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“My BJJ works very well.”
“I always keep training like an athlete. It's a lifestyle. I love that.”
“I've had a couple great moments in my career, I beat Cro Cop, I won the Pride belt.”
“Distance is everything, in a fight. When you lose your distance, you lose your timing.”
“I know I won't fight forever.”
“I like the ground game a lot.”
“In Miami, you can walk in the street and see people. It's like Brazil.”
“When you're fighting five rounds, I know I gotta move a lot.”
“I implanted an intraocular contact lens, and if you poke me in the eye really hard it moves. Imagine how many punches I took... I had to put it back in place all the time.”
“It's always great to fight in Brazil, especially northeast Brazil. There are a lot of tough people here. It's a tough part of the country, to fight here is amazing for me.”
“Ortiz, Wanderlei and Fedor were top fighters for a reason.”
“Eleven months off, I don't like that. It makes you get out of shape.”
“Sometimes I let my opponent hit me. Not because I like it. To get him tired.”
“If I'm not showing well or I'm not motivated, there is no way I can be fighting anymore.”
“I want to fight Top 10 guys.”
“As a fighter you got to be 100 percent.”
“When I get hurt, I fix it and go back fighting.”
“Anderson knows how to play the trash talking game.”
“Nothing compares to when you are in coma and you hear voices and think you are dying. Then you come out of the coma and hear more voices saying you will not walk, not play sports, not be normal. And all the time your mind is fighting back saying, you will be strong, you will fight.”
“I can say that in our gym, 'Toquinho' has never hurt anyone. He is a good person, excellent company and a man with a great character. I believe that he has never thought of doing anything evil to any opponent because this isn't his conduct.”