I'll worry about things I can control.
What I do is not for the faint of heart, but I'm a different breed.
The way you stop a takedown in wrestling is to meet force with force. You don't try to go away.
This is a making-money business, and the only way to make money is knocking people out. Lying on someone? That's pathetic to me. You gotta drop a bomb.
I wanted to take the short road to the top, and I think I'm doing that.
I respect the boss.
I've been telling people I need to start smiling to my opponents and shaking hands and just being nice, so then when the bell rings, I catch them off-guard, because I used to catch people off-guard, but everyone's ready now.
Whoever they send me a contract for, I'll fight him.
I owe it to myself to not sell myself short by taking a pay cut just to go to another organization.
Melvin Guillard went to a split decision with me, he left the third round in a wheelchair. He did not walk to the back - he left in a wheelchair.
Natural human instinct, reaction, whatever, is if you're perfect, you're going to try to skate by and get by, get away with things the easiest way possible.
I know plenty of wrestlers who are 15-0 and going nowhere.
When you win, you get to pick someone in front of you to fight.
I had no idea if I could fight when I first started. My first four amateur fights, I had never even been punched in the face or trained of any kind.
I've wanted to - and have been - testing myself against the best guys in the world.
I don't want to fight guys ranked behind me.
I'm not saying I'd walk through everybody. There's some great fights for me, though, and I'd put on a hell of a show with a lot of the fighters in the top 10. My pressure is second to none, and a lot of them don't have any way to prepare for what I'm going to be bring.
I think Khabib is going to take him down immediately, or create some kind of scramble immediately. I don't think Poirier stops his takedowns.
I watch a little bit of tape to pick up small stuff, but I don't try to pick apart my opponent's game plan. I'm going to keep coming forward. I don't ever take a step backward. I get hit, and I'm right back into range.
My timing and pressure is the definition of MMA.
