Rafael dos Anjos

“A lot of fighters come from Brazil. We've been doing this for long, long years.”

“Now that I've achieved my goal to win the belt, I want to be the best of all times. I want to be remembered as the lightweight with most title defenses.”

“I think money comes and goes. What comes easy goes easy.”

“Coming from where I came from, I was born naked with no teeth. Now I have everything.”

“I think to get a title shot, you need to have some expressive winnings.”

“Power is natural, but it can be improved with a lot of work. It's been something I've focused on for a couple of years because I saw it as a place where I could make improvements.”

“Nate Diaz is a tough opponent. I've fought him.”

“I just have to go out and fight my fight and fight to win.”

“I don't want to fight anybody that just wants to hold you and try and eat the time.”

“I train to be the champion.”

“Every fight and every loss taught me something.”

“Cerrone, he's a very good Muay Thai guy, very long.”

“I was tested against the best.”

“A lot of people tell me I have to trash-talk more, but I got here with my fists, fighting, not with my mouth.”

“When you want the belt, you have to work for it.”

“You can promote fights - of course, you have to - you can say 'I'll beat you' or whatever, but you cannot put family, religion, anything like that in the mix. You need to separate things. That is a line a lot of fighters cross.”

“I've learned that the key is to fight with no pressure.”

“When you're a fighter, and you're not doing good in your work, that happens - you lost the fight.”

“I need talk more, call people out. It's not who I am, but I feel I need to do this more to bring more attention for me.”

“Man, Ben Henderson, Donald Cerrone... these guys are a different level, man.”