It's a really complicated road if you're an MMA fighter.

I don't like that I'm made out to be this evil person, who needs to be shot down and conquered.

Sometimes you win some, sometimes you lose some, sometimes you can't be at 100 percent.

I do what I've got to do to survive, to keep my teeth in my head, and my head on my shoulders. I apologize to whoever can't put that together and understand that.

That's a disgusting thought to have to fight my brother. I don't even appreciate being asked about that.

I am a fighter. It's what I am.

For the most part, since the time I was in EliteXC fighting, maybe there were one or two fights here and there that they had me to win, but for the most part I've been an underdog. I'm not a kickboxer so I'm going to lose to a kickboxer. I'm not a wrestler, my wrestling sucks, so I'm going to lose to a wrestler.

I'm not going backwards in this sport ever, especially in pay. Why would I?

My mom and dad taught me nothing but ABCs.

People like to talk a lot about me, about how I have anxiety or social disorders. I'll admit to anxiety, but it has nothing to do with media or being in front of a camera or being around people. It has to do with dealing with the sparring that I'm going to have or the workouts that I'm going to have from day to day.

You don't always come off the way that you want to or look the way you want to. I go out there and just act up and become the evil villain, and I'm calling guys out and stuff. It seems to have worked. I'm getting the fights I want.

I live a fight life, I can do what I want to win a fight.

I'm not hard to find. I'm on Snapchat and Instagram every day.

Give me some real chocolate. Real fighters eat real chocolate.

You can't lie to the fans. They know what they want to see.

I had my mom drive me to practice everywhere. I'm really grateful I had her.

I just never try to beat somebody on the scorecards. It's never happened. It's not in me, I think.

A lot of guys have to worry about what their wives and kids think, I don't.

I don't have to worry about being a good role model.

Have you ever seen me knock somebody out and make a big scene? Hell no.

Stylistically, though, I've always liked Carlos Condit, because he at least amounted to at least the level of doing what I do. I mean, but I think he stands a little upright.

I did aikido when I was four years old.

I don't care about the Strikeforce belt.

You see me. What you see is what you get. You get real martial arts, you get real fighting, you get a real warrior mentality. Some people aren't mature enough to handle it.

I'm not no chump.

What I do is, I fight.

I'm ready to fight anybody.

I'll fight anywhere.

I was never, like, picking on people or anything like that. I was more the other way around. I was a little insecure, I was broke.

I'm not in love with fighting. I never was.

I was always throwing a fit about it, like somebody I was fighting had their hair painted and I would be like, it's not enough that this guy has to win a fight against me, but he's gotta do it with his hair being on blast, like big mohawk. Just a wild man.

Sometimes I'm like, man, I wish I'd just fall off, so people stop talking about me.

I like the idea of being able to fight my way out of something.

I don't want to say I was a big Shinya Aoki fan, but it's just that I felt like he got out and was able to do a lot of the tricks that I like to do before I was able to do them. I guess you can say, a little bit jealous in a way that he was making that sort of show before I was.

As far as MMA, I want to say there's maybe five guys that do jiu-jitsu that have an actual level of understanding when it comes to boxing.

I enjoy fighting here in Japan under the regular Dream/Pride rules with the ring and the whole rules criteria.

I have a cage at home, I have a cage at all the gyms I train.

I think for hundreds of years or for a much longer time, people have been fighting, professional athletes have been fighting in a ring. So it's just the way it should be. There's no sense in making it a cage.

I'm scared of any fighter I've ever fought because they are some dangerous people to be dealing with.

I have Georges St-Pierre out here telling me 'you really think I'm afraid of you, man?' and I'm like you should be, bro. You should be scared out of your mind. I'll tell you what, I'm scared of him.

I've lost fights before where I'm landing more punches and I'm moving away from the guy. So, the way that they score things at the end doesn't seem very consistent to me.

I do get paid well as an MMA fighter, but this isn't boxing and I feel like we should get paid like this is boxing.

I will tell you right now, I want to fight the No. 1 fighter in the world. I always said that I want to fight the No. 1 fighter.

I want to go against the best fighters. That's why I'm always calling out Georges St-Pierre.

I love jiu-jitsu, and I love my team.

I just want to display my skills to the world because I can do it all.

I've been watching Frank Shamrock fight since the beginning.

I'm gonna talk my talk, I'm gonna walk my walk.

I don't know how they judge fights sometimes.

Every other fighter has a life on the side. I've never had another job.