“There’s many ups and downs in the fight game.”

To do anything to a high level, it has to be total obsession.

I take inspiration from everyone and everything. I’m inspired by current champions, former champions, true competitors, people dedicated to their dream, hard workers, dreamers, believers, achievers.

I’m not going to get somewhere and say, ‘OK, I’m done.’ Success is never final; I’ll just keep on going.

I train and I go home, and when I’m home, I think about training. That’s my life every day, and that’s it.

I have a self-defense mind. I’ve had it all my life.

I want to negotiate what I’m worth. I want to put my analytics forward, man-to-man, and to be like, ‘This is what I’m owed now. Pay me.’ And then we can talk.

When I say something’s going to happen, it’s going to happen.

I always teach myself calm and visualization stuff.

What someone else does or doesn’t do has no effect on me and what I do.

I don’t feel that emotion is a good thing to have in combat. You must be cold.

I’m interested in movement, and I’m interested in money, and I’m interested in the movement of money.

People say that I’m a boxer. I actually started with kick boxing, and then I moved onto boxing, and then I moved onto grappling.

I feel you’re in charge of your own situation.

People are so caught in a routine, doing the same things over and over.

I’m already the face of the UFC, plus the face of boxing, WWE, and Hollywood.

I’m just trying to be myself. I’m not trying to be anyone else.

Overnight business could go down enough to hurt; yet as a rule it slowly recovered-sometimes it seemed to take forever-went up, not high enough to be really up, only not down.

I learned that life will go through changes – up and down and up again. It’s what life does.

If the Arabs put down their weapons today, there would be no more ‎violence. If the Jews put ‎down their weapons ‎today, there would be no ‎more Israel’‎

Satire is fascinating stuff. It’s deadly serious, and when politics begin to break down, there is a drift towards satire, because it’s the only thing that makes any sense.

Never put anything past anyone. Stop expecting people to be as genuine as you are, it’s never the case & it will almost always be a let down.

Fiction is too complicated and too elusive to break down into a set of tricks.

If someone is trying to bring you down, it only means you’re above them.

When Jesus looked down from the cross, he didn’t think “I am giving myself to you because you are so attractive to me.”