I've got to control my emotions. When I fight out of emotions, it doesn't end up so well.
— Donald Cerrone
As soon as I get it, I spend it. I need to start saving it.
Aw man, I spend it pretty much as fast as I make it. If I want something, I don't wait around and plan or nothing. I just go out and get it.
For a while, I drank the juice - I did things the way everybody else said to. I listened to their advice. But it didn't work.
I just love to be out on the lake, wakeboard, surfing, just playing, man.
I'd be lying if I said I didn't want to be the best, but I would just fight anyone, any time. I don't care.
I made it this far eating fruit roll-ups and having soda pop and having fun. I feel like I tried changing that to do like everyone says I should, and I just feel better being me.
When I got picked up by the Tapout crew and was featured on their reality show, that really jumpstarted my career.
I want all of the blue collar American working class people to know that I'm out there fighting for them.
I want the belt. Always.
The only thing I can do is fight. Win or lose, I'm here every damn time.
Who am I to say CM Punk is a joke?
Jose Aldo, he's a stud, and I would be honored to be in there to throw down with him.
You see all the movies where people say, 'Don't fight out of anger'? They say that for a reason.
They aren't going to take my guns. I have 44 guns, and they aren't going to take my guns.
I'm not trying to be anything other than the way I was born and raised.
I wish I had millions in the bank; I'd never go broke. Let's get that belt and get millions in the bank.
The UFC has been very good to me, man.
I'll go to 185 pounds; who cares? Just give me fights.
I tend to worry about now, now, and I'll worry about then, then.
I don't even know who Michael Chandler is.
Fighting's not me - it's just something that I do.
Fighting in the UFC means that I'm at the top of the sport, and it means that I'm able to pursue my goal of being a champion in the UFC.
I didn't really have intentions of fighting in MMA; it just kind of fell into place. Once I started fighting, though, I loved it, and I walked away from kickboxing right away.
I don't take much pride in fake fighting.
I love fighting as much as I can and as often as possible.
If you're in the UFC, you're one of the baddest dudes around.
Milk Duds and Hot Tamales are what I love.
Wrestling is something I feel really confident in now.
They need to enforce how and who to give guns to. But there are Americans like me who are responsible, and they shouldn't take that away. If they outlaw guns, they won't take mine.
The young guys keep me motivated. Youngsters coming up behind me.
People get all caught up thinking they have to train a certain way or take a certain approach to things, but there's so much more to this than fitting into what other people think you are supposed to do. You have to have fun and enjoy what you are doing; otherwise, what is it all worth?
It's hard to have money in the bank and want something and then not get it.
I own everything. I own my RV, my house, my trucks, my boat. Everything is paid for.
It's kind of stupid that people think I'm just partying all the time.
Everyone at home sitting on their couches, they think it's so easy to fight. Stepping inside that cage is probably the hardest thing in the world to do. I truly believe that.
I don't care where I fight on the card, but to get people motivated or excited, like, 'Cowboy's fighting!' that's my overall goal.
For me, fighting is just so fun; I love it. It's just what I enjoy doing, and for me to go out there and go wake boarding and go rock climbing and then turn around and go fight, how awesome is that?
My time with the WEC was great for me; it was great to be able to get big-show experience, headline fight-cards, and fight for world titles.
People ask me, 'Why don't you take time off?' but the working class doesn't take time off. They're out there working every day. That's what I do, too. I want them to know there is hope, and I'm out there just like they are.
There is nothing more I love more than being in a throw-down on a Saturday night.
A great fight that I'd love is B.J. Penn. That would be so awesome. He's a veteran of the sport. He's fought everywhere.
I am never more or less motivated for a fight - it's always the same.
I eat a lot of candy. I can't survive without candy.
Sometimes you just don't show up, and in our profession, it's a bad day.
I want to be a professional wakeboarder.
When I fought Benson Henderson for the first time, or Jamie Varner, it was always like, 'Oh man... I'm in here fighting these guys. Do I really belong here?' That's all changed now.
To be honest I quit taking training and fighting so seriously and went back to living my life and having fun. I try to teach that to all the guys who come out here to train and live with me.
