A biography for Yair Rodriguezhasn’t been written yet.
“If you live in the present, you are happy.”
“Not all the fighters in the UFC have the same record as me.”
“I'm looking to fight the best guys in the world.”
“I respect everyone out there.”
“A lot of people support me because of that, because I bring an interesting style when I'm fighting. And I guess a lot of people like to see that because it's not very usual to see.”
“That's why we are here: to prove ourselves against the best fighters in history, in the world.”
“I want to fight the best B.J Penn.”
“I've been putting myself in bad scenarios, and all I can think about is growth, growth inside myself, outside myself, my body, my mind.”
“I'm a fighter and you have to be worried about me in many areas of this fighting game.”
“It makes sense to me that the winner between me and Frankie would face the winner of Aldo and Max. That's what I'm looking for, of course.”
“How often have you seen a fighter talking about the next fight and he didn't win the fight he was in? You have to take care of business first and then worry about everything else later.”
“Everybody has their own battles to deal with.”
“I've been learning, this is one of the things that I've been learning: If you are living in the past, you're depressed. If you are living in the future, you have anxiety.”
“I met BJ once down in Albuquerque, it was before my fight with Andre Fili. I met him there, we did a little bit of shadow boxing, he didn't really know me back then but now I'm going to fight him so this is a pretty big deal for me. I used to watch his fights on YouTube and I used to learn from him.”
“In an ideal scenario, I would like to face the champion, right? That's the fight everybody wants.”
“You gotta understand this sport is so dangerous and things can happen. You gotta accept that before you go in there.”
“Of course, Frankie Edgar's experience was a factor in that fight, but I have to be ready. If I'm fighting at the top, I have to be ready.”
“I actually like that - I like taking my time off.”
“You always have to give the benefit of the doubt to your opponent, how he's feeling.”
“The loss against Frankie Edgar was pretty tough on me, of course.”