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If you think about who retires during their prime, the number of athletes who do that is very small.

Obviously, in a sport like golf, we see Tiger Woods fall off. There's not really too much damage he can take from that, although when you watch him and he sucks, and you're like, 'God, you used to be so good but you suck now,' it's disconcerting as a fan.

If you're competing right, if you're doing it right, competition should be a very selfish pursuit.

I wasn't granted the opportunity to fight some of the best guys in the world. And that was something that was not on my end by any sense of the imagination.

When someone decides to come into the UFC, and they don't have a combat sports background, you're kind of thinking, 'Does he really understand what he's getting into?'

I don't like Jay Hieron very much. He just bothers me, the way he talks, and he thinks very highly of himself.

Andrey Koreshkov is not well-rounded. He's been taken down and mounted and has his back taken by Lyman Good, which tells me he's a terrible grappler. He isn't well rounded. He's a good striker, but that's it.

I fight with good strikers every day.

Obviously, everyone knows it is hard to hang it up, but I'm definitely going to try and do it the right way and not like how combat athletes have done and hold on too long for every last fleeting moment. I don't want to be one of those people.

I'm going to win a gold medal.

A lot of wrestling interviews are boring, plain and simple. They don't say anything you never heard before. Your basic wrestling interview is, you ask me how am I going to do, and I say, 'I'm going to do my best. I'm going to wrestle hard.'

I don't like all the cheating that's going in mixed martial arts. I don't know what percentage of high-level fighters do it, but I think it would be a significant amount.

As long as I'm speaking the truth, I'm going to be OK with what I'm saying. That's kind of how I've lived my whole life.

I've never feared anyone or worried what they said as long as what I'm telling is the truth, and I'm not telling lies about people.

If I'm coaching at my academy, and we were drilling the front headlock, we don't just say, 'OK, now go five-minute goes,' because how many tries are they gonna get at going at the front headlock position?

If I want a kid to be good at a front headlock - which, if you're gonna wrestle at a high level, you need a good front headlock - I'm gonna put him in there 50 times in that practice.

I've got more skills in my pinky finger than half the damn guys in the UFC.

Having the letters UFC behind my name is not the be-all, end-all it is for someone. Some people think once they get into the UFC, that's it.

I just don't get hit a lot. That's what I'm good at.

I'm not really a soccer fan. I understand they have skill and all that running up and down the pitch and what not.

There's no honor in faking an injury. There is no integrity, because you are lying about it.

When I'm thinking of sports, when I'm thinking of a boy growing up and being a man, I'm thinking of three things - honor, integrity, and toughness.

Listen folks, if you want your son to grow up to be a man, don't have him run around on a field kicking a ball; get him wrestling.

It's just funny because I think a long time back I was not a fan favorite at all, and now people have followed my journey, have seen the struggle and the perseverance I've had, and they can relate to that.

I don't hold grudges.

I don't think the number of followers has anything to do with how good I am fighting. That said, I am good at fighting, and I do have a lot of followers.

I speak plainly, I don't beat around the bush, and I'm just genuine.

I'm more of a purist competitor, and I enjoy the fighting aspect of it, but people enjoy my personality, and they enjoy that I tell the truth.

Some people, they don't get a few takedowns, they start getting nervous, and they fade. That's just not in my character.

One of the big things is I try not to worry about things I can't control.

I don't care if you're an Asian fan or an American fan: I'm happy to perform.

I don't care about having a fancy car. I don't have a lot of the wants and needs that a lot of people have where I would need to make a $1 million a fight.

I got in MMA for one reason: to see if I could be the best in the world.

If your coach ain't got your back, who's got your back?

I've been around the block. I travel a lot to gyms.

Squash - definitely a rich's person sport, and it's only played in a handful of countries.

Wrestling is a worldwide sport. It's totally international.

My view on wrestling in MMA is changed a lot since I started really doing it.

I try to wrestle one time a week with good, solid people.

In wrestling, if you want to be the best wrestler, you show up at the U.S. Nationals. If you win that, you go to World Team Trials. You make the World Team, you go to the World Championships, and we all know who the best is at the end of the year.

I think people realize that I'm one of the best welterweights, whether I'm number one or number four or number five or number six.

So I think there's a lot of people who are really interested to see how good I really am, because they know I'm good, but they're not really sure how good. They want to see that, and there's definitely interest in that, but because of some other people's shortsightedness, maybe it never really happens.

When I say something, I generally stick to it, no matter what it is in life.

Young guys kind of have this chip on their shoulder of, 'I want to prove something,' right? 'I've got to prove how tough I am. I've got to prove how good I am.' And man, now as I'm getting older, I think it's almost sad when guys my age and older still have that chip on their shoulder.

It's like, hey, I've done what I could do, I've accomplished a lot, and now this - especially with wrestling - if this next generation wants to pass me up, great job. Good for them.

A male athlete's peak, I believe, should be somewhere between 26 and 30.

Man, I competed 40 times in three months when I was wrestling, my whole life.

I love running my business, and I love wrestling. I love helping kids.

There's more to life than fighting.

I'm not willing to compromise my goals for monetary value.

I'm just a straightforward kind of dude.

I'm not hugely monetarily motivated.

I don't try to hide my feelings or what I think.

One of my best qualities is my persistence.

When I came through the ranks in wrestling - in high school and college - those systems have been in place for 100 years, and they're fairly standard training across the board for all the colleges.

There are conferences every year where all the major coaches get together, and they talk about the issues in wrestling, what's going to happen. There's a major governing body, U.S.A. Wrestling, which oversees a lot of the issues. The organization is there in wrestling to make a very well-balanced, organized system.

In MMA, all of these coaches are doing their best.

A Division I college wrestling team has so many guys at such a high level it'd be like having every single guy in the gym being a top 10 UFC guy, and that's who you're competing against every single day. Most everyone has been wrestling since they were 5 years old. It's been their dream to wrestle in college. There's such a high level of intensity.

I trained with Jorge Masvidal when I've been training MMA for 2-1/2 months in Coconut Creek, Fla., in, like, December 2008. I was beating him up then!

I don't give a damn about my record.

I want to go and fight the best guys in the world and show people I'm the best. And hey, if something doesn't go my way - I don't think that's gonna happen. I realize that's a possibility in competition, and that's what happens.

The worst 24- to 36-hour period of my whole camp, the part I like the least, is the part where I've gotta cut 13 to 15 pounds of water weight.

People are stubborn, and sometimes even if change is good, people will always oppose change.

My two things I always said is, No. 1, I'd be retired by the time I had my first kid, and No. 2, I'd be retired by the time I was 30.

I think every promoter's job is to pump their athletes up. Like, you see, Dana White did it all the time with branding people: all of a sudden, they're the best thing since sliced bread, just because that's the promoter's job.

I'm open to any welterweight on Planet Earth.

I'm open to a super fight.

While it may not have been the flashiest or the most creative, I brought a very unique skill set, and I executed in a fashion that very few have done before me and, I think, very few will do after me.

I'll sell a million pay-per-views if you're smart enough to market me the right way.

If you can't say where you're going, you're not going to get there. And I've known all along where I'm going, and sometimes the road takes a few curves that you didn't see, but you've got to stay the path.

I have a really hard time with people telling me what to do.

Every single time you compete, I don't care what it is, you want to perform the best you can, and I feel like I'm doing that.

You know what, the thing about Bellator was, I beat everyone they had.

Dana White ain't going to take care of you the second after you can't make him a whole bunch of money.

When you're competing, you need to be selfish. You need to think of yourself first.

You need to take care of yourself first, and you can't think of others quite as much if you want to be a successful competitor.

If you look across my career, whether it be mixed martial arts or wrestling, it's very, very, very rare that I lose to someone that I'm not supposed to.

People who are great at what they do, they do it the same way no matter who the opponent is.

When I couldn't sign with the UFC, I think my goal of being Number 1 in the world went out the window. There's just no way of doing that at Welterweight without being in the UFC. I could go 50-0, and as long as it's outside the UFC, I'm not going to be Number 1.

I have a great relationship with the whole Missouri athletic department. I made friends with everyone from the administrators to the janitors and everyone in between.

I have nothing against Bellator at all.

I don't really want to be famous.

I like coaching a lot.

In college wrestling, you see a lot of talented athletes come in and fail because Division I class wrestling is the pinnacle of wrestling in America.

I don't think I could ever make 155. I made 163 for the Olympics, and that is a super low weight for me. I'm a fairly big person, and for me to make 163 was incredibly difficult.

I think I'm the best in the world at 170 pounds, so why would I need to go down? If, at some point, I beat everyone at 170, I'd consider going up. If I've eliminated all my challenges, yeah, at that point I would consider going up.

I just like taunting people.

If my team and family are happy for me, I'm not going to let what some fans think affect me in any way.

I think a lot of fans don't know MMA that well. They don't understand the subtleties.

If you can't play the good guy, sometimes you've got to play the villain.

One of my favorite topics to read about my whole life has just been famous athletes, and a lot of those have been combat athletes.

Some people who come from high levels in other backgrounds where they're used to being the best or used to being on a kind of pedestal, it's hard to kind of lower yourself again and just be one of the grunts. I kind of enjoyed that challenge in MMA.

I'm dominant positionally, and my hands got power.

My main motivation is to prove I'm No. 1 in the world.

Colby Covington is an idiot. He is so stupid.

Colby Covington has a very low IQ. He says a lot of stupid things, and it's almost embarrassing that he represents our country that way.

I think Georges St-Pierre should go down to fight Tyron Woodley. I think he has a chance.

I wouldn't fight Tyron Woodley; we go way, way back.

Nate Diaz sucks.

Dana White's a scumbag. I don't take anything he says with any value.

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