It doesn't matter to me who the opponent is, I'll be ready in all areas.

I want the belt. I'm focused on the belt, I'm focused on the world championship belt.

My plans are to avenge my loss against Volkan Oezdemir and get the UFC title.

The last few weeks are always the hardest during any fight camp.

When you're in a fight camp, you're working your body harder than normal and it's important to still look after yourself and to relax.

Massages and swimming are feel-good activities which are both mentally and physically relaxing.

Fighting isn't an ordinary career, so you have to allow your body time to recover in between training sessions.

But the thing about Brazilian fans is that they respect top fighters and I will win them over. When my hand is raised I believe they will cheer for me.

I think everyone knows that I keep myself to myself and I don't get involved in trash talk or anything else.

I'm happy I found discipline, something I love, and I also found God.

I expect whoever gets in a UFC Octagon to put on a great show, because that's why we're there.

When I started fighting I've always thought about being a UFC champion.

In the UFC, nothing is guaranteed. Anything can happen when it comes to getting a title shot.

Brad Pickett is one of the coolest guys in MMA and someone I have a huge amount of respect for.

Some fighters enjoy the limelight. I get nervous, I mess up when I'm trying to explain things, because I'm a fighter pure and simple, and not really a talker.

If an MMA fighter is going to call out a boxer it's got to make sense.

It never is a boring fight with me fighting.

Yeah, like '300,' I've probably watched it 300 times. It's one of my favourite films. I've just finished watching 'Spartacus,' another great series. I relate a lot to those kind of films. I think most fighters should relate to those films. It just seems natural. I am Spartacus, I am Leonidas, I am the lead role in those films.

I am who I am and I tune my training to the fighter I am.

How I fight is what got me into the UFC in the first place.

I'm not one to call people out, if you look at my history in the fighting game, I've never called anyone out.

I always predict a knockout. That's what I go for, I hit to hurt.

But when you're cheating against your fellow athletes, that's something I can't forgive.

For whatever reason, I've always been able to hit very hard.

And I took to fighting very well. I'm a fast learner, and I needed to learn quickly. I knew this was what I wanted to do and I put everything I had into it.

I ruptured my bicep tendon in a sparring session.

I can definitely get the belt. It's something I always wake up believing every time I train.

I'm a bit rusty when it comes to football.

It's always great fighting in front of familiar faces and not having to travel and deal with jet-lag and all of that stuff.

I just love putting on a show for my fans.

Daniel Crawford, who was BAMMA featherweight champion, used to train with me.

Stylistically, every fight in the division is a hard fight. Lyoto Machida is unorthodox, Jon Jones is long and tall with good wrestling, Ryan Bader has good wrestling. You can't pick one and say, 'I want to fight him.'

When you're away from home for a fight camp it's the simple things that you miss the most. For me, that's laying on the sofa with my daughters and spending quality family time and small things like that.

The most important thing is to stay fresh - physically and mentally - and to also avoid injury of course.

I'm a 'come forward' kind of guy, I will never fight any other way and I don't think I could learn anything different either.

To me a fight is a fight, it's not a contest or a martial arts competition, it's a fight.

The fear of losing motivates me, and that's it.

The London fans know what I bring to the table. Destruction.

It's easy to say when you're on the outside and when you're the coach or for people to say, 'Oh, you should have done this, you should have done that.' But when you're in there in front of thousands of people and you get hit and you want to win the fight, it's totally different.

MMA has improved my life leaps and bounds.

As soon as I found MMA, I knew that this is what I wanted to do, and it gave me focus because I was good at it anyway, and it gave me a goal to reach. I kept winning my fights, and it's given me a goal and a career opportunity.

I don't think there's anyone who strikes like me in the world.

I don't care where I am in the rankings or anything like that - I just want a UFC belt.

It's all about experiences and taking positives from each fight, even if it was a loss.

Every fight is a must-win for me.

David Haye was the perfect opponent for me because he was a small heavyweight with a big name and we were about the same size.

I can't think of any heavyweights that would match up well with me. They're all too big.

I'm a knockout artist.

I'm not bothered about where I'm ranked in the world. I'm just worried about fighting the best people in the world and being a natural, original champion.

There's not so many 'big names' in cruiserweight that would interest me.