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“You need to respect the body. We're not 22, 23 years old. I'm 35.”
“Try to find a good gym, have a schedule or take a class every day, and make it a habit.”
“Sometimes, people say, 'You need to fight smart.' After a fight gets started I don't know what happens with me. I feel crazy. A lot of times my coach says, 'Calm down. Calm.'”
“Bellator is indirectly creating the stars division - I'm 42 now - where stars fight each other.”
“I fixed my nose, and now I'm breathing better, snoring less.”
“I've had more than 200 stitches, only in the area of the eyes.”
“It's sad when a MMA fighter talks to an NFL or NBA player about how much money they make. That's embarrassing. You tell them how much you make and they laugh.”
“Sometimes I fight with my heart, then I open myself way too much.”
“My great fight was against Liddell. I lost via decision but it was one of the fights that I most enjoyed to be part of. He was tough, had heavy hands, I was able to handle him and knock him down in the second round, we gave an amazing show.”
“I lost six months of work due to throwing open punches and took a punch on the chin.”
“I'm so happy to have my first main event in the UFC.”
“Sonnen always appeared as the nice guy, consoling his fighters, while my scenes were all of me with ugly face. It was biased.”
“The promotions put fighters against each other, and they don't want to pay anything to them. If you refuse to fight, the promoter shows up - and sometimes he wants to show off more than the fighters. This is a shame.”
“I've made it very clear to you all that I will never again fight for this promotion, the U.F. Circus. Fixed fights, and I can prove it!”
“I'm against all types of drugs and steroids, but the athlete has the right to have a private life. He has to be clean on the day of the competition. Out of competition, that's his life.”
“If I could leave a tip for the young guys, it would be don't hit yourselves every day.”
“The active fighters can't speak up or they will be fired. Because this monopoly doesn't allow for a free market. We have to free the fighters so they can fight wherever they want.”
“Lyoto makes it very difficult to knock him out, he escapes well and moves very well.”
“I was in a lecture about concussions and of the 10 symptoms the guy mentioned, I had eight. The symptoms would be, for example, mood swings, getting angry very fast, forgetting some things, having difficulty sleeping.”