Derek Brunson

“Everybody wants to come out here and test my cardio but I'm one of the hardest working guys in the division.”

“I'm always looking for those knockouts but I'm looking to do it in a better fashion. Not rushing, not blitzing, not putting myself at risk. Not just being too greedy.”

“I look at a lot of my fights and I'm like, 'man, that was too greedy.' I can even look back on my fights, even the good ones where I got the knockouts, and think, 'I should have probably toned it down a little bit.'”

“MMA in my opinion is the hardest sport in the world, no doubt.”

“I messed up my eyes. It's funny, I was training and we thought I had a mild concussion. But you know, I was out in Albuquerque and I would train from 9:30 to 11:00 and then I would rest all day long until 5:00 and I'd be playing on my phone, so I was playing on my phone and it scrambled my fore-vision.”

“You have to be sharp, you have to be ready. You have to have guys that can push you in terms of these high-level fights or otherwise you're going to get out to these fights and your opponent has been pushed and they are ready to compete. If you have not been pushed and you're not ready, you can't just turn that switch on that night.”

“There's no easy fights in the UFC.”

“Strikeforce let me take a fight on short notice outside the promotion and I got robbed on a split decision against Kendall Grove. I easily won that fight. So, I went from 9-0 to getting robbed and suffering my first loss.”

“If I hit anybody with that left hook, they're going down.”

“Obviously, you've got to go out there and focus on each fight before moving onto the next one.”

“I fell in love with the knockout. I was in a relationship with the knockout.”

“MMA is a sport. We go out here and we do battle. Everybody has family, friends, they train really hard.”

“I'd say I just fell in love with trying to knock people out really quick instead of letting the fight develop.”

“I still wanna keep my aggressive ways and let my skills be on display.”

“I'm a dangerous guy.”

“I know, every fighter knows, you've got to pile up wins in a row. You can't lose two in a row, three in a row and then you hear mentions of losing your job.”

“I'm going out there as I do in every fight to put guys away but I'm going to do it in a smart fashion.”

“I'm a firm believer that I'll make fights happen, get the fights done.”

“Fighting Anderson Silva was a signature and career-defining moment that was stolen from me.”

“Greg Jones, you don't get any better than that when it comes to wrestling. I actually looked up to him when I was in college.”