Athlete

What I do is not for the faint of heart, but I'm a different breed.

Skill wise, there's nobody that's gonna outwork me.

If I'm going to get tired, I'd rather it be from fighting and not from wrestling.

At the end of the day, it's an unforgiving sport.

In hindsight, I'd love to be undefeated still, but that's not what this sport is.

I owe it to myself to not sell myself short by taking a pay cut just to go to another organization.

Humans recognize effort, and that's what I do. I give max effort.

This is a making-money business, and the only way to make money is knocking people out. Lying on someone? That's pathetic to me. You gotta drop a bomb.

When I'm done, I want to be known as the fighter that everybody wishes they could've seen live.

I know plenty of wrestlers who are 15-0 and going nowhere.

When I lose, I'll get knocked out. It won't be because I got outworked or outskilled or anything like that.

I'm hoping to earn enough to buy a few properties, that way I can make money that way and I want to do social work.

Barboza is up there. He's a scary fight, but I like being scared. And that's a fight that me, as a fan, would want to see. I know how much fans would love something like that. So I'll go out there and try to finish that dude with leg kicks.

Working in a juvenile detention center, being a probation officer for at-risk youths, I'll do something like that. Something nice and stable.

I could lose and it could be the best fight ever, it still does great things for me.

My timing and pressure is the definition of MMA.

It sucks to say it, but if I was to go out there and get outclassed by James Vick, I'd have to hang them up. He's not good, he's slow.

God, it's such an unforgiving sport.

To be a superstar you have to win and you have to have something special. For me, I hope that knocking people out is my something special because I can't sell myself, per se, and become a different person on camera and a different person off camera.

I get paid by the fight, not by the minute.