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“Even just my basics are so effective against a guy like Max Holloway.”
“If there's one thing I'd say to anyone out there, is that if you're in this game, it's a rollercoaster. There's a lot of ups and downs.”
“My first four fights in amateur at middleweight, and the first four professional were at welterweight. And I just kind of went down from there.”
“My last year of football I started having a couple of MMA fights, and bringing the weight down. It started in the pre-season of football, just to keep fit, and I did really well.”
“Fighters now, they think you have to trash talk to be marketable. Yet so much of what they're saying, it bores me.”
“I won't say too much but Conor McGregor, he likes to set a lot of traps. But they're things I would never get caught up in. The guy isn't exactly known for his cardio either, so I'd crumble him. Make it look easy.”
“With all my fights, my style is to pretty much put a beating on. I don't exactly like hurting people, but unfortunately that's what we need to do in this game to win.”
“I want to take on fighters like Jeremy Stephens, Andre Fili... get ourselves into the Octagon and see if these guys can bully me.”
“I ain't scared of nobody.”
“You know, people are always asking, 'What's your brand?' and, 'What are you all about?' Then you get other people saying, 'You need to do what Connor McGregor does.' But that's not me. That's not who I am. I'm not going to talk trash and build off the bad boy image.”
“Khabib is one of the GOATs as well. Nothing but respect for the dude. But I'm very, very hard to hold down.”
“I didn't think I could make the NRL, but I was confident in myself that I could make the UFC.”
“I've got all the tools to make it hard for anyone, especially someone that's a division lower than me.”
“When I'm training; I'm prepared for anything.”
“It's always an unreal feeling to get the win, but to get it in the UFC - especially on my debut - it was amazing.”
“I'm always my hardest critic.”
“I've obviously got the brains. I've got the cardio.”
“You know, martial arts is all about respect and discipline and it's always been about that. But again, people are starting to forget that, people are missing that, and this is where I believe I can help and it's good for our sport.”
“There are no excuses in fighting. You can be playing a team sport and have a good game, and you can lose. In fighting, it's all on me. If I go out there and lose, then it's my fault. I like that.”