I'm not a matchmaker, I don't know the logic behind the decisions they make.

I've said it before, I'm not a matchmaker, I don't call the shots. I just prepare and fight the guys after I sign the contract.

Seven years is a long time, and seven years of fighting the best guys in the best organization in the world, the biggest organization in the world, it hardens you. You don't stay seven years without evolving. It doesn't happen.

That grit of fighting is addictive, I'm scared of it. It's a very weird thing.

My dream is to be the best fighter at 155 pounds in the world.

Fighting is what I do.

My father was a fighter. My grandfather was a fighter. It's just in my blood.

My whole career, the ups, the downs, the victories, the defeats, the lessons I've learned and kept rolling, that's what's made me the fighter I am today.

Any time Nate Diaz fights, I'm tuning in, I promise you.

I want to fight guys I'm excited to watch fight.

I'm not a small guy.

All weight cuts are hard.

Destiny doesn't make mistakes.

The champs are the guys who can do it the best, to lock it in for 25 minutes and do what they plan to do.

I have a pretty high fight IQ.

Just because I haven't fought wrestlers doesn't mean I'm not wrestling in every camp.

I'm not a frontrunner. I'm a complete fighter.

They had to re-shape the head of my femur back round. They had to trim my hip socket up a little bit. I had a lot of extra bone growth just from years of stressing it out. Because of that bone growth, it caused an impingement in my hip, which tore my labrum off the bone.

I just want fights like that. Fights that get me excited. Fights that are going to be exciting.

I'm familiar with adversity.

If I would have thought like fans think, I'd be broke and brain dead and fighting everybody every weekend.

Norman Parke needs to stay off of Twitter before he gets himself in a fight he can't win.

This is a business. I'm a professional athlete. This isn't, 'poke somebody and start a street fight.'

This isn't a Toughman competition; you don't just fight everybody because they want to fight.

Korean Zombie beat me, and I was prepared that night. He beat me, he beat me that night.

You can't just go in and say, 'I'm going to be tougher that you,' you know? Heavy bags are tough, but I've never been beat by one.

You have to be tough. All these guys are tough. But at some point, you have to outsmart and outhink and outplan these top fighters.

I was a born fighter before I got technical, and that's still in me.

I don't usually talk crap about guys.

I need to celebrate life because I'm in a good spot, I work hard, and I am happy with who I am and happy with what I do for a living, and sometimes I just focus and overwhelm myself so much with the fights and getting better, that I just need to slow it down and enjoy life and enjoy training.

My goal is to prosper and be a world champion and make money and retire and say I did it.

I feel like my wrestling and jiu-jitsu is so underrated.

Years and years ago, like in 2006, my wife, I didn't have a car, she would drive me to weigh-ins, we would sleep in broken-down motels and I would fight the next day. Just me and her.

I'm never going to go down to 145 again.

I don't see myself ever going up to 170.

When your body quits on you, it doesn't matter how mentally tough you are.

Nothing in my life was ever easy.

I really work hard to stay in great shape and make weight.

I want a rematch with Cub Swanson, I think I deserve to be 100 percent and fight.

I want the title. But these hands are working hands, and sometimes you've got to get them dirty.

The side of town, the side of Louisiana that I grew up on, there's a lot of poverty.

I've put it all on the line every time, win, lose, or draw, and that's what I want to be left behind in my legacy.

I never took the easy route.

I've always fought the best guys.

I've never pulled out of a fight. I've never missed weight.

Every fight, every camp I learn about myself and I get better. But every fight I get better.

I feel like I can submit Khabib, but feel like I'm going to stop him. I don't know how it's going to happen, but I'm either going to knock him out or I'm going to submit him. I'm going to finish Khabib Nurmagomedov.

I want to entertain the fans and put on great fights and have 'Fight of the Nights' and have exiting matchups, but at the same time I want to be the undisputed world champion.

I don't want to have an asterisk next to my accomplishments for the rest of my life. I don't want everybody to say, 'interim champ' every time someone says Dustin was the champion.

Of course, every time I get beat out there, I want to avenge those losses. I'm sure every fighter does.