There's no honor in faking an injury. There is no integrity, because you are lying about it.
Obviously, everyone knows it is hard to hang it up, but I'm definitely going to try and do it the right way and not like how combat athletes have done and hold on too long for every last fleeting moment. I don't want to be one of those people.
When I came through the ranks in wrestling - in high school and college - those systems have been in place for 100 years, and they're fairly standard training across the board for all the colleges.
I don't like Jay Hieron very much. He just bothers me, the way he talks, and he thinks very highly of himself.
Dana White ain't going to take care of you the second after you can't make him a whole bunch of money.
I'm not really a soccer fan. I understand they have skill and all that running up and down the pitch and what not.
You need to take care of yourself first, and you can't think of others quite as much if you want to be a successful competitor.
Colby Covington is an idiot. He is so stupid.
Wrestling is a worldwide sport. It's totally international.
I think every promoter's job is to pump their athletes up. Like, you see, Dana White did it all the time with branding people: all of a sudden, they're the best thing since sliced bread, just because that's the promoter's job.
A Division I college wrestling team has so many guys at such a high level it'd be like having every single guy in the gym being a top 10 UFC guy, and that's who you're competing against every single day. Most everyone has been wrestling since they were 5 years old. It's been their dream to wrestle in college. There's such a high level of intensity.
If you're competing right, if you're doing it right, competition should be a very selfish pursuit.
I wasn't granted the opportunity to fight some of the best guys in the world. And that was something that was not on my end by any sense of the imagination.
Andrey Koreshkov is not well-rounded. He's been taken down and mounted and has his back taken by Lyman Good, which tells me he's a terrible grappler. He isn't well rounded. He's a good striker, but that's it.
I fight with good strikers every day.
I'm going to win a gold medal.
A lot of wrestling interviews are boring, plain and simple. They don't say anything you never heard before. Your basic wrestling interview is, you ask me how am I going to do, and I say, 'I'm going to do my best. I'm going to wrestle hard.'
I don't like all the cheating that's going in mixed martial arts. I don't know what percentage of high-level fighters do it, but I think it would be a significant amount.
As long as I'm speaking the truth, I'm going to be OK with what I'm saying. That's kind of how I've lived my whole life.
I've never feared anyone or worried what they said as long as what I'm telling is the truth, and I'm not telling lies about people.
