I was tested against the best.

The way I train, the way I spar, I'm out of my comfort zone every single day, and you can see the result in my fights.

Everybody talks. Anthony Pettis talked before the fight. Donald Cerrone talked before the fight. See what happened?

I have to take care of my family, my team, and my legacy.

We have a lot of Brazilians in the United States. It doesn't mean we're traitors to our country.

Brazil is on my side.

Bro, how are you going to tap on the neck, on the choke? Go to sleep, man. Be a man.

I didn't get any crazy sponsors. I don't have any extra sponsors since I got the belt.

I think things will come once I get the respect that I deserve. Keeping my belt for a long time... Things will happen like normal. I can't force those things.

I train to be the champion.

I don't want to lose what I've won.

Now that I've achieved my goal to win the belt, I want to be the best of all times. I want to be remembered as the lightweight with most title defenses.

I train to fight five rounds, but if we can end the fight in the first round, it's even better.

I get paid the same money if I'm fighting on pay-per-view or on Fight Pass, and Fight Pass is just getting started. It's the future. The Internet, many people watch it.

Coming from where I came from, I was born naked with no teeth. Now I have everything.

I think money comes and goes. What comes easy goes easy.

I fight because I like challenges.

I like my life. I like competing, but it's not just because of the money.

It was tough to make weight against Cerrone, and I passed out three times making weight for the Eddie Alvarez fight. One day you get to the limit.

I fought well at 155, but I don't think I ever came close to my best at 155. I think I'll get to my best at 170 pounds.

People treat you one way when you're champion, but when you're not the champion, everything changes. People treat you different.

I think social media is good for promotion, stuff like that, but people are so negative. People are too negative. If you read the comments, it's just too negative.

When you're a fighter, and you're not doing good in your work, that happens - you lost the fight.

People see me because I'm winning my fights. That's how I want people seeing me.

I need talk more, call people out. It's not who I am, but I feel I need to do this more to bring more attention for me.

The whole world has American dreams. This country has people from all parts of the world. We have Irish who live here, we have Brazilians.

We have people around the world who live in the United States, and these people don't deserve to be called traitors.

I'm not a trash talker. I respect my opponents.

I talk the truth. I don't trash talk, I just talk the truth.

In the future, I want to have super-fights.

I think Robbie Lawler is a good name and a fight that interests me.

Everything I want to do in my life, I want to be at the top.

It wasn't easy to get here, and it will not be easy to take my title away from me.

I still have a lot to do, a lot to improve.

If I don't fight McGregor, I still have a good life.

I don't want to fight anybody that just wants to hold you and try and eat the time.

If you look at my record, I have a clean record.

I like to fight, and I think the fans want to see a good fight, too.

I'm the kind of guy who always pushes really hard.

What made me move up to welterweight was all the effort I was doing, to look at my health and have a good life. I wanted to stop sacrificing so much.

If I take two years off, I would want to fight as much as possible.

I don't do fight camps anymore because I live in camp.

When I was 16 years old, I weighed 176 pounds.

I think to get a title shot, you need to have some expressive winnings.

My goal is to always be improving my skills.

I miss submitting people; I have a lot of confidence in my jiu-jitsu.

A lot of fighters come from Brazil. We've been doing this for long, long years.

Cerrone, he's a very good Muay Thai guy, very long.

Man, Ben Henderson, Donald Cerrone... these guys are a different level, man.

I think it's a loser's mentality to get happy with somebody losing.