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Even when I teach my MMA classes in the gym, it's hard to teach what I do. It's more of state of flow, a state of feel. It's not a robotic thing like one, two, three, kick, one, two, three, switch, jab, cross. It's completely unorthodox. Everything is about rhythm, tempo and pace. It's a different style, man.
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I'm too long, I'm too rangy, I can box, I can kick, I can wrestle, I can do jiu-jitsu.
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If we're just going to have contenders fighting just to fight, that doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Then I might as well just start jumping around divisions too because there's a lot of fun fights for myself in other divisions that I think I would love to entertain.
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We're all fighting for a reason. We're not fighting to just fight. There's got to be some type of reward at the end of the rainbow and that reward is a big, shiny, UFC gold belt. That changes every fighter's life dramatically for the better.
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You can't keep a star from shining and my star's going to shine bright.
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I'm a lot bigger than Faber, I'm pretty sure I'm a lot stronger than Faber and I'm pretty sure I'm a lot faster than Faber.
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I got to the pinnacle of the sport for a reason and that's to make money. I didn't come here just to give handouts.
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I fight for people's entertainment, but at the same time that entertainment comes at a cost.
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I'm in this to change my life, to change my fortunes. I'm not in there to just fight for free.
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It's MMA, man, the wild, wild west. You can just expect that anything can happen, and that's just where I'm at with things.
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I like to put my money where my mouth is and go out there and perform and do what I gotta do.
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I've never been one to shy away from a challenge and I've never been one to shay away from talking a big game.
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I want to be in my prime making the big money, enough money to put away so I can do something.
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I don't want to be resentful to the sport. I want to be able to leave the sport on a high note.
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You cant really put a value on the UFC name. That alone has value in itself.
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You go out there and say I fight for the UFC, people know exactly what that is.
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To be in the UFC and have the name but not the earnings, good for you, you get a hand clasp and a shake and a don't let the door hit you on the way out sort of thing.
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Whether it's Bellator, OneFC, World Series, whatever, the door's open for me. Financial stability is the most important thing for me.
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About this sport, you gotta kind of stay active. If you're not active, you're easily forgotten. It's like out of sight, out of mind.
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You show your teeth more when you show what you're made of and your heart.
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I lost as amateur, I lost a bunch of times as a wrestler, and you always come back.
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People can say the media stuff drains you and everything, but you set everything up accordingly to the schedule.
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I'm like, 'Man, if I'm going to have this idle time, I might as well be in school, do something positive where I'm not just wasting my prime years and not getting something else in return.' If I'm in school and training, that's OK. I did that in college. It worked.
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This is the weirdest thing. I've been told one thing, that all these guys turned me down, x,y, z. I take to Twitter and some of these guys are like, 'Yeah, I'll take the fight,' then you don't hear anything of it for the next few weeks.
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If I'm only fighting once or twice a year, that's just not going to be enough to make a dent in the sport or enough financially for me to get myself to where I want to be and position myself.
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I've got personality. And I can actually fight. I think that combination alone sells.
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My whole thing is I can't wait to inspire the next young fighters from my hometown.
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It's all about brand exposure, building your brand, building your image and just getting to that next level as an athlete.
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It's almost out of sight out of mind because there's so many cards. One great fight could happens one weekend and another great fight happens next weekend, you kind of get swallowed up in that pack. So you have to find a way to separate yourself and what better way to do that than on ESPN?
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If you're a sports fan and you're home and you're washing dishes, usually your TV is on ESPN and you're just getting the highlights and keeping up-to-date with all of the sports going around, all of the news.
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I would never want to sell a fight based on stuff about race. That's not the type of person that I am. I would never go that route to push a fight.
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You gotta do what you gotta do to win, so I don't really get to play around as much.
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You only get 15 minutes to work and show your art and everything can you do. At the end of the day, it's a fight.
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You might be an elite-level athlete in the room, but if no one gets to see you display your craft it doesn't matter.
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Just like any other job, you want a raise you've got to put in the work and you've got to show that you're deserving and what you bring to the table and all kinds of other stuff to show that you're worthy of so and so pay scale.
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A lot of guys think you're almost supposed to just get stuff but you've got to put in the work, you've got to lay the foundations.
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Unfortunately, we don't have the luxury of being paid like NBA, NFL and soccer and baseball athletes. They have that cushion where they can kind of hang out. Even the guys on the bench. But for us, we don't fight, we don't get paid and that's the scary reality to it all.
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