I have a lot of respect not only for the fighter but the man Vitor Belfort. I think he has done a lot for the sport, and we all have to respect him.

Sometimes when you chat about something, a few ideas come up, you go this way or that way in training.

My main objective is always the belt.

I've always worked hard and stayed focused.

Every fight is a little bit different.

As you go in there, you keep winning; after you've had a loss or two, people start to humanize you.

I feel like Randy Couture has helped build the history in this sport.

It's an honor to fight someone like Randy Couture.

I tried all my life to be a champion.

We always want the knockout or the submission.

If you want to get to the top, you can't say you won't fight this one or that one. You have to be open to fight the best.

It's important to have the support of your family, but when is time to move away? You have to walk with your own legs one day.

Having your father to help you to get back up is good, but you need to get up by yourself and walk alone. Life goes on.

I loss that fight to Phil Davis, but I'm not convinced on that fight. Because it wasn't fair for me. I'd like to do another fight.

The future belongs to God.

I believe in me.

It's not my style to talk trash to my opponents.

I want to be the middleweight champion.

A fight is a fight, and you never know what is going to happen until you start fighting.

I never underestimate anybody.

Every fight is a new story, a new training camp.

For sure, Jacare would be a great opponent. I have all the respect for him, but I would like a lot to have the opportunity of facing him someday.

Your technique, your drive - that's what you should carry with you.

If you want something, you can get it.

Rafael Carvalho deserves a lot of respect and seriousness in my camp.

I won't cling to the past.

I try to learn from my losses, see how they can help me in the future.

Learning is constant. I learn something new every day.

Every fight has taught me something.

At middleweight, I started to find an ideal weight for me. I face guys my size, my height, and with my physique.

Fighting in Bellator is a dream come true for me.

Every time you step into a different cage, you can feel the difference.

I don't fight without being prepared, even when I lose.

Mousasi is a very tough fighter.

My way of thinking is like that: always positive.

As a professional, I get in a dilemma between sport and entertainment. There's these two sides.

I'm not gonna change my principles. I'm not gonna change anything just to make money.

I'm a professional, and I focus on one fight at a time.

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A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years.

The secret ballot makes a secret government; and a secret government is a secret band of robbers and murderers.

If taxation without consent is robbery, the United States government has never had, has not now, and is never likely to have, a single honest dollar in its treasury. If taxation without consent is not robbery, then any band of robbers have only to declare themselves a government, and all their robberies are legalized.

A man's natural rights are his own, against the whole world; and any infringement of them is equally a crime, whether committed by one man, or by millions; whether committed by one man, calling himself a robber, (or by any other name indicating his true character,) or by millions, calling themselves a government.

It is manifest that the only security against the tyranny of the government lies in forcible resistance to the execution of the injustice; because the injustice will certainly be executed, unless it be forcibly resisted.

It is self-evident that no number of men, by conspiring, and calling themselves a government, can acquire any rights whatever over other men, or other men's property, which they had not before, as individuals.

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