Athlete

I like deer. They're kinda cool.

I've framed houses, worked on an asphalt crew, I was a cop, a lifeguard.

I love football and basketball but fighting is the original, most primitive to our nature.

Jesus was a liberal. Jesus was like the original liberal.

In the beginning, fighting was fun - I wasn't concerned with the outcome. At some point, I started training out of fear and anger. I wasn't really happy.

I just love fighting. I know I'm not the best, but I'm still pretty good, there's a lot of people I can still beat. What do you do. What else am I supposed to do? I have no other skills. I enjoy doing this. There's nothing I'd really rather do, you know?

I found being a coach in 'The Ultimate Fighter' series hard because I had to care about others. I don't feel a lot of empathy with others. Having kids is going to be a scary one for me - I guess I'm going to have to learn.

In the grand scheme of things, fighting people in the cage is not that big of a deal, I know. It's not a hero profession even though its treated as one. It's not being a soldier or police officer or paramedic of firefighter or anything.

I was a police officer in Augusta, Ga.

I've been victimized by general filthiness on multiple occasions... I received a nasty staph infection... I was told to wait it out... a few days later I literally thought I was going to die... I ended up being on antibiotics for five weeks and, as a result, I had to back out of the fight against Machida.

Look what happened when I fought Anderson Silva. It can't possibly get worse than that. I've already seen the bottom and it wasn't that bad. I made it through. I survived. It's fighting. It's not the end of the world.

I like not having a job, not having to get up early in the morning is awesome. I would recommend it to anybody.

When you get the opportunity to give away somebody else's money to make somebody else's life a little better. That's pretty cool, actually.

There will be a time when I physically cannot do this sport.

It's nice to get to do other things and not worry about fighting.

I don't really give a damn about too much other than myself.

Time catches everyone. Sooner or later, it gets everybody.

My fitness philosophy is very different from the UFC fighter fitness philosophy. Mine is to work out in a way that you will be able to sustain for the next 20 years.

During a fight with Anderson Silva, I slipped on an imaginary banana peel.

It gets old, all of it. People putting a lot of hopes and dreams on you. Telling you they put money on you, and 'you're my kid's idol.'