I want to fight the fights that fans want to see.

I'm not really chasing rematches.

I'm a complete fighter and I'm not scared, I'm very willing to use every part of the game to get the win by any means necessary.

Of course every fighter, whether they admit it or not, they have aches and pains and they go into fights hurt.

If you're training for a fight, you're going to be pretty much, there's going to be days where you're hurting.

Normal pain is no problem, that just comes with the job.

I've just been in a lot of big fights, and I've been in some good spots and some bad spots.

The way I feel, I'm the best in the world.

I think I fought my first fight in Zuffa in 2010.

I'm the kind of guy that grows, and that's what I do everyday in the gym. Work on new stuff and stay relevant.

When I'm in south Florida I'm training, resting, training. I'm working on my craft out here, very tediously. That's what I come out here for.

I'm not a matchmaker, I don't know the logic behind the decisions they make.

I've said it before, I'm not a matchmaker, I don't call the shots. I just prepare and fight the guys after I sign the contract.

Seven years is a long time, and seven years of fighting the best guys in the best organization in the world, the biggest organization in the world, it hardens you. You don't stay seven years without evolving. It doesn't happen.

That grit of fighting is addictive, I'm scared of it. It's a very weird thing.

My dream is to be the best fighter at 155 pounds in the world.

Fighting is what I do.

My father was a fighter. My grandfather was a fighter. It's just in my blood.

My whole career, the ups, the downs, the victories, the defeats, the lessons I've learned and kept rolling, that's what's made me the fighter I am today.

Any time Nate Diaz fights, I'm tuning in, I promise you.

I want to fight guys I'm excited to watch fight.

I'm not a small guy.

All weight cuts are hard.

Destiny doesn't make mistakes.

The champs are the guys who can do it the best, to lock it in for 25 minutes and do what they plan to do.

I have a pretty high fight IQ.

Just because I haven't fought wrestlers doesn't mean I'm not wrestling in every camp.

I'm not a frontrunner. I'm a complete fighter.

They had to re-shape the head of my femur back round. They had to trim my hip socket up a little bit. I had a lot of extra bone growth just from years of stressing it out. Because of that bone growth, it caused an impingement in my hip, which tore my labrum off the bone.

I just want fights like that. Fights that get me excited. Fights that are going to be exciting.

I'm familiar with adversity.

If I would have thought like fans think, I'd be broke and brain dead and fighting everybody every weekend.

Norman Parke needs to stay off of Twitter before he gets himself in a fight he can't win.

This is a business. I'm a professional athlete. This isn't, 'poke somebody and start a street fight.'

This isn't a Toughman competition; you don't just fight everybody because they want to fight.

Korean Zombie beat me, and I was prepared that night. He beat me, he beat me that night.

You can't just go in and say, 'I'm going to be tougher that you,' you know? Heavy bags are tough, but I've never been beat by one.

You have to be tough. All these guys are tough. But at some point, you have to outsmart and outhink and outplan these top fighters.

I was a born fighter before I got technical, and that's still in me.

I don't usually talk crap about guys.

I need to celebrate life because I'm in a good spot, I work hard, and I am happy with who I am and happy with what I do for a living, and sometimes I just focus and overwhelm myself so much with the fights and getting better, that I just need to slow it down and enjoy life and enjoy training.

My goal is to prosper and be a world champion and make money and retire and say I did it.

I feel like my wrestling and jiu-jitsu is so underrated.

Years and years ago, like in 2006, my wife, I didn't have a car, she would drive me to weigh-ins, we would sleep in broken-down motels and I would fight the next day. Just me and her.

I'm never going to go down to 145 again.

I don't see myself ever going up to 170.

When your body quits on you, it doesn't matter how mentally tough you are.

Nothing in my life was ever easy.

I really work hard to stay in great shape and make weight.

I want a rematch with Cub Swanson, I think I deserve to be 100 percent and fight.