“If I was really trying to be the best fighter in the world, I would be in the best shape and taking it more serious but I’m not.”

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.

Brock Lesnar is not a fighter. He’s scared to be hit.

A lot of people said I would never make it, and this and that, I’d never be a top 10 fighter, that I’d never fight for a title. Just stuff like that. Achieving all those goals and being the person that I am, this is going against everything everyone said I couldn’t do.

I always had dreamed one day Bruce Buffer’s going to be introducing me. Derrick ‘The Black Beast’ Lewis and I just always pictured him saying it.

I have a couple of properties. Bought some houses and just rent them out.

I’ve been having people doubt me all my life.

I just like being in fun fights.

Everyone else is a mixed martial artist. I’m not a mixed martial artist, I’m a brawler.

As long as they pay me good, that’s all I care about.

The one thing about me, if it is a 15-minute fight, I’m fighting every one of them 15 minutes. And if it’s a 25-minute fight, I’ll be fighting all 25 until the bell rings.

I’ve been through so much stuff that I hope even my enemies wouldn’t have to go through.

I don’t want to fight once a year. I like fighting every other month.

I made my third parole and I believe if I had made it the first time, I wouldn’t be here today. I still would’ve been out there doing stupid stuff.

It’s a job to me, basically. I’m not trying to be the best fighter in the world or nothing like that. I don’t come in trying to think I am the best fighter. I don’t care about none of that. It’s just a job to me.

The best player I ever played with was Dennis Johnson.

Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.

I’ve got a long way to go to being the ultimate best, but I think my time is now. And I’m starting to enter my prime.

All right, every day ain’t going to be the best day of your life, don’t worry about that. If you stick to it you hold the possibility open that you will have better days.

You never know if you have met your best friend in life yet. That still may be to come.

For five years I’ve felt like the best prostitute in a high-class whorehouse. But all the other girls get paid more than I do.

Humanity is best described as inhumanity.

There’s nothing I’ve ever worked on that beat ‘Game of Thrones’ – that’s a 10-hour movie; they put a lot of money in it.