"Wrestling has made me very mentally strong, conditioned me really well for MMA, and given me phenomenal balance."
"Obviously, throwing leg kicks in the first round is not smart, but it's something that I can really utilize in the later rounds to both score points and look to finish the fight."
"Heath Herring is tough as nails, and he fights hard."
"For me, 240 is my target weight."
"While wrestling in college as a junior, it came to a point where wrestling just wasn't enough for me anymore. I love wrestling, but I felt like I was missing something, and so the striking part about MMA, the boxing and kickboxing, was what got me really interested in MMA."
"I've always loved competing; I've always loved working out - and wrestling, of course."
"I don't think about being undefeated; I don't think about what people say in the media about me, whether it's good or bad. I just don't think of it."
"Know what your strengths are, but also keep in mind what your weaknesses are; always work on your weaknesses."
"Do I think my wrestling is the best? No, I think it's up there around the top."
"Growing, up I didn't really have anyone to look up to. There weren't a lot of Mexicans on T.V. except for those in boxing."
"I'm not really too big of a sports fan. Everything I watch is MMA, you know, great fights. But other sports, not really too much."
"For me, to make a living off of working out is a dream for me. I don't know, I really can't be in an office and stuff like that. I want to do something that I love, and training, that's what motivates me."
"My life is calm. Once I get home from practice, I just want to spend time with my family."
"Once I started wrestling, I really got into it, and I just knew that I wanted to do that - I wanted to wrestle all the way through college."
"For every new guy, you need to change a few things in the way you train, the way you take every fight. For every guy I train for, I prepare differently and learn new things, and I just keep them. That's why it's good to be fighting new people, because you add new things to your arsenal and keep getting better and better all the time."
"I never go into a fight thinking, 'I have to finish this guy' - that's not a part of my game plan. I go out there and fight the way I fight."
"You just have to fight the perfect fight to win. You have to have a game plan and follow it. You have to develop every time you go out there and keep getting better."
"All I can tell you is I'm going to be myself. I'm not the type of person that is going to develop into some character or come up with some phrase I will always say."
"I'm going to be the best fighter I can be and focus on being me."
"I have the Mexican blood. I'm proud to be Mexican."
"Don't bad-mouth me and then try to be my friend."
"If you lose, what can you do to get better and learn from it?"
"I grew up watching my parents work in the fields. That's where I get my work ethic from, because I saw them work hard my whole life."
"You can't dwell on the past and be down on yourself because you lost. You have to take the positive away from it and see how you can improve yourself moving forward."
"There is always a possibility that you could lose, because the outcome isn't written yet: you have to go out and write it. If you want it bad enough, if you do the training and prepare yourself to succeed, and do everything in your power to win, you'll have a better chance of succeeding."
