Win or lose, just stay calm.
The best feeling in the world is a hard workout, a shower, and a protein shake.
I wish you could see a new Cro Cop, 15 years younger. I wish it was possible.
Training is not the key. Head is the key. For me, it's head. How aggressive you will be. Who will attack first? But you need to be good in your head, and there will be no problem.
I might be the first fighter who has ever been suspended after retirement.
People ask me if I'm going to open a school. Why not? I think I should. Maybe not a typical school where anyone can come but with young fighters definitely one day. I don't have the nerves for amateurs.
I've heard that I could be facing Randy Couture. That would a great.
First I'm a sportsman and then a politician.
I think the best thing to say is that I was born to fight.
K-1 is the sport where I started. This is my first love, and I find K-1 more attractive and more suitable for our Croatian fans than MMA.
I won a lot of money in UFC. I earned that money. The money wasn't given to me as a present. I earned every dollar of it.
Conditioning is the most important thing in MMA.
I'd most prefer to be a free agent and fight up to six times a year, but that is unlikely.
This fire in me will last forever.
Everything was good when I was in Japan, and then, unfortunately, the injuries started.
Training, and every morning I have to take my dogs out into the forest. That's all I'm doing. I'm staying out of everything else. All other things that can take out my concentration and my energy from the training.
When I came to UFC, I was treated like a king.
I'm not the kind of fighter who just hates each other before the fight. I can talk to you until one minute before the fight, and then I will take your head off if I can.
It was a mistake of mine to train like that, with friends, at home. It was a handicap I should not have given myself. In Croatia, we do not have big camps like in other countries, but I was not willing to go away to train.
Of course I will submit if I have a chance, but I always prefer to finish a fight in a stand-up position.
