“I’m an optimistic guy.”

I believe I get the belt then I’ll get the money. I’m not trying to be the best fighter in the world. It’s all about the cheddar.

My goal is just to make as much money as I can in the sport, and that’s it.

The guys in the top five, they’re good everywhere. Me, I’m just almost one-dimensional.

I wanted to start in boxing, but you have to train a little harder to be a boxer. A lot of those guys can take punches. MMA, you only have to hit someone so hard to knock them out.

I’ve been in deep waters a bunch of times in my fights.

You eat salad and you’re hungry the next 30 minutes and you’re hungrier from when you ate the damn salad.

I speak my mind too much, and the UFC probably don’t really like that. But I really don’t care.

I just feel that all the top fighters in the world are making all the money.

This heavyweight division, it takes just one punch for anyone. It doesn’t matter how hard you train or what.

I don’t even train for these fights. I’m not mad when people say that because it’s true.

I just believe that my heart is the best in the sport. And I believe that’s what carried me through my whole career. Not my talent or my power or anything like that. I just believe my heart.

I’m just going to keep fighting, try to stay active as much as possible.

I’m fighting just so I can take care of my family.

I don’t care where I’m at in the heavyweight division. As long as I win enough, so they keep me. That’s about it.

I have a lot of anger built up in me from my childhood. My wife and kids are the only ones who give me peace in this world.

I know just about everything that really goes on with domestic violence.

People have been wonderful to me in the good times and the bad, and I’ve come to believe that you do indeed reap what you sow.

I try not to be either optimistic or pessimistic. I try not to think about outcomes on that scale. My job, it seems to me, is to wake up every morning and figure out how to cause as much trouble for the fossil fuel industry as I can.

I cling to the optimistic belief that the haphazard and the hopscotch, the creature that sips among many flowers, may actually come up with something.

I’m extremely optimistic about rapid transformation and change of things in Africa in general.

What I learned was to live in my heart and to do what will make my happy, and that was not selfishness. It didn’t matter what job I took, my mother’s answer was, “Do what will make you happy.”

It’s so weird, not knowing what your life is going to be. I’m being optimistic. And when ‘Leverage’ comes to an end, I have lots of ideas for other things. You can’t really sit and wait for things to come to you.

I have seen such an immense change from the total repression and criminality of homosexuality in my lifetime. It does make me much more buoyant and optimistic about the future. If that change can occur in that time there’s hope for many other changes.

Miracles happen to those who believe in them.