Jon Fitch

“When you win consistently, your pay bumps up every fight. If you lose, you get stuck at the same pay scale.”

“My mother would make meat and sides, but in college, I was always in a hurry, so cooking meat was quick and easy, and there were a lot less sides. I lived off the George Foreman Grill.”

“As a professional MMA fighter, I've experienced firsthand the destructive and biased effects of fighting in MMA without a sanctioning body.”

“If people think that I'm not beating people up in there, all they have to do is look at my opponent's face after the fight.”

“You don't get hit in the face and expect nothing to happen. Things swell, you get cut, you get ugly.”

“I'm going to show everybody what I'm capable of.”

“Traditionally I am a very tough person to choke.”

“I've gone through great pains to change myself as a fighter and a person.”

“I've gone out of my way throughout my career to just fight everybody they put in front of me and it's cost me dearly.”

“I wanted to be the best in the world and prove that I'm the best in the world.”

“I've always had a problem with authority since I was a little kid. Like when the teachers would tell us to do something, I would go to my classmates and say things like, 'Why are we just listening to this person? Why are we all doing this? If we just say no, they can't send us all home. We can't all get in trouble.'”

“The last thing I would ever go after is paydays. I believe your management is responsible for getting you the money you're worth.”

“It sucks I'm not getting the finishes I want, but I'm fighting the best guys out there.”

“The vast majority of the professional sports in the U.S. have sanctioning bodies. The National Football League, Major League Baseball, the Professional Golfers' Association, the National Hockey League, the World Boxing Association, the National Basketball Association, and Major League Soccer are all sanctioning bodies.”

“You literally only have to look to your cellphone and be willing to ask questions and have a critical mind in order to teach yourself.”

“A fight is a fight; it's not a wrestling match.”

“I've chosen to take a humble path and not focus so much on money.”

“Doesn't matter to me, give me a challenge and I'll accept it.”

“I still gain a number of fans with every win and every performance because I'm giving it 100 percent every fight.”

“I'm here to fight and win world titles.”