Nate Diaz

“I'm trying to stay focused on what I'm doing. I don't want a whole lot of things going on - people to call back, or text messages or whatever. I chill out, relax a little bit, and then I don't have those issues.”

“I don't see a superstar out there. I don't see Georges St-Pierre coming back.”

“Every fight, I'm fighting blind opponents. I don't know who it's going to be, who I'm fighting, if I'm really fighting them.”

“I need a vacation anyway. They fight me too much. I'm not going to be the one to back out of these fights.”

“I always took a fight; I always took everybody. I fought everybody.”

“I want to fight the best guy. I always want to fight the best guy.”

“I'm not sure what the UFC's agenda is when it comes to me. It's their show, their press. They can change to whatever they want to do at any point. They own this thing. They can do whatever they want.”

“You know when I fight, I'm going to sell out the show. Everyone wants to see someone get knocked out or tapped out.”

“My parents moved around Stockton and Lodi. I had a lot of anxiety about jumping into another classroom. They were always putting me in special ed. But I was smart; I wasn't like these kids in the special-ed classes. But it would make me feel a little bit stupid.”

“Me calling out Roy Jones is disrespectful.”

“I don't like not having a job. Especially when I started Mixed Martial Arts, this was all I could do.”

“I don't love to fight; I don't want to fight.”

“It's just kinda irritating to me that we're awarding people in mixed martial arts for trying to move away and not finish the fight.”

“If anybody's getting a shot, somebody's getting a shot against me because I'm the guy to beat.”

“I'm scared of any fighter I've ever fought because they are some dangerous people to be dealing with. That's also where the anxiety comes from.”

“If you don't find time to meditate and get all that negative out, and if you don't have the right people being positive around you, this is a very scary job to have if you don't learn how to control your fear.”

“I never did steroids in my life. I know all the fighters; they are all on steroids.”

“It cost me a lot of money to have a vacation, basically. It's nice to step back and see there's more to life.”

“I win by submissions, knockouts. There's guys ranked above me, but no one's interested in seeing them fight. They want to see me fight.”

“I'm the only person in this sport, for the most part, that ain't on steroids. Now there's new rules in effect, yeah, you've got guys not on steroids now, but they used to be. They've always been on steroids.”