Sometimes when you get eager, you get sloppy. Sometimes when you get sloppy, you get knocked out.
I really love to help kids that are struggling and going through a tough time, and I want to be a positive light on them.
Nobody expected me to finish Cub Swanson the way I did. When you see something like that, even I say, 'You're finally here. You're not only hanging with the best of the best, you're finishing them.'
I'm the kind of guy who, if you tell me you can't do something, like, 'Brian, you can't do a backflip off that two-floor building,' and I'm going to give it a shot.
What's that song? It says, 'Everything that you do will come back to you in your sweet time?' That's why I still don't relax. Even my coach gets mad at me sometimes. He's like, 'Come on, man - relax.' I go, 'Nah.' I'm always good.
I want to go out and help people and share love where love is needed.
On my block, I had all these guys coming in and out of jail. When I was 13, I was playing outside my house, and one of those guys came across the street and started cussing me out, wanting to fight me. People knew I trained kickboxing and would put the gloves on with my friends, so that made me a target.
I want the real title. I can't express it enough that I want to fight for the real title. The interim title, from what I've seen... people get it, and then they take it away in a month. I just don't want to be that person.
I very strongly dislike fear. I always say fear keeps us from living our lives and doing the things we want to do.
I come from a city where we really didn't have too many role models.
I love being the underdog. I'm cool in my dog house.
I've been doing charity work since I'm 20 years old, and now I want to help kids.
I like super fights. I want super fights. I want guys that I can match up well where people don't know what going to happen.
Pretty much, I was a hometown fighter, and everyone was pulling for me. Now I'm a hometown fighter again. It's a lot of pressure because you don't want to let people down. They're yelling your name and chanting for you.
Two good, large fights a year is good enough for me.
Training full-on year round is great, and I love to stay in shape and always being ready, but I feel sometimes I don't have a life.
All I do is just live in the gym.
As much as I dream, I have nightmares.
I always try not to look too far ahead. I just look far enough to know where I'm going next.
I dropped out or got kicked out of four high schools.
