A biography for Al Iaquintahasn’t been written yet.
“The UFC needs a person like me, because I love this sport and Dana - I don't know if he loves this anymore. I think he's just addicted to the spotlight and making it all about him.”
“I'm just too smart and I'm too well-rounded.”
“You want your name on the poster, you want your picture on there. You want to have to do the most media, the most everything. That shows all your hard work is paying off.”
“When I tell people I'm fighting Ross Pearson, they know who he is. So when I get this win, they're gonna know who I am.”
“I'm focused on freaking punching people and taking them down and ground and pound and submission. That's the stuff I'm focused on, my craft.”
“I never really cared about anything in life. It was like once I get the champion thing, everything is gonna work out. Now I gotta kind of be like, I gotta work on some things and if it comes, it comes.”
“There's a reason why guys don't look good against me.”
“To be ranked No. 10 in the world, in anything, you know how to get good at whatever you do. If I put that work ethic toward whatever I'm doing, if it's real estate, I know I'll be successful.”
“I've been in there with the best and I've showed what I can do. Even through my losses.”
“At this point, I should be a physical therapist myself. I think I can do knee surgeries.”
“Fighting brings out people. You can see what people are made of.”
“There's no one that can solve a problem within 15 minutes as good as I can.”
“I would feel very disrespected as a champion if they were putting a belt on someone else in my weight class.”
“Dana White has no power over me. That guy has zero power over me.”
“That's the beauty of fighting sports, the fighters need to go out there without really knowing if they're winning, if they're losing, or if they have to go out there and finish.”
“I want to fight Tony Ferguson. I want to fight Conor McGregor, Dustin Poirier.”
“I used to like the anesthesia. It was like my favorite part of the whole thing, the 10 seconds before you go out. You just wake up. Now, I don't want to be in a hospital or anywhere near surgery or doctors or anything.”
“I fight, a little extra money. That's all it is.”
“I'm a professional athlete, I was just on TV on Fox Sports 1, and $50,000 is what I walk away. Are you kidding me?”
“I used to think you go in, get surgery, and get fixed, and you're good. Doesn't always work like that. It's a big risk to everything.”