Travis Browne

“The people that are around me understand what kind of man that I am.”

“I think it's important for the kids to spend quality time with their parents, and to see their parents happy and loving life, even if it so happens that they live apart. That's a lot better than having them stay together and be miserable.”

“I got into MMA because I wanted to show my kids that they could be an athlete, that they could push themselves in whatever direction they wanted in life.”

“I guess you could call me a soccer dad.”

“With all my workouts, I have a hard time keeping weight on. My body wants to keep losing weight so I have to eat more.”

“I didn't come from wrestling. I didn't come from boxing or kickboxing.”

“Since I fought Bigfoot, I've actually become a big fan of his, the way he carries himself and the way he handles himself. You have to respect the guy, with what he's done in the sport. With that said, I'd still love to compete against him and hopefully one day avenge that loss, if that's in the cards.”

“My choice was to become great, to become better than average.”

“The title shot, the way I look at it is I just have to go out there and do my job. If I keep winning fights, there's no way they can't give me that title shot.”

“I think people in the MMA world don't like boxing because it's not as exciting as MMA because you don't get big slams.”

“I'm not a dirty fighter.”

“People beat themselves in this sport.”

“People find beauty in the desert. I don't know where they're looking because I haven't found it. It's ugly. It's nasty. It's dirt. It's desert. It's sand. It's rock. It's cactus. It's lizards and snakes.”

“I learned as a fighter I know how to go out there and mess somebody.”

“My fights all have great meaning to me because they give me the chance to put myself in a position I probably wouldn't have been in before without all of this. The one thing I won't lack in this business is motivation.”

“I owned a couple different businesses.”

“I was the idiot on the couch, 'I could beat some of these guys!' I would say that about Tim Sylvia. But I was like, 'Freakin' Arlovski, he looks like an athlete.' He looked rock solid.”

“I create openings, and I move. I fight. It's an art form.”