"I don't talk bad about people who I roll with."
"There's always the pressure to win. That never goes away, but being a main event, I want to go out there and put on a great show for the fans and live up to being a main event. That doesn't really stress me out or pressure me anymore. The fight is enough."
"You can't just be only going to the gym when you sign a fight contract or you'll just be the same fighter every time, just more experienced."
"No matter where I came from, I'm a fighter."
"Fighting comes down to who you are as a person. With B.J. Penn, he has no problems, not a hard upbringing and came up with money or whatever and he's just a fighter, he enjoys the fight and he refined his skills so I don't think it necessarily has to be a rough upbringing for guys to be great fighters."
"I'm not fighting just to fight. I'm fighting to be the world champ."
"I'm proud of everything I accomplished in this sport."
"I probably should have been fighting at 155 for a long time, but I was so close to the top at 145."
"Cutting to featherweight took months of intense weight cutting and training. Going to lightweight, I can fight more often."
"Yeah I do think featherweight is done for me. It sucks because I worked hard and fought a lot of hard fights and did a lot of things right to move up the rankings and I have to abandon all that moving to 155 starting fresh."
"I think a lot of fighters are cutting way too much weight."
"Every fight is like a different landscape of what you go through. But sometimes it's small injuries. Sometimes it's lessons you walk away with. Every fight is different but they all hurt, for sure."
"I come from south Louisiana where everyone has a blue-collar work ethic."
"People I grew up with, my family, work in the oil fields. Everyone works a labor job - construction, concrete. All we know is work. It's a physical culture."
"Win or lose or draw, you always go back and critique your performance and say you could have done things better. Even if I put the guy away in one round, I can go back and say I made a lot of mistakes and need to tighten up. But that's the type of person I am. Improve. Improve. Improve. When I lose I come back stronger than ever."
"It's not hard to look great against a guy who isn't moving a lot."
"I'm not a quitter, man. Just look at my history."
"I knew I had the ability to become a world champion, I knew I did. I knew I just needed the opportunity."
"Grit, determination, the right amount of crazy, self belief - everything it takes to be a champion. I have that."
"It's MMA. Anything can happen. Nothing's for sure."
"Fighting, you have to be selfish."
"My goal and path is always to get to the mountaintop and be a world champion, and leave a fighting legacy."
"Winning solves everything."
"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."
"Those deep, dog fights - I love that. That's why I fight."
