“I grew up watching my mom and my stepdad fight.”

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.

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.

One of the biggest misconceptions I’ve had growing up is the belief that I cannot make a difference.

I’ve been made painfully aware of the difference in the day-to-day reality I’ve grown up and continue to live in.

He may never slay a dragon but he will grow old with you begging for death to leave you alone.

When I was growing up, I always knew I’d be in the top of my class in math, and that gave me a lot of self-confidence.

Part of growing up is letting certain things & people go no matter how much you love them.

I grew up in an environment where being polite was taken as a weakness. So I just fought everybody.

To grow up is to experience all sorts of heartaches & still manage to see the beauty in every pain.

I like the blues a lot. I grew up on it.