My resume, my career, and my legacy in this sport means more to me then collecting some checks.

It's unfair to think that we can do what we do with the intensity that we do it and expect injuries to not happen.

I have to be smart. You cannot be going in there, trying to go forward and pressure guys, and be taking damage and getting hurt on the way to doing it.

People always get confused. They talk about coaches. The reality is, these coaches and managers that everybody thinks are in so much control, they work for us. They're our employees.

Who I have fought and how I have fought, it says something about me.

If there's an opportunity for me to compete at something, I'm there.

My confidence comes from me, not from Jon Jones. I can't draw my confidence from another person.

I usually fight a lot. 2015, I fought three times. I fought three of the best guys in the entire world.

I think that Amanda Nunes and Julianna Pena and Valentina Shevchenko... they've showed how much this level has gone up in female fighting in a very short period of time.

I've done nothing but show up and fight, go to work inside the Octagon, outside the Octagon, and do things right. But people want to talk about me and discredit me.

I'm not really worried about what Anthony Johnson does. I have to worry about what I do to prepare myself.

I'm not a guy that really likes to pile onto somebody. Doesn't really matter who it is.

You've got to be all-in on this sport; you can't be one foot out the door.

I have definitely worked on that... being efficient and also being smarter with my pressure.

As a champion and one of the best fighters in the world, guys should always step up to the plate and want to fight Jon Jones.

I'm confident in my team. I'm confident in my coaches. I'm confident in my ability. I worked really hard to become a better mixed martial artist.

Just being in the gym every day with someone with goals in common is special.

I've always had a chip on my shoulder. It kind of drives me. It's something that allows me to train harder, train longer, work better.

Cain's an animal, man. Cain's a competitor. I want to spar with Cain because I know if I'm able to hang with him here in the gym, once I get out there in the cage and fight, I mean, I've already gone toe-to-toe with Cain Velasquez, you know?

How can you train if you're constantly worried about getting injured?

I want to be regarded as the best guy in the world, and I want to beat the best guy in the world.

If you value your wins and you value what you've done over the course of your career, then you wouldn't want people harboring over a loss, even though you fought extremely well.

Being able to go forward has been good, you know? I'm lucky to have that ability, to pressure guys and make them falter and wilt.

I went and worked at a TV station in Stillwater. I was actually account manager for commercial accounts, selling ad space and everything.

I'm honored to be one of the guys that is seen as a leader of this great team - a team that has stood the test of time. AKA is one of the only teams that has been around since the beginning of the MMA explosion, and it's a huge honor for me to be named captain.

When I watch Rumble Johnson, he's a bully. He bullies guys. He makes them go backward, and he traps them. I'm not going to allow that. If he tries to bully me, I'll stand right in front of him, and if he hits me, I'll hit him right back. And then we'll see how the bully handles it when nobody is going to run away from him.

There are ways to win fights, and sometimes you don't always choose the easiest way to win a fight.

In my opinion, whenever you get two guys who want to fight each and two guys who want to be in a good fight, you let them fight.

Wrestling is a hard sport, but it's only a sport.

If you say John Smith is the greatest wrestler in Oklahoma history, now that's big.

My low center of gravity allows me to defend takedowns a lot better than most people. It's very hard to get to my legs. It's going to be really hard to take me down. There are a lot of positives to being my size.

If I didn't have the wrestling name that I have, I wouldn't have gotten the financial contract that I got with Strikeforce or the long-term contract or the television contract. That's all because of wrestling.

I want to be the best.

I was a fan of Jon Jones. I thought he was great.

I'm not on a slander campaign to ruin Jon Jones publicly. That's not what I set out to do.

If I would have won that Olympic gold medal, I would have gotten a job somewhere coaching at a university, and I would be totally content with my life.

If you're the UFC champion, you're the best in the world at what you do, and I get the opportunity to do that.

I've always been a rough kid.

I was into basketball, but then once I found contact sports, it was over. I never played basketball again in my life.

I'm so bad at baseball, I can't even hit now.

I need to be competing. Coaching is good, but I like to be in the fire.

I had a really dark time after the Olympic Games... But then I said to myself, 'This is a sport that's blessed me with a home, with an education, with some money. I can't hate this sport. This sport took me out of Louisiana. This sport gave me a chance when so many people don't get a chance. And I love this sport.'

I know what I've done, and I know who I am.

Ovince Saint Preux needs to know that not only me but every other guy at the American Kickboxing Academy are ready and open to open those doors in trying to help him accomplish his goals.

I don't mind playing spoiler.

My little girl's in Heaven. She's my angel, and I can draw from that.

I've dealt with a lot in my life.

The only thing that can ever make a Louisiana boy feel better is Popeye's.

I grew up in Louisiana. We have red beans and rice, and there's a Popeye's on every corner.

When you look at my record at 10-0 as a professional and look at Jon Jones' record when he was 10-0, who was his toughest guy? Stephan Bonnar, and he did not finish him. I have fought higher-caliber opponents at this stage in my career than Jon did in his at 9-1; His tenth fight was Matt Hammil.