Matt Hughes

“UFC is always working on getting, if not legal, better rules in states for the fighters in the UFC.”

“I really believe if GSP and Silva fight, Georges will have his hand raised.”

“My number one criteria when it comes to judging a mixed martial arts fight is damage.”

“Many first-time novelists end up rewriting their first two or three chapters, trying to get them 'just right.' But the point of the first draft is not to get it right; it's to get it written - so that you'll have something to work with.”

“Mental toughness is my strongest trait and then I would say my physical strength would be number two on the list of strengths.”

“When I get a break between fights I take some time off. I let my body heal. I don't spar in those breaks.”

“I'm not a nightlife guy.”

“I've never been the guy that said 'Chuck Liddell is making this, I need this.'”

“I am not an unhealthy eater for the most part, but I do not restrict the chicken wings and desserts. My brother and I love to barbecue and do it often.”

“It's a lot easier going in there being the underdog with nobody expecting you to win.”

“My saying is, 'Cardio is confidence.'”

“I got in this sport for one reason, and it was to compete.”

“It's competition. I think that's what drives your top athletes in the UFC, getting in there against one other person and mixing it up.”

“In all reality I would never talk bad about Georges.”

“I wouldn't say my dad was a slave driver, but he wanted the best for us.”

“I would really hate to fight out of the UFC, but I would.”

“I got the traumatic brain injury from the train hitting me so hard... gave me a brain shear, which is tearing the axon away from the brain.”

“Writing the first draft is like hitting the beach on D Day. You don't stop to mourn the dead or comfort the wounded. You get off the beach because, if you don't, you'll die there.”

“The Carlos Newton, the first fight, that was pretty pivotal for me. Because if I would have lost that fight, I was going to retire. I had made my mind up before that.”

“GSP is not a great wrestler, but he transitions so well from striking to wrestling that he will be on Silva's legs before Anderson even knows what's going on.”