The soreness you feel after a fight or after a good battle, it's the best feeling in the world. You might sit and complain about it, but you feel so accomplished.

Very normal trajectory of a fighter's career - you start out fighting at the YMCA. You move on to the dog park. You get into a coliseum. On your way out, you go back to the YMCA, and then you finish up at the dog park.

The only thing more embellished than Floyd Mayweather's pay-per-view buys is Floyd Mayweather's net worth. But his spending habits are real.

People bring it up to me: 'Well, you're only in your spot because you can talk well.' Okay, first off, you could be right. But second, what - am I supposed to apologize for this? No.

Every time you win, you get another fight. Every time you get a fight, you get promotion, marketing, and media. Those things are what makes stars.

Fighting is an expression. It's a form of speech, and that's why they call it martial arts. It's an art.

One element of wrestling that I know what I grew up with we put a lot of emphasis towards was the takedown. But, you could win an Olympic championship and never score a takedown, and I don't know if MMA fans are even aware of that.

Wrestlers tend to do good in MMA because they tend to be just some tough guys. It's not a karate situation where they grew up their whole life punching the air; in a wrestling situation, you grab a hold of another human being every day.

The kind of wrestler that's going to do well in a combat style event like MMA is one that can explode through - doesn't need to spend time on the mat - hit his opponent, get him off his feet, and get on top quickly.

I'm not going to be one of the guys who hangs around if he doesn't have a road to the title.

I've had a lot of fights, and they haven't all gone my way.

When you go, 'Listen, I didn't know. I didn't know the rules.' That works. That's a good, solid defense. One time.

Whenever you can evoke a strong emotion and want somebody to tune in, whether it's to see you win or get beat up - and I've been on both sides of that - it's a win.

What you don't want is for somebody to not care. Whenever they have no feeling at all, that's bad. Even if they kind of like you or they kind of don't, that's also bad. It's got to be a strong emotion one way or the other.

For me, I prefer to be the heel.

I want to make the UFC money.

The UFC does not owe me a thing. Nothing. I am in debt to them.

I see a lot of people try to come out and copy me, duplicate me, and give it the old college try, but at the end of the day, there's only one Chael Sonnen.

If you call a Brazilian out publicly, you're going to be fighting that Brazilian. That's in their culture.

I'm not after the money or the fame. I'm after the world championship, and that's it.

I'm a wrestler, so I'm used to not being paid, and I'm used to doing five or six competitions a day and paying someone else to allow me into the event.

I train every day but Christmas. I'm not the guy who gets a contract signed and then trains for a fight. I'm at practice every single day, whether I've got a match or not.

I've suffered rib injuries, but I've never had a broken one. I've dislocated it and popped it, and even that, a big step down from broken, it hurts so bad. But you can't really move. You can't even fully breathe and take a deep breath of air.

I was never a bully; I would take on everybody at any time. Whether that was the No. 1 guy in the world or whether that was the No. 100 guy in the world, it didn't make any bit of difference. If somebody wanted to fight, I would show up and fight.

I will never hope to walk into a room and be cheered.

I'm OK with being booed.

I will not pretend to be something that I'm not. I certainly won't do it to win the audience over.

Every time you have a huge fight in wrestling, in boxing, in MMA, both guys are sure they're going to win. They really believe it.

Jose Aldo, this guy's a chicken. I can't even tell you how good Jose Aldo is, but he doesn't think it.

When Georges St-Pierre retired and Jon Jones was absent, I had Jose Aldo, the No. 1 pound-for-pound fighter in the world. That's how highly I think of him.

I wouldn't poke fun at someone if they were weak. I wouldn't bully somebody.

I'm not going to sidestep anybody, I'm not going to back down from anybody at any weight, and most importantly, I'm not going to pick on a guy who is weaker.

I think I can beat any man.

Nobody wants to fight Brian Stann. I'm not the only guy, and that's not a big secret.

I've got two 10-8 rounds against Anderson Silva. That's just the truth. I have no equal at middleweight.

I never receive backlash for my comments. I receive praise.

Jon Jones' skill set is unique. Jon Jones goes out there and does video game moves that the announcers can't even call because they've never seen them before.

Ronda's a very basic and straightforward fighter. However, she's a masterful competitor.

It doesn't matter if I'm a rival of Anderson Silva's or not; I'm also very objective. And I'm not going to take something from a guy that he earned. Anderson Silva earned the right to be called the greatest of all time. And those are just the facts.

Nobody breaks in a fight and comes back in the same fight. Once you break, you're done for the night. You've gotta go back. You've gotta shower up. You've gotta fly home. You've got to reassess, take three or four months, and try it again. But that Anderson Silva breaks in that fight, and still finds a way to win, is remarkable.

I didn't get to go to school functions growing up. I didn't get to go to dances. I was never invited to a party ever. Until I got to college and threw a party, I had never even been to one.

All sin and all crime comes from the same thing: 'I decided. I decided this was okay.'

We start to decline as humans and, particularly, as athletes right around 25 years old. If you're real lucky, you might push that to 27 or 28.

Guys always get jealous or envious of an opportunity, but they never wanna walk out to the mound and point to the crowd and tell them where they're going to hit the ball. I will. I'll call my shots.

I'm a huge supporter of Trump.

Sports are something that, for the most part, are for kids, and if you're able to extend your career, you're very lucky.

Because of both hipster culture and Facebook culture, the human race is starting to resemble a school of hairy piranhas.

I love the U.S.A.