“You might be tough, but you can only be so tough for so long, you know what I mean? The brain can only take so much damage. The body can only take so much damage.”

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

My goal is to be number one in MMA.

The thing about the truth is, not a lot of people can handle it.

My unpredictability is what separates me. If you move in so many ways, your opponent is not focused on what he’s doing. He’s focusing in on what you’re doing, and it freezes him. When they freeze and you hit, they shatter like glass.

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

I’m just looking to learn, grow, stay focused, and become a better fighter and a better athlete.

There is definitely an addiction to money that I have.

I don’t feel bitterness, I don’t feel anger towards anybody. Fighting is never emotional to me.

When I do something, I do it full steam ahead.

From the moment I open my eyes, I’m trying to free my body. I’m trying to get looser, more flexible, to gain control. Movement is medicine to me.

I’ve always felt like there was a lot of hype around me even when there wasn’t. I felt like everyone was talking about me even when no one was talking about me.

I will fight in many weight divisions.

I carry the flag of Ireland all the time. I want to represent my country.

I think it’s an Irish thing. We don’t really care. We say it as we mean it, and you have to deal with it. The truth is the truth.

I’ll die a crazy old man!

I don’t look at a man who’s expert in one area as a specialist. I look at him as a rookie in ten other areas.

What if I told you your damage doesn’t define you and the way you survive is no one’s damned business?

Pain or damage don’t end the world.

Your body is not a first aid kit for broken people and damaged souls and hearts that are too tired to fix themselves.

Did you really think she was a tender flower you could trample upon, and damage her very soul? She is wildfire. And she is coming to devour you whole.

You are damaged and broken and unhinged. But so are shooting stars and comets.

I was in my mid-40s. I was a bulimic, and I realized if I continue with this addiction of mine, I will not be able to continue doing my life. The older you get the more damage it does; it takes longer to recover from a binge. And it was very hard.

When there is a crisis, the first thing that gets damaged and gets harmed is democracy.

Art is very mysterious. I wonder if you can really do any damage to art. I think that when we’re writing, something comes through or should come through, in spite of our theories. So theories are not really important.