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“I don't like feeling too tight. Like if you bench too much, you feel like you can't move your arms right.”
“I'm very secure with my career. I had a great time. Now it's time to sit back like Al Bundy and talk about past glories.”
“I'm a New Yorker, I say what's on my mind, because not being that way, what's the point of that? People may think this is hype, but you look back before at my other fights and you see that I don't talk trash.”
“When I was younger and I'd get into scraps, someone would throw a punch, but next thing you know it's on the ground.”
“No matter what I think about Matt Hughes, and it's not much, he's a dangerous opponent.”
“I don't go out of my way to be a smack talker, you can ask me about anyone and I'll give you my honest opinion.”
“I'm the farthest thing from a hater if any of the former guys do the post UFC commentary shows. I would never knock anybody for doing them.”
“I judge how I'm going to fight by how I'm fighting in the gym, and that's how I'm going to perform.”
“I would love to put closure on my career with one last fight at the Garden, but at the same time, if that doesn't happen, I definitely consider myself done.”
“Even if you see me with some pasta, I'm still strangling and arm-locking people at least five days a week and I need that.”
“You gotta have a thick skin to be a fighter.”
“They had to cut me open through my armpit and cut through whatever they had to cut through and get my rib out.”
“Whenever there's something you've done that everybody and their mother said you couldn't do, and it was like an impossible feat, of course, it's awesome.”
“Everybody sees it and thinks it's so exciting. They don't realize it's a professional sport. Everyone wants to be an ultimate fighter until they get hit.”
“I fight the way I train, the way I spar.”
“I do believe that 'Aljo' could be world champion. If you look at the fighters he's faced and beaten, they're high caliber people. He's also faced and overcome adversity, including back-to-back losses in fights he could have won.”
“I get chubby real quick.”
“I need my jiu-jitsu, man.”
“I'm the Rocky of MMA.”
“Look, when my career is over and done with, I'm the one who can look back and say that I was the champ.”