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Conor changed the game and he paved the way. He did those big numbers and I'm one of the guys who is going to carry that forward.
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I was an oddball in kickboxing because of my style. I'm different. I'm fleet-footed and I understand how to move and work the system.
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Fighting is worldwide. Fighting is fighting, everyone understands what it is.
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I've said this before, I would fight my grandmother if I had to. And she's dead.
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If I ever feel like I need to see someone to help me adjust to whatever life situation I'm seeing, I'll go. You're sick. When you're physically ill, you go to the doctor. It's the same thing about your mental. If you feel you're starting to get sick, you go see someone who can help you.
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Look at all the champs over time once they get the belt - they just fall off. I'm not one of those guys. The belt isn't my ultimate prize, it just looks good with all my other gold, chains, and diamonds.
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My least favorite thing or my pet peeve would be people who literally ignore the other people you're with, or the situation, and they just dive right in and cut off the conversation.
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Staying in the moment is something I'll never achieve unless I'm hanging out with the right people and just being in the gym as well.
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I'm a guy that, if I see people running away from something I'm like, 'Why you running away? What's over there?'
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Put it this way, people in my position in the UFC, their coaches couldn't tell them to sweep the mats because some people feel like they're better than that. I'm not one of those people. No matter how I am on camera, people who really know me, who know my soul, know I keep that same energy. So ain't nothing change but the change.
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I've done it in kickboxing, I've done it in boxing. After you clean out a division, you move up in weight.
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They don't really teach you how to be famous and a lot of people don't realise that this game comes with a lot of traps. So I'm just looking after myself, looking after my health and making sure I don't fall into those traps.
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Even when I was fighting in China I met some guys on the local circuit that we're fighting, they didn't enjoy it, they wanted to be musicians and do other things, but they're just fighting because it pays the bills and they get money for it.
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I know what I bring to the table, I know my work. That's why I'm able to push for what I want.
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Kids will tell me 'oh I want to be like you when I grow up,' you know. I just thought 'nah, don't be like me, be like you,' because first of all they don't really know me but second of all I understand what they're trying to say but I just let them know - be like you.
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I've already made my own mistakes in this game, even in the UFC. I'm just smart about how I make mistakes.
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The amount of work we have to do to get to that Octagon, we should be getting paid what we're worth.
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Aang is an Airbender, and he became the Avatar after the last one died. He has to realize his destiny as the Avatar by mastering all of the elements - earth, fire and air. For me, I feel like I'm mastering all the different styles or elements of MMA. It's my destiny to become the Avatar of this game.
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I am not going to be one of these guys who doesn't defend his belt. I am going to defend my belt actively.
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Kelvin Gastelum, there's many ways I can classify his style. I like it. He's improved. One thing I can say is that he's improved over his run in the UFC from 'The Ultimate Fighter' and now being a contender. But his style? It's very Mexican. You have the Mexican style of boxing, and he has a Mexican style of MMA, like smart Mexican style.
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I get really aggravated if I don't train, if I don't let that testosterone out.
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There doesn't need to be hatred after a fight, because it's all said and done. I'm cool with a lot of my opponents in the UFC. There's people I've fought who were my friends in kickboxing tournaments and after we were still cool.
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A lot of guys just can't handle the spotlight and the pressure, so they shy away from it, like 'oh, I don't want to be in it.' That's never me.
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A fighter walks in the room and people are like 'oooo' because everyone is trying to be a tough guy.
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Uriah Hall, you ever play that game Tekken where you just button bash? I always think that's what he looks like. He's just button bashing and hoping something cool will come out of it.
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If you visibly compromise someone or hurt someone, or hurt their vision, you're not supposed to still just stand there and wait for them to come to you.
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I've been a heavyweight in boxing, in kickboxing. I'll do it in again in MMA.
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I'm not trying to be one of those guys that's bigger than everyone else in the weight class.
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Coming up in this country, I've seen it so many times. When you see somebody rising you want to tear them down because you feel inadequate and you want to call it humble.
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It's about legacy, it's about moments, it's about being an icon - I'll do what I do and the money will flow.
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They say to never underestimate anyone, but they don't tell you to overestimate people either, so I'm just going to do me.
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Look at rugby, the national sport, you have guys weighing 130kg, 140kg, who can run like sprinters full clip into each other causing brain damage constantly on that field.
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I tried so many times to fit in but I could never ever fit in. I was always like, an outcast.
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