You want to be a part of the big card. You want to be part of history.
— Max Holloway
I just love striking.
Numbers don't lie. Women lie, men lie, but numbers don't lie.
Aldo is a hell of a champion.
I always eat before I go into a training session.
People get some success, they get some money, they get some power, and they put themselves on this pedestal above other people. They forget people and try to fit in with their new crews they think they need to be around with. I didn't believe that. I'm still human being.
I'm working hard. I'm putting in the hard work. I'm sacrificing. I ain't asking for no handouts. I'm going to earn everything I'm given.
You've got to believe in your damn self and do the damn thing, so I'm a big believer in self-belief, man, and going out there and working hard and sacrificing.
I'm not trying to be this guy just chugging along. I want to lead the pack.
I'm trying to lead the pack. I'm trying to sprint.
If you're not confident in this sport, you're not going to get very, very far.
The obvious thing is I would love to fight Conor McGregor. We've got some history there, and he won, and people saying he didn't knock me out because of an injury he had. I was injured in the fight, too, so let's test that theory. I want to test that theory.
I tell myself, 'I'm the greatest, and this is what you need to do.'
I might even be at heavyweight one day; I don't know. You guys know our eating habits is bad down in Hawaii, so your boy might get big, and we might make history.
This is what champions do: champions defend. They always say you're not a champion until you defend your title.
You test yourself. That's what real fighters do.
I gotta respect our sport, my division, and the guys that are fighting in it. That's what I gotta do.
It's a legacy thing, and when it's all said and done, I want to leave a legacy in whatever way. If not, if it's helping the division, if it's fighting big names, I just want to be remembered as one of the greatest all-time to ever do this in the sport. That's just what I want to do.
Anybody and everybody's going to get it. I'm not racing through my division. I'm cleaning it out. So if you want two L's, you're going to get two L's, and if you're looking for one, come fight 'Blessed.'
Pulling out of a fight is just like not taking a fight.
There's ways to get the right nutrients and eat the food you want and have it taste great.
A nutritionist is expensive, but it's money well spent.
It's what kings do. If you want to be the best, you have to beat the best.
Too many guys are over here begging for people and trying to chase people to fight, this and that, begging for money fights. You become your own damn money fight.
When I start running my mouth, I start running facts. I start giving guys numbers. I start giving guys ideas of where I come from and where I work.
Conor McGregor set this bar, and I'm trying to break it. If you're not trying to break it, then why are you in the game?
These guys are playing checkers. I'm out here playing chess. When they figure it out, it's too late.
I believe I'm the best guy in the world.
I know I'm the greatest, and like I said, I ain't here to be average. I always wanted to stick out as a sore thumb, so that's what I'm doing. It's just confidence.
I want the undisputed career. I want the best damn career. I want to be the best guy ever to do this.
Us Hawaiians - I'm Hawaiian-Samoan. I love to eat. I want to go for four titles: 155, 170, 185; they all can get it.
I ain't trying to run away from no danger. If it's supposed to be dangerous for me, then I'm going to go and take a peek. I want to go and look and see what's so dangerous about it.
Who in their right mind goes into a fight they think they're going to lose?
It took me 10 fights to get the damn interim title shot and then 11 to get an undisputed shot.
I want to have my 11 or 12, 13, 14 belt picture. I want to be lying down just covered in them. I want a lot of them. I want my closets to be filled with UFC belts.
I don't cry about anything.
I never turned down a fight in my life.
I love food. I love eating. I love it a lot, man.
My coaches deserve a lot of respect.
I got to fight the greatest-of-all-time in my weight division - not once but twice. I was watching this guy when I was 16 years old when I first started kickboxing. I wanted to fight Aldo in a kickboxing match. A couple years later, I came to MMA and wanted to fight him. 10 years later, I got to fight the man twice.
I did an interview for MMA Hawaii when I was growing up, and I told them the guys I want to fight are Anthony Pettis and Jose Aldo.
When I speak, I speak facts, and if you're getting mad, it's because you know it's the truth.
MMA is forever evolving.
They should just put 'two' beside everybody's name, you know? Because there's only No. 1 guy out there, and that's the champion.
All I have to do is keeping on focusing on what Max Holloway does, and that's winning - and winning fashionably.
I just want to be dominant.
I'm a fighter. I go in the ring and do one thing.
If I medically can't make the weight, then I'm not going to force my body to do something that it doesn't want to. I'll gladly go up to '55.
Heroes get remembered, but legends never die.
If you want to be the best, you've got the beat the best, and the best is 'Blessed,' baby.
