I like to fight tough fights.

I don't know how to do takedowns.

All of my fights, especially all of my UFC fights my whole career, I've never been in there without any kind of impingement and pain wrong with my back.

I'll fight anyone.

The sport itself is dangerous. Anything can happen.

Travis Browne don't know what's he thinking. Travis, he's out there, man. That guy has been knocked out so many times, he's been rocked so many times, he don't know what to say.

Like a lot of people have said, it's not a bad loss to lose to Mark Hunt, so it's really like a learning lesson.

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.

Brock Lesnar is not a fighter. He's scared to be hit.

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 don't fight just because I love it just that much. I'm fighting because it's a job for me.

I'm fighting just so I can take care of my family.

I'm serious, I don't stay in the gym each day like my opponents.

I go into every fight with a bad back and overweight and a damn-near diabetic.

You eat salad and you're hungry the next 30 minutes and you're hungrier from when you ate the damn salad.

I'm not scared to fight anyone, I'll call anyone out.

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 go in to fight just to fight. I don't care about submissions, the technique and all of that.

I tell people all the time that it would be good if they forget about me next week, that they don't even mention my name anymore.

This heavyweight division, it takes just one punch for anyone. It doesn't matter how hard you train or what.

I just like being in fun fights.

I hate being in boring fights. It frustrates me.

You have 20 fights, you should know what it takes to get yourself ready. If you don't feel like you're ready, you let your coach know 'hey we need to work on a little bit more of this.'

I just feel that all the top fighters in the world are making all the money.

I believe I get the belt then I'll get the money. I'm not trying to be the best fighter in the world. It's all about the cheddar.

I wanted to start in boxing, but you have to train a little harder to be a boxer. A lot of those guys can take punches. MMA, you only have to hit someone so hard to knock them out.

My heart outweighs all the talent. If they've got more talent, I believe that my heart will still overcome that. You've got to have heart to step inside the octagon anyway.

I have a couple of properties. Bought some houses and just rent them out.

I've been in that situation many times before - where I'm losing and I have to knock a guy out.

I know I only need one punch to knock any guy out.

I've been in that situation three or four times before where I'm losing the fight - the fight seems almost over with - and I knew I had to finish him and stop playing possum as much.

I know I'm the least technical guy in the sport. Most of the champions or guys at the top are real martial artists.

I really don't like watching women fights.

Whatever the UFC wants to pay me for, that's fine.

I really don't punch with my left hand anyways.

I just really want to put the past behind me, because it makes me angry thinking about it. But it's also the reason I've made it this far in my career. It's like, built up in me. It's what I think about when I fight. My childhood.

I look at all my opponents, and they could be something else. They could go out and get a normal, regular job. I look at myself and I can't do that. I have a strike on my back. I can't have a normal job. So, I've got to fight for everything I've got.

I just have a crazy sense of humor.

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.