Athlete

That would be great if I could be a role model or inspiration to those who have been in my shoes before.

I just like being in fun fights.

I don't even train for these fights. I'm not mad when people say that because it's true.

Since I was probably eight years old, just about everyday, all the way until I was 14 or 15 years old, just about everyday my mom and my stepdad would roll around in the living room fighting.

I used to only train 30 minutes a day.

That's what really gets me going, thinking about my past. I think about all the tough times and bad times I've had in my life and I bring all that into the Octagon. That's only because it's hard going in there trying to fight someone who didn't do anything to you.

I know I only need one punch to knock any guy out.

The one thing about me, if it is a 15-minute fight, I'm fighting every one of them 15 minutes. And if it's a 25-minute fight, I'll be fighting all 25 until the bell rings.

I wanted to start in boxing, but you have to train a little harder to be a boxer. A lot of those guys can take punches. MMA, you only have to hit someone so hard to knock them out.

I believe the tough fights bring out the better fighter in myself.

This heavyweight division, it takes just one punch for anyone. It doesn't matter how hard you train or what.

I speak my mind too much, and the UFC probably don't really like that. But I really don't care.

I just believe that my heart is the best in the sport. And I believe that's what carried me through my whole career. Not my talent or my power or anything like that. I just believe my heart.

All of my fights, especially all of my UFC fights my whole career, I've never been in there without any kind of impingement and pain wrong with my back.

I'm just going to keep fighting, try to stay active as much as possible.

I don't want to fight once a year. I like fighting every other month.

I go in to fight just to fight. I don't care about submissions, the technique and all of that.

I really don't punch with my left hand anyways.

The only reason I want to climb up the rankings - beating the champion and beating guys in the top five - those are the guys that get the endorsements and get the most money and get paid the most. That's the only reason why.

Everyone else is a mixed martial artist. I'm not a mixed martial artist, I'm a brawler.