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There was years when my father didn't even make a hundred grand - or barely made a hundred grand - and sure, we had a maid, but she only came twice a week. What do you think happened the other five days? You think those dishes washed themselves? You think those clothes got themselves in the hamper?

There are rules that say 'If a fighter gets old, when a fighter slows down, when a fighter stops looking the same, then he can never come back.' I don't like that.

I've been in a position where I've been barely doing any damage, and the ref stopped it. It's just sport.

Accosting somebody in public can be regrettable. Accosting a gangster can be hazardous.

I like Bryan Caraway a lot; I used to train with him. I consider him a friend.

Brock Lesnar made a career out of refusing to do media and not being accessible.

When I was a kid, I was a big fan of the regional scene. I read 'Pro Wrestling Illustrated,' and I watched Portland Wrestling and everything I could.

I'm a tournament guy; that's what I grew up doing.

All our careers end the same: Face down and embarrassed.

Fans don't even know what they want at times.

The fight takes 15 minutes. The build-up takes 90 days. It takes that for a reason.

I had dreams in 2000 of being an Olympian for boxing. I never talk about it.

I've competitively boxed. It's definitely Plan B for me, but I know how to box.

I'm competitive.

As a fighter, that's not something that ever factors in, whether you go first or last or you walk out first or you walk out second. It's not something that ever factors in or you feel slighted about. I don't think that anybody would care. The job is the same.

Georges St-Pierre is the greatest fighter to have ever done it.

The soreness you feel after a fight or after a good battle, it's the best feeling in the world. You might sit and complain about it, but you feel so accomplished.

All medicine is made to make you better. If it did the opposite, it would be malpractice.

Werdum's open to being knocked out in any fight because he's so reckless, but that's also what makes him so damn dynamic.

Very normal trajectory of a fighter's career - you start out fighting at the YMCA. You move on to the dog park. You get into a coliseum. On your way out, you go back to the YMCA, and then you finish up at the dog park.

The only thing more embellished than Floyd Mayweather's pay-per-view buys is Floyd Mayweather's net worth. But his spending habits are real.

You can never have the comeback if you don't have the retirement.

People bring it up to me: 'Well, you're only in your spot because you can talk well.' Okay, first off, you could be right. But second, what - am I supposed to apologize for this? No.

Every time you win, you get another fight. Every time you get a fight, you get promotion, marketing, and media. Those things are what makes stars.

The greatest form of expression - or, at least, the most common that we have as human beings, what separates us from the animals - is speaking: the ability to communicate.

Fighting is an expression. It's a form of speech, and that's why they call it martial arts. It's an art.

One element of wrestling that I know what I grew up with we put a lot of emphasis towards was the takedown. But, you could win an Olympic championship and never score a takedown, and I don't know if MMA fans are even aware of that.

A double leg in MMA is completely different than what you would do in wrestling because the posture's different. You're standing upright as opposed to bent over; you're slipping a punch as a opposed to grabbing a guy's elbow and doing a traditional elbow pull or slide-by in wrestling.

Wrestlers tend to do good in MMA because they tend to be just some tough guys. It's not a karate situation where they grew up their whole life punching the air; in a wrestling situation, you grab a hold of another human being every day.

The kind of wrestler that's going to do well in a combat style event like MMA is one that can explode through - doesn't need to spend time on the mat - hit his opponent, get him off his feet, and get on top quickly.

I thought if you tapped out, you lost the round. Come to find out, you actually lose the fight.

I'm a Catholic, and not because I just happened to wake up as a Catholic. I'm not going to be persuaded on any topic, especially not that.

If your body produces testosterone naturally, fine. Mine doesn't.

I'm not going to be one of the guys who hangs around if he doesn't have a road to the title.

I've had a lot of fights, and they haven't all gone my way.

When you go, 'Listen, I didn't know. I didn't know the rules.' That works. That's a good, solid defense. One time.

Whenever you can evoke a strong emotion and want somebody to tune in, whether it's to see you win or get beat up - and I've been on both sides of that - it's a win.

What you don't want is for somebody to not care. Whenever they have no feeling at all, that's bad. Even if they kind of like you or they kind of don't, that's also bad. It's got to be a strong emotion one way or the other.

For me, I prefer to be the heel.

I want to make the UFC money.

The UFC does not owe me a thing. Nothing. I am in debt to them.

Lance Armstrong did a number of things, and he gave himself cancer.

I see a lot of people try to come out and copy me, duplicate me, and give it the old college try, but at the end of the day, there's only one Chael Sonnen.

I'm a God-fearing man, go to church every Sunday, and have since I was a boy. But if I ever found out that God cared one way or another about a borderline illegal fist-fight on Saturday night, I would be so greatly disappointed that it would make rethink my entire belief system.

If you call a Brazilian out publicly, you're going to be fighting that Brazilian. That's in their culture.

I'm not after the money or the fame. I'm after the world championship, and that's it.

I'm a wrestler, so I'm used to not being paid, and I'm used to doing five or six competitions a day and paying someone else to allow me into the event.

Every fight day, I just stay in my room the entire day, and I just stay in bed. I sleep as late as I can, which usually isn't very late; I'm kind of an early riser. But I try to just stay there in bed. I don't usually eat the day of the fight. I don't eat until after the fight.

I train every day but Christmas. I'm not the guy who gets a contract signed and then trains for a fight. I'm at practice every single day, whether I've got a match or not.

I've suffered rib injuries, but I've never had a broken one. I've dislocated it and popped it, and even that, a big step down from broken, it hurts so bad. But you can't really move. You can't even fully breathe and take a deep breath of air.

I don't think I've ever had a better experience in the sport than coaching 'The Ultimate Fighter.' I got to do it twice, but I got to really build relationships there that will last forever.

I would never discredit the sport or my opponent by reading my injury list before or after the fight. I've always thought it's a very underhanded thing to do, and it's a very cowardly thing to do, to come out and say, 'I'm hurt,' particularly if you win a fight.

I was never a bully; I would take on everybody at any time. Whether that was the No. 1 guy in the world or whether that was the No. 100 guy in the world, it didn't make any bit of difference. If somebody wanted to fight, I would show up and fight.

Jealousy is a hell of a thing. There's a reason it's one of the deadly sins.

I will never hope to walk into a room and be cheered.

I have never asked the crowd for their approval, and I will never start.

I'm OK with being booed.

I will not pretend to be something that I'm not. I certainly won't do it to win the audience over.

Every time you have a huge fight in wrestling, in boxing, in MMA, both guys are sure they're going to win. They really believe it.

Jose Aldo, this guy's a chicken. I can't even tell you how good Jose Aldo is, but he doesn't think it.

When Georges St-Pierre retired and Jon Jones was absent, I had Jose Aldo, the No. 1 pound-for-pound fighter in the world. That's how highly I think of him.

I wouldn't poke fun at someone if they were weak. I wouldn't bully somebody.

I'm not going to sidestep anybody, I'm not going to back down from anybody at any weight, and most importantly, I'm not going to pick on a guy who is weaker.

I think I can beat any man.

I don't want to be an also-ran.

Nobody wants to fight Brian Stann. I'm not the only guy, and that's not a big secret.

I've got two 10-8 rounds against Anderson Silva. That's just the truth. I have no equal at middleweight.

I don't really know what 'respect' means. That sounds like something a kid in the street says after he's getting ready to take your coat and your shoes.

I never receive backlash for my comments. I receive praise.

Jon Jones' skill set is unique. Jon Jones goes out there and does video game moves that the announcers can't even call because they've never seen them before.

Ronda's a very basic and straightforward fighter. However, she's a masterful competitor.

There's a camaraderie that comes with this sport, but fighting Anderson Silva is a lot like eating Chinese food: twenty minutes after I do it, I'm going to want to do it again.

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