Artem Lobov

“Get a boxer and get him wrestling for a minute or two - the arms get so heavy, filled with blood, they can't even hold them up any more, they can't box.”

“At the end of the day, fans make the show. If there's no one watching, then there's no one paying, then we don't earn any money, then what's the point?”

“In times of war, my brothers never let me down.”

“Guys don't want to take hard fights, they avoid any challenges, they take the easiest fights and then they get rewarded with a UFC contract. That's not right, that should never happen that way.”

“My record, for example, it represents a tough road. It represents a guy that was willing to fight when no one else would.”

“I never pull out of the fights.”

“I truly love fighting, so how can there be pressure for me when I absolutely love it?”

“I feel I have the necessary skills to compete with the best, I wouldn't have even aimed for the UFC if I didn't think I did.”

“With the kind of power that I have - no one hits as hard as I do in the featherweight division.”

“I absolutely love the fight game.”

“I've said it before, me and Conor are very, very good friends, and he's certaintly helped me get into the UFC, you know, it is what it is, it makes no difference.”

“I honestly don't remember ever being hurt by anyone other than Conor. It probably has happened in training or a fight but I don't remember any. The only times I do remember getting hurt is by Conor. I remember most of them and it's happened many, many, many times.”

“Look, I always say this, 99 percent of people in the UFC would be gone if they have made $100 million.”

“I always make sure that I'm good to do business with.”

“UFC, this is the premier organization. This is where the toughest matchups are and this is what I'm always after.”

“I always seek the highest challenge, the biggest challenge.”

“Artur Sowinksi is a fight that I want to put right for a long time - that win was stolen from me. His friend was the promoter, a Polish promoter at the time and he overturned it, but that's a win in my mind - it was a win that was stolen from me.”

“I know there's not a man in the world in any of the striking arts that would just run over me.”

“For me, when someone is able to beat me, that's the guy that I want to spar with.”

“When you fight someone, it's different. It's a lot of conflict that you can have. Once you fought somebody, that's it. There's not much to it anymore. You went in there, you settled it like men, one on one, and that's it. After that, I don't think there's really a point to kind of carry it with you, any of that negativity.”