I'm like a tree. My leaves might change color, but my roots are the same.
All I can control is myself and just keep having a positive attitude.
You just keep a positive attitude no matter what comes in your way - challenges, roadblocks - don't let it faze you, and you can overcome anything.
All the scars on my body, all the bumps and bruises, all the muscles - that is a story of everything I have done. And it's not just my story. My ancestors who came before me gave me this vessel to sculpt and mold.
I have overcome some demons in my path.
I learned that love is a much more sustainable energy to draw on than hate.
There's pros and cons to everything, and I choose to look at the positives.
I'm successful every day because I look in the mirror, and I'm happy with who I am.
Oh, man - I don't have just one favorite fighter, but I draw from many different aspects of each fighter. But I will say, just going back in the history of the UFC, just kind of trying to learn from each fighter, I've been looking at Brock Lesnar, all the things he did for the UFC back in the day, and his attitude and things like that.
I'm just a very impatient person. It's always something that I'm working on, and just staying interested in the fight game is the biggest challenge for me. As long as I'm interested and I have an incentive to stay interested, then I'm unbeatable.
There's a process to everything. If you fast track or make shortcuts in any way, and you get too much of one thing, you're just out of balance.
Me being the best in the world, it doesn't mean that much to me if I'm not a good person at the end of the day, if I'm not setting a good example for other people to be better to each other.
I love to learn, and that's the really cool thing about martial arts - you're always learning new things.
I didn't need the belt to validate me.
When they asked us what we wanted to be when we grow up, in kindergarten, I always said I wanted to be a farmer.
It takes a lot of courage in that cage no matter who you are.
There's a lot around us that we can't control, but my body, my mind, and my soul are pretty much the only things that I can.
Fighting causes you to face life head on, because you could end up seriously getting hurt, and you could hurt somebody else. It causes both people to face the reality that we are fragile beings, but it doesn't mean we can't enjoy ourselves in the process and punch each other in the face and have a good time.
There are so many variables that go into a fight, you shouldn't waste your time worrying about the other fighters.
Mixed martial arts - there's just been a lot of trash talking and things like that. People, I feel like, aren't really being true to themselves or being honest. I don't know, maybe that's what they feel they need to do to entertain things.
