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“There is still so much room for me to get better. Everyone in this sport evolves so quickly. You could take six months off and come back to a totally different game. That's why I'm always in the gym working. Even if I don't have a fight lined up, I'm still in there working to improve my overall game.”
“Cleveland's a great city. I love the city. The people here are awesome. They're loyal and hard-working, and they're loyal to our sports scene, and things are changing here.”
“Werdum's the champ for a reason. He's good at jiu jitsu; like he says, he's gotten better on his feet.”
“I just work hard at everything I do. If there's something I need to learn, I stick to it, I learn it and put everything I have toward it.”
“I love watching 'Orange Is the New Black,' and I play video games, like 'Call of Duty.'”
“Whoever they want me to fight, I'm going to fight. So I really don't care.”
“I love fighting. I love what I do.”
“I do my days at the station and then get my training in.”
“I'm going to be the champion for a long time.”
“Every fight's like that. You try to break the guy's will.”
“I think I train too hard.”
“I've wrestled my whole life, and when I got done with college, I went back to school to become a firefighter. I liked MMA, but I didn't really know if I wanted to get punched in the face!”
“I'm not scared to go to the ground. I've been wrestling my whole life. I've done a lot of jiu jitsu, but I like standing up, and every fight starts there.”
“One guy might be ranked higher, but it doesn't mean anything. Where these fights go, lots of things can happen.”
“You are a role model to people. You gotta make sure you're doing the right thing.”
“You can look at it and say I'm doing this better or that better, but the bottom line is, I just learned to be mentally tougher.”
“I'll always be a firefighter, no matter what.”
“I'm hungrier than all of them. They didn't put in the effort that I did to get the title. So I don't care what it takes - I'm not giving up that title. I worked too hard to get it, and I'm not going to lose it.”
“I'm just happy the city has something to be proud of. The Cavs, the Indians, the Monsters. It just shows that we are the land of champions.”
“I love what I do, both aspects - fighting and being a firefighter and paramedic.”