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“Maybe one day when I'm retired, I can turn around and tell you, 'Hey, I was really good at that. Maybe I was the best.'”
“Basically, sometimes a reporter will ask a question, and I feel the answers only matter when the questions are relevant.”
“I trained together with Jacare for a long time.”
“The thing I always demand is respect. I respect everybody and have a history in the sport, and I believe people need to respect me.”
“Nowadays, it's so silly to not express your feelings, as long as you respect peoples' spaces and respect their limits. You have to live your life in peace, and no one has anything to do with that.”
“I don't have a problem putting on or cutting weight. I would adapt my training if I'm training for a Light Heavyweight fight by using different techniques and by wearing a weight vest to get used to the extra fighting weight.”
“Sometimes people think I'm gay. A lot of people have asked me if I'm gay. I answer, 'Look, not to my knowledge. But I'm still young, it could be that in the future, I'll find out that I'm gay.'”
“I go inside the Octagon for fight. I don't joke, because it's danger.”
“I would love to fight my clone.”
“In my opinion, B. J. Penn is No. 1.”
“A lot of people thought I was gay.”
“The moment when I broke my leg, when I realized my leg was broken, I thought my career was over.”
“I always have to be me.”
“The fight's the fight.”
“There are many great fighters in the UFC; some of my favorites are Rodrigo Nogueira, Lyoto Machida, and B. J. Penn, but aside from these guys, the UFC has many great fighters in every division.”
“What motivates me is to be able to do what I love to do, which is to fight.”
“The only problem with Pride was guys would try to slip through the ropes to escape. But other than that, I love Pride rules.”
“Definitely I feel my kids played a big role in why I was so successful in fighting.”
“I will be a complete man, a complete athlete, with a fight with Roy Jones Jr.”
“There's no such thing as holding back. I want to finish as soon as possible. The only time I did it was because he was a friend of mine. It was against Thales Leites. We went until the last round because he's a friend of mine, and I respect him.”