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“I talk the truth. I don't trash talk, I just talk the truth.”
“I want to do that. That's my goal. I want to become a legend.”
“I get paid the same money if I'm fighting on pay-per-view or on Fight Pass, and Fight Pass is just getting started. It's the future. The Internet, many people watch it.”
“Just to be fighting for the belt, I was already happy. No pressure at all.”
“I think every fight is different based on who is fighting.”
“If I take two years off, I would want to fight as much as possible.”
“I fight because I like challenges.”
“When I was 16 years old, I weighed 176 pounds.”
“If I don't fight McGregor, I still have a good life.”
“Everybody talks. Anthony Pettis talked before the fight. Donald Cerrone talked before the fight. See what happened?”
“I always trained hard in my life to win the title, and I will train twice as hard to stay at the top.”
“I train to fight five rounds, but if we can end the fight in the first round, it's even better.”
“People say McGregor is tall and all that. He's as tall as I am, or maybe even shorter. He might have a longer reach, but I've fought Nate Diaz and Cerrone, who had reach advantage, and fought Anthony Pettis and Ben Henderson.”
“I miss submitting people; I have a lot of confidence in my jiu-jitsu.”
“Ben Henderson, he had never been knocked out before fighting me.”
“In the future, I want to have super-fights.”
“I think it's a loser's mentality to get happy with somebody losing.”
“When you put the pressure on yourself, it's not good. If you fight afraid to lose, you wind up not fighting that good.”
“I'm a big fan of Georges St-Pierre.”
“I didn't get any crazy sponsors. I don't have any extra sponsors since I got the belt.”