Carlos Condit

“Even when I a kid, a lot of my wrestling practices were agility. My best seasons were the seasons when we would spend 45 minutes or an hour each practice doing agility drills, making you a better athlete. And then you can plug those skills into whatever athletic endeavor you end up pursuing.”

“When I fought GSP and knocked him down I got really excited and punched myself out.”

“I've loved being involved in the sport at the time that I have, and I've gotten to do what I love for a living for a long period of time.”

“Greg Jackson and Mike Winkeljohn are so, so good at what they do in the mixed martial arts game.”

“There are players associations in all the other major sports. If the UFC is going to continue to grow and be legitimate, we have to get together. The fighters have to get together and have some leverage.”

“I love fighting and I love this sport, and as a competitor, I never really wanted to step away. But I have to be practical. I kind of had to think about how long I could continue to do this.”

“In my career, my motivation has ebbed and flowed. Sometimes I was all about it, sometimes I felt really burnt out.”

“The pressure of kind of being one of the top guys for almost a decade, it's been awesome.”

“My cardio, my conditioning, is a weapon.”

“I think in training is where a lot of the injuries occur, or at least start.”

“I've been eight weeks into a fight camp, two weeks out from a fight, having paid coaches, booked plane tickets, and invested quite a bit of money in my camp, only to not be able to fight because my opponent got hurt. Boom. I'm out that money. It sucks.”

“I'm well-rounded.”

“I like to keep things exciting. Every minute of the fight, I'm trying to finish my opponent.”

“I've beaten a lot of guys where I've been the underdog throughout my career. And, I've made a career out of and I've taken a lot of pleasure in proving doubters wrong. And, you do that enough times and you start to believe in your abilities.”

“In the cage, you can't say, 'Oh wait, that's off limits.' There's no timeouts, there's no substitutions and there's no saying my knee is off limits. This is a full contact sport.”

“I'm a hell of a lucky guy.”

“I do think that maybe, sometimes, I get overlooked. I think it's maybe because I don't present the average image of an MMA fighter.”

“I wasn't going to be able to re-grow my ACL back overnight. I was where I was with this and I just had to accept it. I had to stay focused on getting back. Honestly, I kind of felt in a weird way lucky because it was 12 years into my career that this happened.”

“I think some guys are able to take more damage, some guys are more resilient than others.”

“Georges is very good at what he does, but a lot of his fights aren't really very exciting.”