Nate Diaz
Nate Diaz

I'm trying to stay focused on what I'm doing. I don't want a whole lot of things going on - people to call back, or text messages or whatever. I chill out, relax a little bit, and then I don't have those issues.

Nate Diaz
Nate Diaz

I walk around - people know who I am. I've got friends. I can make ends meet. I grew up around people who have been hustling from the start, so I think I've got a bright little future ahead of me - especially if I don't fight. Why would I want to go out there and fight with somebody, get my face punched and kicked. It's not my idea of a good time.

Nate Diaz
Nate Diaz

If you don't find time to meditate and get all that negative out, and if you don't have the right people being positive around you, this is a very scary job to have if you don't learn how to control your fear.

Nate Diaz
Nate Diaz

I never did steroids in my life. I know all the fighters; they are all on steroids.

Nate Diaz
Nate Diaz

Money talks. I want the biggest fight. Whoever I've got to fight - the biggest show, biggest payday - that's what I want.

Nate Diaz
Nate Diaz

I'm fighting hard; I'm training hard. I'm still walking over people and stepping over people to get where I'm going, and I would really like to give back, especially to my mom, who was there for me when I was a kid.

Nate Diaz
Nate Diaz

I'm the only person in this sport, for the most part, that ain't on steroids. Now there's new rules in effect, yeah, you've got guys not on steroids now, but they used to be. They've always been on steroids.

Nate Diaz
Nate Diaz

Once I turned pro, I was like,' OK, this is not fun and games now. This is me. I'm going to come, and I work on karma. I'm not going to go after somebody if I don't have a reason behind it, so as soon as there is some sort of a reason for me to do something that I need to do, then I'll do it.'

Nate Diaz
Nate Diaz

It's just kinda irritating to me that we're awarding people in mixed martial arts for trying to move away and not finish the fight.

Nate Diaz
Nate Diaz

I try to cancel out every possibility of losing the fight, and this runs through my head all day long. I'm seeing myself become smashed in the face, cut, or being submitted or being knocked out in so many different ways all day long.

Nate Diaz
Nate Diaz

If I had been thinking business since I was 21, I'd be a rich man right now.

Nate Diaz
Nate Diaz

People like to talk a lot about me, about how I have anxiety or social disorders. I'll admit to anxiety, but it has nothing to do with media or being in front of a camera or being around people. It has to do with dealing with the sparring that I'm going to have or the workouts that I'm going to have from day to day.

Nate Diaz
Nate Diaz

I win by submissions, knockouts. There's guys ranked above me, but no one's interested in seeing them fight. They want to see me fight.

Nate Diaz
Nate Diaz

I don't see a superstar out there. I don't see Georges St-Pierre coming back.

Nate Diaz
Nate Diaz

Every fight, I'm fighting blind opponents. I don't know who it's going to be, who I'm fighting, if I'm really fighting them.

Nate Diaz
Nate Diaz

I don't come and fight for fun. I don't do that. I don't like to hurt people for fun.

Nate Diaz
Nate Diaz

I've lost fights before where I'm landing more punches and I'm moving away from the guy. So, the way that they score things at the end doesn't seem very consistent to me.

Nate Diaz
Nate Diaz

I always took a fight; I always took everybody. I fought everybody.

Nate Diaz
Nate Diaz

It cost me a lot of money to have a vacation, basically. It's nice to step back and see there's more to life.

Nate Diaz
Nate Diaz

If anybody's getting a shot, somebody's getting a shot against me because I'm the guy to beat.