I'm better than Jon Jones. I'm better than Sean Combs. I am even better than John Holmes.

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

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

Brian Stann is a great guy. I voted him in for the President of the United States in 2008, and I will write him in again in 2012.

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

I'm a Republican.

I'm candy-coated poison, and you should not believe anything else.

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

Triangle chokes are the refuge for cowards. I would never stoop to that level of locking my legs around a man and squeezing.

I was in Las Vegas when the Nogueira brothers first touched down in America. There was a bus - this is a true story. There was a bus that pulled up to a red light, and Little Nog tried to feed it a carrot while Big Nog was petting it. He thought it was a horse. This really happened.

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

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.

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'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.

When I was young, they used to call me 'foreman,' not because I was in charge, but because I did the work of four men.

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.

I listen to these pundits all the time breaking down Trump - 'He's brash, and he's bold, and he's successful' - and none of those are what it is. There's one word to sum it up, and it's courage. He has courage.

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 love going to the ring hurt or sick or tired and trying to figure out how to win anyway.

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

My dad was a plumber. That's hard work. He never missed a day of work. I will never disrespect him by not showing up for an athletic competition that has a maximum duration of 25 minutes. There should be forfeiture if you have to pull out of a fight. If you don't show up, it should be a loss on your record.

When I'm a fan, I show up to boo. I don't show up to cheer; I show up to heckle.

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

Cain Velasquez, for my money, is the most intimidating force ever in heavyweight combat.

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.

As fighters, the stark reality is, there's times in that cage when we want out. There's times when we've had enough and we want out, and we're able to recognize defeat.

I go to a wrestling match, and I love it. But at a wrestling match, on every level - that includes Division I - you go into an empty and cold gym, you roll out a mat, and you set 10 chairs up on each side. That's a dual meet, and it's very hard to act like it's a big event.

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

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.

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

My ideal fight would be against the smallest guy with the most atrocious record in the largest venue for the most insane paycheck. I love easy fights.

I'm competitive.

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

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.

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.

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

I don't walk around looking into cameras and telling people I'm the best fighter in the world just to hear myself talk. I say it for the same reason they put warnings on packages of cigarettes, and fighting Chael Sonnen may be hazardous to one's health.

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.

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.

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?

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

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.

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

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.

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.