People like to call themselves fans of fighting and fans of the sport, but if you're a fan of fighting, how can you not like watching Demetrious Johnson? He's the best at it. He's the pound-for-pound best fighter in the world. Why wouldn't you enjoy watching that guy perform? He does a phenomenal job every time he's in there.
We've seen smaller guys in main event fights, and they do well. It just takes the right combination of people I think. I think Dominick Cruz v. T.J. Dillashaw could have main-evented a PPV and done pretty good.
You have to be very vocal about being willing to fight anyone.
Anthony Johnson hits harder than any other person, no doubt. Every time he hit me, it made me kind of, like, fly all over the place. He was trying to take my head off.
Dan Henderson, even when you're close and he hits you from very, very close, you can feel how heavy his hands are. His hands are pretty powerful.
You've got to be all-in on this sport; you can't be one foot out the door.
I think after I beat Ryan Bader, he should have to go get beat up by Anthony Johnson for being so disrespectful to Anthony Johnson.
I'm not stuck in Strikeforce. I'm happy to be with them. It's where I started, and they've been great to me.
Reach, and all that other stuff, doesn't play as big a part in MMA as it does in boxing. Guys don't really fight with their length all that much, because they have to worry about the takedown or kicks. They have to worry about so many other things that they can't just fight real tall.
I've always had a chip on my shoulder. It kind of drives me. It's something that allows me to train harder, train longer, work better.
There are ways to win fights, and sometimes you don't always choose the easiest way to win a fight.
Just being in the gym every day with someone with goals in common is special.
When I came into the gym, I wasn't just some guy. I was a two-time Olympian.
Food doesn't necessarily have to suck in order to be healthy. It doesn't have to be terrible to be healthy anymore.
People in Toronto love to watch fights.
My daughter passed away in 2003.
I'm not nervous standing with anyone.
In my opinion, whenever you get two guys who want to fight each and two guys who want to be in a good fight, you let them fight.
When I watch Rumble Johnson, he's a bully. He bullies guys. He makes them go backward, and he traps them. I'm not going to allow that. If he tries to bully me, I'll stand right in front of him, and if he hits me, I'll hit him right back. And then we'll see how the bully handles it when nobody is going to run away from him.
