You could be the best in the world, but it doesn't matter. It's four-ounce gloves. I've been dropped in practice with a knee to the body. I take a good knee to the body and break my ribs in the fight, I lost. I mean, it's a fight.
— Justin Gaethje
Georges St-Pierre's doing it the best. He made his money, made his name, and now he's able to make money not fighting. That's what I want to do.
I'm a coachable person. I don't like to lead myself. I've been taught by great people, and I was able to listen to them.
The way you stop a takedown in wrestling is to meet force with force. You don't try to go away.
Humans recognize effort, and that's what I do. I give max effort.
Everyone knows I'm going to come in there and I'm going to stop your takedowns.
With the way I fight, the UFC's not stupid. For one, they probably know that they're don't have me forever.
I am a Division I All-American wrestler, but I wrestled college wrestling matches, seven minutes long. If I was to go in there and wrestle for seven minutes of a fight, a 25-minute fight, you're not getting nothing out of me for the rest of the time.
I have a human services bachelors degree and I want to work social work, I want to work with at-risk youth.
I'm a great defensive wrestler.
When I'm done, I want to be known as the fighter that everybody wishes they could've seen live.
Natural human instinct, reaction, whatever, is if you're perfect, you're going to try to skate by and get by, get away with things the easiest way possible.
I am a Division 1 wrestler.
I think Khabib is going to take him down immediately, or create some kind of scramble immediately. I don't think Poirier stops his takedowns.
God, it's such an unforgiving sport.
I'm trying to live until I'm at least 65 or 70, so I might as well try and stay healthy until at least that long.
Skill wise, there's nobody that's gonna outwork me.
You only have to go on a couple message boards to know what the fans want, and the fans want you to put it on the line and to entertain them.
I want to be a fighter, this is what I love to do, but it's totally taxing on the body and the mind. Especially the mind.
I'm so much better than James Vick.
I want to prove I'm the best in the world.
I want the best money, and obviously the highest ceiling that you can be the best is in the UFC. But yeah, I praise Bellator. They gave me a great offer.
If I'm going to get tired, I'd rather it be from fighting and not from wrestling.
There's not a lot of people that can sit there and take the punishment that I can deliver.
I'm not here to take damage. I don't want to not be able to talk. Every single time I fight, I know that... this could be the last time that you're able to do this, the last time you're able to talk.
I'm not an idiot.
I wrestled Jordan Burroughs two times - Jordan Burroughs had a hell of a time trying to take me down. I stopped his double leg numerous times. And he also, probably, fractured my sternum - from me trying to stop him.
My pressure is second to none and my timing and attitude are second to none, and that's what I want to be recognized for; not for being undefeated, because what does that mean? That just means you won. And I want to known for my style and the way that I fight, the timing that I bring and the fact that I rely on my reactions, stuff like that.
I owe it to myself to not sell myself short by taking a pay cut just to go to another organization.
I just like punching loudmouths in the face.
I'll worry about things I can control.
I get paid by the fight, not by the minute.
I've wanted to - and have been - testing myself against the best guys in the world.
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 know for a fact entertainment is more important than winning.
Me and my brother, as anybody who's a twin will tell you... it's a competitive relationship. Ours is really competitive.
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.
I want to go to Brazil, I want to fight top Brazilians in Brazil. I want to go to Russia, fight Khabib in Russia.
I praise World Series of Fighting, they gave me every opportunity I had, and at the end, they were totally professional and did everything they could to help me out.
From a business standpoint, of course I'm not gonna fight someone that's unranked or something like that.
At the end of the day, it's an unforgiving sport.
I love reading comments online.
I want the biggest fights possible.
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 should never be trying to avoid something in a fight, especially something I'm good at.
You have to learn how to fight through when it sucks and it's really hard.
I want to take out the best in America, then I want to take out the best in the world.
I don't want to fight guys ranked behind me.
I wanted to take the short road to the top, and I think I'm doing that.
When I lose, I'll get knocked out. It won't be because I got outworked or outskilled or anything like that.
