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“I'm not going to sidestep anybody, I'm not going to back down from anybody at any weight, and most importantly, I'm not going to pick on a guy who is weaker.”
“I don't want to be an also-ran.”
“Fighting is an expression. It's a form of speech, and that's why they call it martial arts. It's an art.”
“Jon Jones' skill set is unique. Jon Jones goes out there and does video game moves that the announcers can't even call because they've never seen them before.”
“Accosting somebody in public can be regrettable. Accosting a gangster can be hazardous.”
“I'm OK with being booed.”
“I'm competitive.”
“I was in Las Vegas when the Nogueira brothers first touched down in America. There was a bus - this is a true story. There was a bus that pulled up to a red light, and Little Nog tried to feed it a carrot while Big Nog was petting it. He thought it was a horse. This really happened.”
“Sports are something that, for the most part, are for kids, and if you're able to extend your career, you're very lucky.”
“All medicine is made to make you better. If it did the opposite, it would be malpractice.”
“People bring it up to me: 'Well, you're only in your spot because you can talk well.' Okay, first off, you could be right. But second, what - am I supposed to apologize for this? No.”
“The only thing more embellished than Floyd Mayweather's pay-per-view buys is Floyd Mayweather's net worth. But his spending habits are real.”
“I will never hope to walk into a room and be cheered.”
“What you don't want is for somebody to not care. Whenever they have no feeling at all, that's bad. Even if they kind of like you or they kind of don't, that's also bad. It's got to be a strong emotion one way or the other.”
“Jealousy is a hell of a thing. There's a reason it's one of the deadly sins.”
“Every fight day, I just stay in my room the entire day, and I just stay in bed. I sleep as late as I can, which usually isn't very late; I'm kind of an early riser. But I try to just stay there in bed. I don't usually eat the day of the fight. I don't eat until after the fight.”
“The greatest form of expression - or, at least, the most common that we have as human beings, what separates us from the animals - is speaking: the ability to communicate.”
“I'm a God-fearing man, go to church every Sunday, and have since I was a boy. But if I ever found out that God cared one way or another about a borderline illegal fist-fight on Saturday night, I would be so greatly disappointed that it would make rethink my entire belief system.”
“When I was young, they used to call me 'foreman,' not because I was in charge, but because I did the work of four men.”
“I like Bryan Caraway a lot; I used to train with him. I consider him a friend.”