If you want to be the best, you've got to beat the best. The only problem is when I get that belt, who's going to be left to fight? That's what I want to know.

You don't have to get ready if you stay ready, alright? I'm always in the gym, always training, all the time.

The only thing I can do is fight. Win or lose, I'm here every damn time.

I live a wild and crazy life.

I thought I would be laying hardwood floors in Colorado - a construction worker. Middle class or working class, that's where I was! I just fought because I loved it. It was so fun! Being able to go in there and outthink your opponents.

I'm not trying to be anything other than the way I was born and raised.

The opponent never matters to me. That's something I've always said.

I eat a lot of candy. I can't survive without candy.

I just fell in love with the cowboy way of life.

Sometimes you just don't show up, and in our profession, it's a bad day.

Bull riding is fun, but fighting is it.

Put 'Cowboy' on every card. I'd be ready to go.

Jose Aldo, he's a stud, and I would be honored to be in there to throw down with him.

I made it this far eating fruit roll-ups and having soda pop and having fun. I feel like I tried changing that to do like everyone says I should, and I just feel better being me.

Who am I to say CM Punk is a joke?

Why not drive a snowmobile? I own an Artic Cat. We bought them because we enjoy doing things like that. I enjoy doing fun things, and that's definitely one of the things.

I don't even know who Michael Chandler is.

It's a relaxed intensity I've got to live my life in.

They aren't going to take my guns. I have 44 guns, and they aren't going to take my guns.

That Evan Dunham fight, I went back to not being serious. I was going to the lake and literally brought some wrestling mats down with me. We have a shop at the lake where we park the boat. I'd throw the mats in there, wakeboard all day, and train all night. I was having a good time, getting back to work.

You ever try to beat your dad up? It just don't happen. He's got that old man strength.

I enjoy fighting. It's one of my favorite things to do in the world, so I'm just enjoying every minute of it.

I took up scuba diving, and my next big thing is BASE jumping.

I've never pulled out of a fight, never not showed up to fight, so injured or not, I'm coming.

People ask me, 'Why don't you take time off?' but the working class doesn't take time off. They're out there working every day. That's what I do, too. I want them to know there is hope, and I'm out there just like they are.

I just love to be out on the lake, wakeboard, surfing, just playing, man.

You're not just top-10 UFC because you suck.

I just take the fights and do what I love.

To be honest I quit taking training and fighting so seriously and went back to living my life and having fun. I try to teach that to all the guys who come out here to train and live with me.

Is there any hungry fighters out there that say they don't get paid enough by the UFC? I tell you what: Cowboy's got the answer. Sign on the line. I don't care where you're at on the roster. Let's go.

If you're in the UFC, you're one of the baddest dudes around.

I love fighting as much as I can and as often as possible.

I'll fight on Fight Pass; it's all the same to me.

You've got to know what you put in your body. That's it.

Fighting's not me - it's just something that I do.

People get all caught up thinking they have to train a certain way or take a certain approach to things, but there's so much more to this than fitting into what other people think you are supposed to do. You have to have fun and enjoy what you are doing; otherwise, what is it all worth?

When I fought Benson Henderson for the first time, or Jamie Varner, it was always like, 'Oh man... I'm in here fighting these guys. Do I really belong here?' That's all changed now.

The young guys keep me motivated. Youngsters coming up behind me.

I want to be a professional wakeboarder.

They need to enforce how and who to give guns to. But there are Americans like me who are responsible, and they shouldn't take that away. If they outlaw guns, they won't take mine.

You see all the movies where people say, 'Don't fight out of anger'? They say that for a reason.

Wrestling is something I feel really confident in now.

Milk Duds and Hot Tamales are what I love.

I am never more or less motivated for a fight - it's always the same.

A great fight that I'd love is B.J. Penn. That would be so awesome. He's a veteran of the sport. He's fought everywhere.

I want the belt. Always.

There is nothing more I love more than being in a throw-down on a Saturday night.

I don't take much pride in fake fighting.

I want all of the blue collar American working class people to know that I'm out there fighting for them.

I didn't really have intentions of fighting in MMA; it just kind of fell into place. Once I started fighting, though, I loved it, and I walked away from kickboxing right away.