about; like, they're completely off-limits. So you have to make a joke out of it.
When I'm getting ready for a fight - when I'm in that locker room or I'm making that walk and I finally get to the Octagon - it's all spiritual.
I am not stupid. I am a very bright guy. I know that in the fighting game, you get people who get brain damage and do themselves long-term harm.
Some people just don't like you; you cannot satisfy everyone. But I've got a lot of supportive fans - people who do like me, do enjoy what I do.
As an athlete, there is no bigger compliment in my mind you can pay a guy when you say he can get the job done despite the obstacles he'll face.
I take much pride in winning. I don't accept losses, so I'm always going after that. The day I lose this fire, I think it's time for us to stop.
Compared to some other guys at 205, of course, I'll be a little small. But I've never tried to just physically go for it, bulk up, lift weights.
I've beaten a lot of great fighters, but people say the big ones, I've lost them all. I don't want to go down as a guy who loses his big fights.
I do have some unfinished business with Josh Thomson. I think that's a fight fans want to see, it's a fight Bellator wants, it's a fight I want.
I can pass a drug test in eight days with herbal cleansers. I drink 10 pounds of water and sweat out 10 pounds of water every day. I'll be fine.
I know why I lost my fight to Ryan Bader. Because I was injured. I needed surgery but I didn't want to back out because I was fighting in Japan.
I wanted to play football, and my football coach told me if I wanted to be a football player, I should wrestle. That's why I started to wrestle.
You don't really realize the effect those things have on you when you're growing up but then when you look back you can see how they molded you.
One of my mom's best lines is... You're not training to be the best in the world, you're training to be the best in the world on your worst day.
That's why I love fighting, because I get to have a big battle every couple months to make up for the little battles I have to forfeit every day