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“I'm telling you, man, sometimes a coach ruins the athlete.”
“I'm very grateful how the UFC and my management team get together. They've been doing great things together. I think the UFC also appreciates who I am because I'm a composed guy, I'm focused and I deliver.”
“In the future I would like Dricus or Jon Jones or even fighting Oleksandr Usyk in boxing. I see those possibly happening, but it doesn't depend on me. It depends on the UFC.”
“People haven't seen much of my grappling, but I'm a complete fighter.”
“I'm a complete fighter.”
“I had done everything I could and wanted to do in kickboxing. It was toward the end, it was getting difficult to get the fights I wanted and I just felt MMA made sense as the next challenge.”
“I'm the champ. We stay a little bit more quiet.”
“I don't have a favorite fighter, but I respect Jon Jones.”
“I had a bit rough and difficult life.”
“I am at a level in MMA where I can fight anyone.”
“The knockouts I have, people stay in bad shape, need oxygen, wake up the next day.”
“Every fight of mine is a war.”
“When Israel Adesanya joined the UFC, I started taking a close look because I had interest in fighting in MMA.”
“Four years into fighting, I had my whole kickboxing career planned in my mind, and I realized I wouldn't accomplish my goals if I never stopped drinking. That's when I made my mind and quit drinking. I haven't had a drop of alcohol since.”
“I think Blachowicz is more technical. Jamahal is more crazy, hits a bit too open - which is dangerous, but at that same time that's very good for me.”
“If you can have the power to retain the title by submission or knockout, who wouldn't want that?'”
“I am afraid of getting hit. Of being hurt during a fight. And I believe that it helps me to have that fear. That fear, it is my friend.”
“If I go to the gym, I'm training hard.”
“I'm sure I can do a good job in MMA.”
“People don't know the way I train.”