This is a sport of a lot of knowledge, of knowing yourself well, knowing your soul and your spirit, your abilities both physically and mentally.
— Jorge Masvidal
Nobody is taking my lunch money.
If it was... let's say they just banned 170, that it was either 55 or 85, I'd go to 185 before I'd go to 55.
I've never tapped in my whole entire career.
I just want to fight the best guys that there is in the world and make the most money out of it.
I've got a big buzz going on because I'm known and put people to sleep.
Usually with my opponents, I don't care if they win the lottery or they die.
I understand my role in this life, and my job is just to hurt people and get them out of there.
I'm the type of guy if you say something right now, whenever I see you, I'm going to hold you to that.
I don't want any up-and-coming guys. I want someone that's established already, that's good.
It's taken me 26 professional fights to seek out nutritional help and I finally did and it's made a big change in my weight as far as weight cutting goes.
I want to give big kudos to USADA. Can it be better? Yeah.
When I get anxiety and depression and things like that, I take to eating.
I've had to prove myself beyond that street-fighter image with some people in the UFC. It has a stigma to it.
I'm a real fighter.
I move my head. I don't get hit.
If I can compete five, six times a year that would be perfect.
I can talk, I can express myself. But many times when people are talking just to talk, to say negative things, I don't like it because this is not a negative sport.
I just want to go out and compete. Plus the main thing is, at 55 I need a good amount of time to prepare just to make the weight cut. At 70 I can just take fights as they come and just compete as much as I want.
I was definitely done with 155, then when I heard they ended up banning IVs I was like, there's no way I can make 55.
I've never pulled out of a fight.
I used to be a 55er, Conor used to be a 45er. I'm naturally a 70 pounder, Conor's probably a natural 55er. I'm a small 70 pounder though and Conor's a decent-sized 55er so the size is not that much. It's not incomparable.
I always cheer for my MMA brothers and sisters.
If you look through my career, I put an end to a lot of guys never been knocked down, never been stopped.
I never care about my opponents, especially now - I care about 'Gamebred' and 'Gamebred' is only going for the off button.
I can box. I can hit hard. I've got different angles.
If they're not the toughest fights I can get, then give me a complete washup, someone that'll be an easy payday. But I'd rather have the toughest fights I can get so I can get to the title the fastest way possible.
You don't spit on people, especially people's corners.
I could sit down and give USADA my opinions on it, but I want to say they've done a great job. Guys like me are shining because of USADA.
A lot of times I went to sleep hungry, and not because I was cutting weight for a fight.
My mom would get up every day at 4 A.M. and worked two jobs. I always felt I was the poorest kid on the block. I had a chip on my shoulder about being broke.
Dana White, bring me someone that can beat me. You can't find no one that can beat me.
I thought me hitting you and you not hitting me and me making you miss and even throwing more than you means that I won a fight.
The main reason I'm in this sport is not to run mouths and make posts on Twitter and stuff. It's to compete.
Askren is that dude I'm not losing in any universe to.
My body fat at 173 is five percent, so the rest is just straight water that I lose.
I want to put money away in the bank.
Definitely the title, definitely Kamaru Usman interests me.
I grew up in Miami, Florida.
I've been fighting in people's backyards my whole life.
Ben Askren had never been knocked out when I got a hold of him.
At any given moment, if I see my bully, the guy who's trying to conquer me, we're going to find out. And if we could fight every time we came across each other, we would.
I'm not going to get tired in a 12 round boxing event, especially if I have time to prepare for it.
I thought eating Double Quarter Pounders with Big Mac sauce wasn't that bad, but I guess it was.
Nobody has ever wanted - they get forced to fight Yoel. Ask anybody.
Let me make this clear: I think USADA has moved my sport forward in certain ways that I couldn't have imagined.
My dad was always a motivation, even when he wasn't there.
I got kicked out of school... I caused a lot of turbulence throughout those years.
I'm not a sock-em, rock-em type of guy.
I can't stay stuck in the past.
