I'm so bad at baseball, I can't even hit now.
I went and worked at a TV station in Stillwater. I was actually account manager for commercial accounts, selling ad space and everything.
I need to be competing. Coaching is good, but I like to be in the fire.
I had a really dark time after the Olympic Games... But then I said to myself, 'This is a sport that's blessed me with a home, with an education, with some money. I can't hate this sport. This sport took me out of Louisiana. This sport gave me a chance when so many people don't get a chance. And I love this sport.'
If I didn't have the wrestling name that I have, I wouldn't have gotten the financial contract that I got with Strikeforce or the long-term contract or the television contract. That's all because of wrestling.
I know what I've done, and I know who I am.
I don't mind playing spoiler.
Wrestling is a hard sport, but it's only a sport.
My little girl's in Heaven. She's my angel, and I can draw from that.
I've dealt with a lot in my life.
If there's an opportunity for me to compete at something, I'm there.
Who I have fought and how I have fought, it says something about me.
When you look at my record at 10-0 as a professional and look at Jon Jones' record when he was 10-0, who was his toughest guy? Stephan Bonnar, and he did not finish him. I have fought higher-caliber opponents at this stage in my career than Jon did in his at 9-1; His tenth fight was Matt Hammil.
I think Mickey Gall's going to be really good.
I went out there, and I fought Anderson Silva, and you know what? I got a big W, and that's massive for my career going forward.
How can you train if you're constantly worried about getting injured?
Guys play basketball and get hurt, and that's probably the easiest sport on the planet. We're actually fighting every day. We're wrestling; we're grappling.
People always get confused. They talk about coaches. The reality is, these coaches and managers that everybody thinks are in so much control, they work for us. They're our employees.
It's unfair to think that we can do what we do with the intensity that we do it and expect injuries to not happen.
I think I'm as good if not better than everyone else.
