My job is to hit somebody until the referee pulls me off.

I'm a dirty south goon - damn right, I ain't no West coast gangster.

In every fight the strategy is to baptize and take their soul - that's always the strategy.

My mom would get up every day at 4 A.M. and worked two jobs. I always felt I was the poorest kid on the block. I had a chip on my shoulder about being broke.

I'm the type of guy if you say something right now, whenever I see you, I'm going to hold you to that.

This is a sport of a lot of knowledge, of knowing yourself well, knowing your soul and your spirit, your abilities both physically and mentally.

Nobody is taking my lunch money.

I never care about my opponents, especially now - I care about 'Gamebred' and 'Gamebred' is only going for the off button.

When I get anxiety and depression and things like that, I take to eating.

I always cheer for my MMA brothers and sisters.

I'm not a sock-em, rock-em type of guy.

I've never tapped in my whole entire career.

I move my head. I don't get hit.

At any given moment, if I see my bully, the guy who's trying to conquer me, we're going to find out. And if we could fight every time we came across each other, we would.

I just want to fight the best guys that there is in the world and make the most money out of it.

I've got a big buzz going on because I'm known and put people to sleep.

My coaches know when it's a big fight, I'm at the gym because if they give me some pretender, another actor, I might not take it.

Ben Askren had never been knocked out when I got a hold of him.

I feel like if they added a few weight classes it wouldn't change up the dynamics of the sport. You can still have champions and it wouldn't be like boxing. Boxing got messed up, because they've got so many belts, so many unifications. It's crazy.

My body of work speaks for itself.

I don't come from this technology world.

A fight is usually longer than five seconds.

I don't want any up-and-coming guys. I want someone that's established already, that's good.

Usually with my opponents, I don't care if they win the lottery or they die.

I'm here to compete and to keep beating people up.

Not that everybody needs to be Georges St-Pierre, but it would be cool if everybody was just themselves.

I used to be a 55er, Conor used to be a 45er. I'm naturally a 70 pounder, Conor's probably a natural 55er. I'm a small 70 pounder though and Conor's a decent-sized 55er so the size is not that much. It's not incomparable.

It's a blessing and a curse. I feel like I've gotta fight every dude that stepped foot on 'The Ultimate Fighter.'

I want to put money away in the bank.

I've never pulled out of a fight.

I want the biggest fight, no matter where it's at.

My body fat at 173 is five percent, so the rest is just straight water that I lose.

When you're up-and-coming in your career, yes, maybe you have to dodge certain guys. 'Hey, my wrestling isn't good yet, let me get it on-point and then I'll come back there,' or, 'I'm not going to fight that guy right now,' because whatever, when you're up-and-coming. But once you're already at the top of your game, you're in there, man. That's it.

I'm not involved in too many wars, where I'm just constantly getting hit, hit, hit.

Man, I never got to fight a ranked opponent at 155, and that wasn't because I wasn't winning.

You guys might not know who Yves Edwards is, if you don't, shame on you, go do some research.

I've got more mat hours than most of the guys who are grapplers got on the mat.

Back in the day, you used to have to fight three or four fights in one night with no dodging nobody, and that's what the sport got built on.

I've been fighting in people's backyards my whole life.

I just like to fight, man. The place doesn't really bother me.

The more I tour the world, the more I see that people are just like me. They love violence.

The bigger the fight, the better.

Nobody has ever wanted - they get forced to fight Yoel. Ask anybody.

A lot of times I went to sleep hungry, and not because I was cutting weight for a fight.

I can box. I can hit hard. I've got different angles.

I grew up in Miami, Florida.

I do not want to fight Woodley because we're cool. We've worked out so much together, and he's looked out for me in the past with certain hookups that he had at the time. So I don't want to fight that dude.

I didn't get a lot of questions asked earlier in my career, I guess. But I've always been the same guy, more or less.

It's simple, I'm a fighter, but on top of that I have to entertain the people.

I'm a guy who's in there everyday with world-class grapplers feeling that pressure.