It's like, hey, I've done what I could do, I've accomplished a lot, and now this - especially with wrestling - if this next generation wants to pass me up, great job. Good for them.
A male athlete's peak, I believe, should be somewhere between 26 and 30.
Man, I competed 40 times in three months when I was wrestling, my whole life.
I love running my business, and I love wrestling. I love helping kids.
I'm just a straightforward kind of dude.
I don't try to hide my feelings or what I think.
There are conferences every year where all the major coaches get together, and they talk about the issues in wrestling, what's going to happen. There's a major governing body, U.S.A. Wrestling, which oversees a lot of the issues. The organization is there in wrestling to make a very well-balanced, organized system.
In MMA, all of these coaches are doing their best.
I don't give a damn about my record.
I want to go and fight the best guys in the world and show people I'm the best. And hey, if something doesn't go my way - I don't think that's gonna happen. I realize that's a possibility in competition, and that's what happens.
My two things I always said is, No. 1, I'd be retired by the time I had my first kid, and No. 2, I'd be retired by the time I was 30.
I'm open to any welterweight on Planet Earth.
I'm open to a super fight.
I'll sell a million pay-per-views if you're smart enough to market me the right way.
If you can't say where you're going, you're not going to get there. And I've known all along where I'm going, and sometimes the road takes a few curves that you didn't see, but you've got to stay the path.
I have a really hard time with people telling me what to do.
Every single time you compete, I don't care what it is, you want to perform the best you can, and I feel like I'm doing that.
You know what, the thing about Bellator was, I beat everyone they had.
When you're competing, you need to be selfish. You need to think of yourself first.
If you look across my career, whether it be mixed martial arts or wrestling, it's very, very, very rare that I lose to someone that I'm not supposed to.
