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“My jujitsu is solid, my striking is solid and I have some power.”
“There's some fights that I've learned from, and ones that I want to take back, but at the end of the day, that's why I'm the most active fighter in the 205 division. I'm not fighting once a year, once every two years.”
“I tell people the number one thing about being a fighter, especially if you're on a good winning streak, you get complacent. If you're supposed to work on 10 things, you end up just doing two or three of them. That happened to me.”
“If I'm not the bigger fighter, I usually feel like the stronger fighter.”
“I wrestled in high school, but I wasn't an All-American.”
“People that have been around me, people that have been here since day one with me, my coach Eric Trainer - even with - those are the people I need in my corner.”
“I was involved in the first pro show that ever took place in the state of Tennessee, so fighting in Vegas is cool, but every time I get a chance to fight in Tennessee, that's what I want to shoot for is to fight in Tennessee.”
“I'm a numbers person. If you're a heavyweight, if you throw 20 punches, at least five of them going to land. And it don't take but one of them to put you out.”
“I don't choose my fights.”
“The thing about MMA is that it brings everything out of you, every emotion you have.”
“I do good going backwards. You come at me going backwards, and pow.”
“A lot of people tell me, 'You need to go here,' or, 'You need to go there.' But I've been around elite coaches all my life. I know what an elite coach looks like. When I hear people say I need to go somewhere else, I just tell them I know what a good coach looks like, and I have great coaches.”
“When you're in a fight, it's just like everything is hitting you all at once.”
“Typically when I enter the cage, I'm usually the bigger fighter. There were only a couple occasions where I wasn't.”
“A lot of people don't realize you need to get the mental training in, too, because that's just as hard, too.”
“People tell me not to strike with certain people, but a lot of elite strikers don't want to strike with me anyway.”
“Anything can happen in any given opportunity.”
“I wouldn't say I doubted myself, but when you have a lot of people telling you that you're good, sometimes you ask yourself, 'Am I that good?' So when you actually go out against those opponents and take care of business, you go, 'OK, I think I could push myself a little more.'”
“The thing about heavyweight is you don't have to cut weight, but the only thing about heavyweight that you gotta think about is, light heavyweight hit hard, heavyweights hit harder.”
“You know, Bader is Bader. He's a strong wrestler. Everybody knows he's great with his takedowns, but when he struggles to get the takedowns, he struggles in the fight.”