It's always great fighting in front of familiar faces and not having to travel and deal with jet-lag and all of that stuff.

I just love putting on a show for my fans.

Daniel Crawford, who was BAMMA featherweight champion, used to train with me.

Stylistically, every fight in the division is a hard fight. Lyoto Machida is unorthodox, Jon Jones is long and tall with good wrestling, Ryan Bader has good wrestling. You can't pick one and say, 'I want to fight him.'

When you're away from home for a fight camp it's the simple things that you miss the most. For me, that's laying on the sofa with my daughters and spending quality family time and small things like that.

The most important thing is to stay fresh - physically and mentally - and to also avoid injury of course.

I'm a 'come forward' kind of guy, I will never fight any other way and I don't think I could learn anything different either.

To me a fight is a fight, it's not a contest or a martial arts competition, it's a fight.

The fear of losing motivates me, and that's it.

The London fans know what I bring to the table. Destruction.

It's easy to say when you're on the outside and when you're the coach or for people to say, 'Oh, you should have done this, you should have done that.' But when you're in there in front of thousands of people and you get hit and you want to win the fight, it's totally different.

MMA has improved my life leaps and bounds.

As soon as I found MMA, I knew that this is what I wanted to do, and it gave me focus because I was good at it anyway, and it gave me a goal to reach. I kept winning my fights, and it's given me a goal and a career opportunity.

I don't think there's anyone who strikes like me in the world.

I don't care where I am in the rankings or anything like that - I just want a UFC belt.

It's all about experiences and taking positives from each fight, even if it was a loss.

Every fight is a must-win for me.

David Haye was the perfect opponent for me because he was a small heavyweight with a big name and we were about the same size.

I can't think of any heavyweights that would match up well with me. They're all too big.

I'm a knockout artist.

I'm not bothered about where I'm ranked in the world. I'm just worried about fighting the best people in the world and being a natural, original champion.

There's not so many 'big names' in cruiserweight that would interest me.

People have different opinions of your career and how you've played and all that, and they're entitled to their opinions.

People see the scoring, and oftentimes, that's all they think about with me, but I try to get better at all aspects my the game and become a better basketball player.

You've got to kind of speak things into existence if you really want them to happen.

Hopefully people see me as a great person, first of all.

I always look at the bathroom. If you have a nice bathroom in the hotel, then it's a nice hotel. It's all about the shower and the bathroom.

I know I can play in the NBA, and I can be a very good player in the NBA.

I don't let people affect me.

I've had opportunities to go out and play, but sometimes I haven't. It's been a mixture of both.

That's how I see myself, as a guy who can supply offense and help the team.

You can go out and produce and make a name for yourself.

I worked at a pizza shop. My brother's best friend owned it. I did a little bit of everything there, whatever they needed.

The Knicks' practice facility is a great place.

I've seen guys work as hard as I have and don't have the shot I have.

Being in the D-League, I might be able to get into a rhythm and start shooting the ball well and get some confidence and get some reps.

As a competitor, you want to be out there. It's always tough to watch others play and know you've put in the time, you've put in work. But at the same time, you have to support them. You're a teammate, and you have to be the best teammate you can be and go out and continue to better, and hopefully you get an opportunity.

I've had some difficulties, but I've also done some good things on defense. So it's just all about effort... You've got to take it personal and work as hard as you can on that end of the floor.

Defensively, I really feel like I've progressed and gotten better.

The D-League has helped me to get better and develop as a basketball player.

Some people see ESPN. They see the long shots. They see me scoring the basketball, but they don't show often too many assists - and I've been doing that my whole career, being able to get the ball to the guy at the right time.

I never thought that I would ever go over to China for any reason - then to be able to go over there and play basketball, embracing the culture.

I'm just trying to focus on playing my game and playing well, and whatever happens afterwards, we'll see.

I go out there, and I know if I play my game, then I'm going to be all right.

It's always good to be back in Salt Lake City.

Shanghai is an amazing city. The fans were so nice to my family and to myself and just treated us as their own. I'm extremely grateful to the Sharks for that opportunity.

I never thought I'd play basketball in China.

You've just got to keep playing and keep working hard to get where you're supposed to be.

It's tough at times to not play.

That really helps a player, knowing when they're going to go in the game and what they need to do when they get in there, what to expect.