I don't ask to fight anybody. All I ask is to fight the best fighters in the world.

Coming from a standing background in striking, I couldn't catch up to the guys with 20-plus years of training on the ground. I had to learn submissions. I found out it wasn't an easy road. I had six losses in a row, but I still felt I was the best fighter in the world.

Most of the neighbours didn't like our parents, and they particularly gave Dad a very wide berth. We kids didn't have that luxury.

Mentally, I could fight forever. I feel I'm the best fighter on the planet. My mind says I can fight forever, but physically, I won't be able to do it.

I've been training jiu-jitsu for a while. It just didn't really click in my brain. Maybe sometimes I get a bit lazy. By the time I realize I'm in trouble, I'm already caught. You can't really think about it. You've got to just react as it happens.

All I've ever said I need is an opportunity. Give me a chance, and I'll take it with both hands and run with it.

Anyone who knows me knows how sharp my mind is. I speak at a thousand miles an hour. I'll hold a discussion or a debate with anyone.

I'm knocking fools out. I'm beating guys because that's what I was born to do.

It's always discouraging to lose. You look at it and think, 'Man, what's going on?' It's always discouraging. But I'm a fighter. I don't like to quit.

Yes, I was a bully. But the scrapping on the streets was my way of dealing with the anger I felt towards my parents.

I have, like, 12 screws in my hand.

In the end, I think everyone should be treated fairly.

A loss is just a loss. You get up again, dust yourself off, go at it again regardless of the circumstances. That's the way I look at it.

If I get the boot out of the UFC, I'll still continue to fight.

Knocking someone out cold means you just caught them, that's all.

Whenever I start something, I try to finish it.

If you don't like to be hit, you're in the wrong sport.

I'd like to fight and get close to that title shot - that's all I'm interested in. My whole purpose is to fight for the world title.

My whole career's been an underdog's.

I've built a career in one of the toughest, most ruthless industries in the world. You can't do that unless you're completely with it.

Every fight could be my last.

What my thing is, I tell most of the time the truth, and sometimes it's good for me, sometimes it's bad. But, it's true.

Sometimes I don't sleep well.

At the end of the day, none of us are really promised tomorrow anyway.

I was K-1 world champion.

I never turned down any fight. I'm always up for the opportunity.

I'm always going to be a New Zealand fighter. I'm a Kiwi, of course, and I've still got my New Zealand passport.

You can hear me starting to stutter and slur my words.

I've done it my whole life: as a kid, when people made fun of you, I put positive stuff in there to keep me going.

I love fighting.

I've still got my senses about me, and I know what's right and wrong, which is the main thing.

I won the world title in K-1 as a nobody.

You've got Jon Jones, for instance. That guy is the best, one of the best fighters in the world, but he's a cheater.

Every loss I take, I've accepted, and I move on.

I got injuries already from fighting from guys that have been cheating. And you're never the same when you get injured like that. I mean, look at my hand. It's broken, it's got 16 screws in it. I'm not as strong in this hand. It just affects you, especially this body being my livelihood.

I'm not gonna waste my money watching two cheaters fight. Why would I? They're cheaters, in the end. That's basically all they are. They should get nothing.

For me, with fighting, I'm not going to have any regrets. I'm throwing down to the very end.

Everyone wants to be UFC champion, and that's my goal and my dream.

Knowing and assuming are two different things.

I never lose a rematch.

My memory is not that good anymore.

I do watch some of my losses, but it just makes me think, 'Well, you know, should have done this; could have done that.' But that's why I don't like watching it. It's a shoulda/coulda/woulda thing.

I'm never confident about anything, especially with law.

They can be King Kong, Godzilla, or whatever - I don't care what they have. Once you get a punch in the face or a knee in the head, all of those skills are gone.

At the end of the day, I'm one of the greatest fighters on the planet.

I'm not a liar. I'm a pretty straight up person.

Everyone's a world class ground fighter until they get a punch to the face.

There is nothing wrong with my health. Who doesn't forget things from time-to-time? Who out there has never stuttered or slurred a word at some point?

My brain is fine.

My old man was ruthless. He terrorised us.