The time is always right to do what is right.

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

My father is from the village of Beranci, Macedonia, and my mother is from Greece.

My surname Volkanovski comes from my father's side, so I have many Macedonian supporters and I really appreciate it.

Being in UFC is a great promotion for me because I have more fans from all over Australia.

My right-hand hit is my favourite.

I wrestled before rugby league so I always had a pretty good wrestling background, a good base, and that helped with my football. It just meant my balance was always so good; a strong core, good hips and just things like that just really played a factor in how I ran the ball and tackled.

My last year of football I started having a couple of MMA fights, and bringing the weight down. It started in the pre-season of football, just to keep fit, and I did really well.

I used to play in the front row, I could eat whatever I want - but I got up to 97 kilograms. And let's remember I'm five foot bloody nothing!

I didn't think I could make the NRL, but I was confident in myself that I could make the UFC.

I made promises to myself and my family that I'd be in the UFC before my first daughter was born, that didn't happen. I was almost at breaking point a week before I got that contract, I was going to go back to concreting - that weekend I get my major sponsor, which was huge, and I end up getting my UFC contract the weekend after that.

I've always been a sort of goer.

I used to wrestle when I was younger. It was soccer, wrestling, rugby league and now MMA.

Robert Whittaker has really opened eyes, look what he's doing.

It's definitely tough when people don't believe in you. Actually, that's wrong. It's not that they don't believe in you. They just care. A lot.

I've never been here to simply compete.

My dad's Macedonian, mum Greek... so for as long as I can remember, my uncles have talked about our warrior blood.

One of my biggest fan bases is probably Macedonians, they always get behind me. They're always hitting me up on Facebook speaking Macedonian to me which I don't understand, so I get my dad to translate it for me.

I've been on magazines in Macedonia and all things like that.

I was never planning on just making the UFC, I was always planning to be champion.

Ground and pound is my thing, everyone knows that.

I'm always my hardest critic.