Diego Sanchez

“I'm just happy to have my job with the UFC and my bosses, they know the level of heart that I have, what I've put into this sport. They know what I bring to the company.”

“I train my mind as much as I train my body.”

“I used to be in the trailer park with one glove on because I didn't have two, punching myself in the face saying, 'I'm Johnny Tapia' to intimidate the other kids that I would box.”

“I remember when I was 27 I was like, 'When I'm 37 years old I'm gonna look at everything. I'm gonna see where my health is at, I'm gonna see where my money's at, and if it's time, maybe I'll take a couple more fights.' Then I hit 37 and I'm like, I feel better at 37 than I did at 27.”

“I'm not fighting for bonuses or money or anything else. I fight because I love to fight and I love being in the heat of the battle and the heat of the moment. You might laugh at me when I say this, but I love feeling like I gave the fans their money's worth.”

“I feel like I always knew fighting was what I wanted to do. But when I was 18, I got into a street fight with this football player. He was a big guy and three years older than me. I really kicked his butt, and I realized I had a talent for this and needed to pursue it.”

“I want to be the first one to say I beat both Diaz brothers.”

“I was thankful for the fight with Kampmann. I was thankful for the cuts, I was thankful because I found something inside of my heart that I knew was there, but I had never tapped into it. I found this warrior's spirit, an old school warrior within me.”

“I'm a workhorse.”

“I train with the best in the world and it's been an awesome experience.”

“Headlining a UFC card is what I have always wanted.”

“After my Clay Guida fight, I went down a bad path, man. It was just not a good path. After my loss to B.J. Penn it just got worse. I got really out of control.”

“I feel like the octagon has been my life.”

“After weigh-ins you're doing wheat pasta or you're trying to carb back up. This was actually really throwing me off, causing an inflammatory response in my digestive system, in my brain, in my body. Throwing off my mind.”

“I will always be prepared for the ground. That's my home, that's where my success started. That's always going to be my biggest strength. But all fights start on the feet; I'm prepared to slug on the feet.”

“I look back on people who are not the average, and those people are not the average because they choose to put it in their mind that they are not the average.”

“Even the best guys in the sport have losses on their record, and Myles Jury, I just feel like he's coming up into that reality check with me.”

“When I shadowbox, I go hard.”

“I'm not the old guy, I'm the Jedi.”