Nick Diaz

“I like Georges. I'm a fan of Georges St-Pierre. I appreciate everything he does, and how he does everything to win, and it meets the scoring criteria that sucks.”

“This is my life. It's everything I do, train eight-hour days every day.”

“Have you ever seen me knock somebody out and make a big scene? Hell no.”

“I had my mom drive me to practice everywhere. I'm really grateful I had her.”

“Everybody points their finger at me and says that I'm the crazy guy and this thug.”

“I don't have anything against Georges St-Pierre. I think he's a great fighter. I think he's a nice guy just like everybody else, and he's a great role model. I would love to be that too if I was in that position.”

“I don't care about the Strikeforce belt.”

“Sometimes I'm like, man, I wish I'd just fall off, so people stop talking about me.”

“I drink 10 pounds of water and sweat out 10 pounds of water every day.”

“I felt like my job is to go out there and put on a good show, amazing fights and give an amazing effort and hope that people can recognize that sort of thing, and maybe they would want to find out more.”

“My first experience of doing martial arts was weird, real traditional, strange smell with incense burning. We did a lot of bowing, it was a lot of path of least resistance and go with the flow... Really good stuff for when you're at a young age.”

“I don't owe nobody nothing.”

“Sometimes I feel like I'm the only one who's in tune with what's really going on.”

“I'd like to be thought of as someone who keeps it real.”

“I'm not out here trying putting on an act like I'm crazy. In my opinion, everyone else is crazy. They're the ones who put on an act for you, doing what they're told in front of the camera.”

“People want to see real skill level, real Jiu Jitsu, real boxing, put together and mixed up. They want to see mixed martial arts. They don't want to see five minutes of holding. I think there should be points deducted when you do that.”

“I don't know how they judge fights sometimes.”

“I may not be able to keep fighting for money for a living, but I will always have to fight for my dignity, because that's who I am.”

“You don't always come off the way that you want to or look the way you want to. I go out there and just act up and become the evil villain, and I'm calling guys out and stuff. It seems to have worked. I'm getting the fights I want.”

“I just never try to beat somebody on the scorecards. It's never happened. It's not in me, I think.”