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“I was at my house, and me, and my brother, and my sister were kind of just playing around. And I was like, 'I wonder if I can twist this apple and rip it apart?' So I was playing around, and I did it, and I was like, 'Wow, that kind of takes a firm grip.'”
“I'm always looking to go out there and finish my opponents as soon as possible so I can stay safe and protected.”
“Houston is super cool, and Katy is super cool, and so is Sacramento.”
“I wanted to study to be a petroleum engineer and get my engineering degree and fight in the UFC at the same time. But unfortunately, to be the best I can be at the UFC, I needed all focus to be there, and more focus, also.”
“I might take a little time off from school to train. I'd be a totally different animal if I trained full time.”
“Obviously, I'm trying to keep improving at everything, from the wrestling to the jiu-jitsu to the striking to the transitions, every part of my MMA aspect.”
“Everybody who is fighting at UFC 200 is awesome! It's going to be awesome to get to meet everybody. I'm excited.”
“I'm always pretty much smiling.”
“I'm young, and I learn not only from every fight but from every practice. When you're young, you soak it all in. You have a lot to learn, and you can get better and better as each day goes by.”
“What's neat about Sacramento is that you can drive - which I've done with the team a bunch of times - is drive, like, an hour or an hour and a half, and you're in Lake Tahoe, and you can go out to the lake or go up in the mountains or go off-road driving or hiking.”
“I think I'm one of the fastest and strongest lightweights out there.”
“I'm honoured and blessed to even be in the UFC, much less be 19 years old in the UFC, knowing I have so much time to learn, so much technique to learn, everything all around to make myself better.”
“The new 'Creed 2' movie is coming out, so I was actually going to audition for that. Got a little audition tape, so hopefully that goes through. That would be pretty neat. Being Ivan Drago's son in the movie? That would be pretty fun.”
“The UFC expects you to perform at your very best. If you're barely training, if you're spending the majority of your time on school, it's impossible to be at your best.”
“I always talk about how Georges St-Pierre is my favorite fighter.”
“I feel like I have goals that I set, and I try to accomplish those goals, so no matter what room I step into, I know the direction that I'm wanting to head.”
“I really don't listen to any of the negative stuff. Anything that's positive, that's kind of the stuff I'm listening to, and that's kind of what, like, brings you up.”
“Typically, when someone gets a choke on me, I have a pretty strong neck. It's usually hard to choke me.”
“People can say what they want. But you can silence a lot of people when you go out there and win.”
“It can be kind of difficult because of the workload I have at Texas A&M, so I have to find time to study as I pursue my major, but also to travel and compete and train hard for my fights to come in the UFC.”