I wrestled Jordan Burroughs two times - Jordan Burroughs had a hell of a time trying to take me down. I stopped his double leg numerous times. And he also, probably, fractured my sternum - from me trying to stop him.

I could lose and it could be the best fight ever, it still does great things for me.

Working in a juvenile detention center, being a probation officer for at-risk youths, I'll do something like that. Something nice and stable.

Humans recognize effort, and that's what I do. I give max effort.

I'm not an idiot.

I just like punching loudmouths in the face.

It's life or death for me every single time I step in the cage.

I'll worry about things I can control.

This is entertainment business and I fight for money.

A lot of people say I'm reckless and I take too many shots. I take shots on the forehead. There's nothing wrong with that. It puts me in punching range.

I happen to have a college education and I never planned on being a fighter.

You could be the best in the world, but it doesn't matter. It's four-ounce gloves. I've been dropped in practice with a knee to the body. I take a good knee to the body and break my ribs in the fight, I lost. I mean, it's a fight.

I don't want to fight guys ranked behind me.

I wish I was fighting Jason High in his hometown. I would put him to sleep in front of all his fans. He's mainly a wrestler, but I'm an All-American wrestler. So I'm really not worried about Jason High.

This is a making-money business, and the only way to make money is knocking people out. Lying on someone? That's pathetic to me. You gotta drop a bomb.

Me and my brother, as anybody who's a twin will tell you... it's a competitive relationship. Ours is really competitive.

My pressure is second to none and my timing and attitude are second to none, and that's what I want to be recognized for; not for being undefeated, because what does that mean? That just means you won. And I want to known for my style and the way that I fight, the timing that I bring and the fact that I rely on my reactions, stuff like that.

I'm not here to take damage. I don't want to not be able to talk. Every single time I fight, I know that... this could be the last time that you're able to do this, the last time you're able to talk.

I'm hoping to earn enough to buy a few properties, that way I can make money that way and I want to do social work.

At the end of the day, it's an unforgiving sport.

Whoever they send me a contract for, I'll fight him.

In hindsight, I'd love to be undefeated still, but that's not what this sport is.

I've never been in a street fight before, like one-on-one.

When I take a right hand, I roll with it. I don't absorb every single bit of the punch. There's different ways to alleviate some of the force of a punch besides just getting out of the way. When I take it, it's on my gloves.

I get paid by the fight, not by the minute.

The way you stop a takedown in wrestling is to meet force with force. You don't try to go away.

I want the biggest fights possible.

When I lose, I'll get knocked out. It won't be because I got outworked or outskilled or anything like that.

I'm trying to live until I'm at least 65 or 70, so I might as well try and stay healthy until at least that long.

My only goal ever in a fight was to go in there and create chaos. Now, I want to control the chaos that hate's created. I want to fight in the right spots.

God, it's such an unforgiving sport.

I'm not larger than life, my personality is not larger than life, I promise you. But when I fight I am larger than life, I promise you that.

I want to fight Khabib. I think I'm one of the biggest threats to his title.

What I do is not for the faint of heart, but I'm a different breed.

Melvin Guillard went to a split decision with me, he left the third round in a wheelchair. He did not walk to the back - he left in a wheelchair.

I wanted to take the short road to the top, and I think I'm doing that.

I've been saying I'm the best in the world for a long time.

I should never be trying to avoid something in a fight, especially something I'm good at.

My timing and pressure is the definition of MMA.

You will regret not seeing me fight live.

I owe it to myself to not sell myself short by taking a pay cut just to go to another organization.

When I sat down and knew I was going to go to the UFC, I thought of Edson Barboza and I almost had a panic attack. And then right away I called my manager Ali Abdel-Aziz. I said, 'Ali, that's the fight I want.' I think it's the worst fight in the lightweight division for me, the scariest.

When you win, you get to pick someone in front of you to fight.

I respect the boss.

I think Khabib is going to take him down immediately, or create some kind of scramble immediately. I don't think Poirier stops his takedowns.

I watched the UFC way back in the day, before there were time limits. I always knew it's what I wanted to do some day.

I've wanted to - and have been - testing myself against the best guys in the world.

I'm not saying I'd walk through everybody. There's some great fights for me, though, and I'd put on a hell of a show with a lot of the fighters in the top 10. My pressure is second to none, and a lot of them don't have any way to prepare for what I'm going to be bring.

I had no idea if I could fight when I first started. My first four amateur fights, I had never even been punched in the face or trained of any kind.

Natural human instinct, reaction, whatever, is if you're perfect, you're going to try to skate by and get by, get away with things the easiest way possible.