Travis Browne

“Every fight I feel like I'm fighting for my job.”

“No matter who I fight, I'm going to be at a disadvantage in the experience department.”

“I'm not trying to just sit on the couch for a year.”

“I've had to learn fast. I've kind of come up the hard way in this sport and just a sense of my training partners and my coaches and that's been something that I've been having to deal with since day one.”

“Sometimes guys will come out and just barely squeak by to get a win and then wonder why they don't get a title shot. Who wants to see that?”

“Keep doubting me. Please keep doubting me. I will give you something to be upset about if you doubt me.”

“I've never said 'no' to a fight and I've always been ready for anything they've thrown my way.”

“There was a point in my life and my career where I had less than $100 to spend on both of my kids for Christmas. I remember telling myself, I remember telling my best friend, I said, 'This will never happen again.' I will not let this happen. I mean, $100 for me to spend on my family, friends, everybody.”

“I'm disliked a lot and it's probably for the wrong reasons.”

“I'd love to be a coach one day, but before fighting I was into dog training. I was a handler and I really enjoyed that.”

“In Hawaii, where I'm from, I'm Hapa Haole. It's pretty much if you're mixed blood or have two different ethnicities or even more, you're considered Hapa. It really means half but now it just means mixed.”

“As far as Alistair goes, he's got a great fan base, he's a great name fighter, and I look forward to competing against him.”

“I feel like a lot of people, because he's Alistair Overeem, have catered to him.”

“I had offers to go overseas and play basketball but I turned it down because I wanted to stay local. So I got started in Jiu Jitsu, which was something I could be competitive at.”

“Coach Winkeljohn is hell on pads, that guy pushes you so hard.”

“For me, I'm a family man. I absolutely love my family and they're the closest thing to my heart. And to me, that's my life.”

“I was a painting contractor for a while and then a dog trainer. I opened my own business dog training and had some success.”

“That's the hard thing about this sport. You don't have a guy over you telling you what you have to do. 'You have to do this, you have to do that.' So at the end of the day, I'm responsible for myself. So what I do is I put people in place around me to help keep me accountable.”

“Getting a win is nice but you have to have a dominant performance to make a run at that title, I believe.”

“I don't like the fake stuff that goes on outside the ring.”