We bought a dog, and we financed it - a $1,400 dog. We had no money, so me and my wife had to put our names together with our credit just to finance a dog.
I'll never underestimate 'GSP.'
I feel like anyone at middleweight, when I have a full training camp, I'm going to go out there and finish them. That's my mentality.
Winning the middleweight title was an amazing feeling.
If you get into the habit of cutting corners, they start to add up.
I try to have the same mindset in my practices as I would for my fights.
I put a lot of pressure on myself to be the best.
There's always going to be people talking so you just have to focus everyday and be the best fighter you can be in the Octagon on the day of the fight.
I'm open-minded and never think I know everything. I actually feel like I know nothing, and that allows me to learn on a different level.
It's an entertainment sport, and we go out to entertain the fans, but at the end of the day, what really matters is your influence on others.
It's a very tough sport. It's a fickle sport. The fans are definitely tough. But it's also kind of motivating.
A lot of my career I'm out of the gym, I'm injured and I'm blown up.
I feel like smaller countries, other countries, they cheer, they support their people no matter what. We need to get a little bit more supportive of our people.
I've fought all these top Brazilians. They're all supporting their people, Anderson Silva, they're supporting him. Lyoto Machida, they're all supporting him. I didn't have the full support of America. Not everyone American was rooting for me because I'm from America. If they were rooting for me, it's because they were a fan of me.
I want to fight the best possible people.
I want to have the biggest challenges in front of me and conquer them. That's why I wanted to fight Anderson Silva when nobody else wanted to fight him.
I want to beat people who people think I can't beat.
I want a rematch with Mousasi more than anything.
You don't want to fix things that aren't broken, so that kind of stops you from make changes.
I grew up getting bullied and fighting a lot.
