I respect the boss.

I think Khabib is going to take him down immediately, or create some kind of scramble immediately. I don't think Poirier stops his takedowns.

I watched the UFC way back in the day, before there were time limits. I always knew it's what I wanted to do some day.

I've wanted to - and have been - testing myself against the best guys in the world.

I'm not saying I'd walk through everybody. There's some great fights for me, though, and I'd put on a hell of a show with a lot of the fighters in the top 10. My pressure is second to none, and a lot of them don't have any way to prepare for what I'm going to be bring.

I had no idea if I could fight when I first started. My first four amateur fights, I had never even been punched in the face or trained of any kind.

Natural human instinct, reaction, whatever, is if you're perfect, you're going to try to skate by and get by, get away with things the easiest way possible.

I've been telling people I need to start smiling to my opponents and shaking hands and just being nice, so then when the bell rings, I catch them off-guard, because I used to catch people off-guard, but everyone's ready now.

I know plenty of wrestlers who are 15-0 and going nowhere.

I don't get hit a ton on the button.

I watch a little bit of tape to pick up small stuff, but I don't try to pick apart my opponent's game plan. I'm going to keep coming forward. I don't ever take a step backward. I get hit, and I'm right back into range.

False confidence is false confidence.

I'm very levelheaded.

I want to be the world champion.

Twenty-five minutes is a long time to stay focused. It's really something I had to work on to go in there and not get complacent for 2 seconds or 5 seconds or 1 second. That's all it takes.

Barboza is up there. He's a scary fight, but I like being scared. And that's a fight that me, as a fan, would want to see. I know how much fans would love something like that. So I'll go out there and try to finish that dude with leg kicks.

I do think I'm the best lightweight in the world.

Do I think people are sleeping on me? Absolutely.

When you fight me, you aren't going to be able to be so careful. They better block their face and knock me out. I'm going to hit them, kick them. I'm going to come forward. They'll have to run, literally run, backwards. That's the only way to get away from me. And eventually you're going to run into the cage.

I don't fight to win or lose. I fight to entertain people.

I was always sort of a competitor.

I got into wrestling when I was four years old.

I know that the only way I'm going to advance in this sport is to be exciting and to finish fights, and I'm fine with that.

I like to take chances.

I'm an entertainer.

I'm not infallible. Never will be.

People love the fact Chael Sonnen is saying he's undefeated. It's crazy to me that people like something like that but don't give respect to the fighters that just put it on the line.

I love the sport, I'm a fan of MMA, I've been a fan of MMA since before I started it, I was a fan of Eddie Alvarez before I started fighting, so just the culmination of events that have transpired in my life through hard work, through specifically hard work, it's just, I'm happy.

Skill wise, there's nobody that's gonna outwork me.

I want to take out the best in America, then I want to take out the best in the world.

I am a Division 1 wrestler.

When I'm done, I want to be known as the fighter that everybody wishes they could've seen live.

To be a superstar you have to win and you have to have something special. For me, I hope that knocking people out is my something special because I can't sell myself, per se, and become a different person on camera and a different person off camera.

I'm a great defensive wrestler.

I love reading comments online.

With the way I fight, the UFC's not stupid. For one, they probably know that they're don't have me forever.

From a business standpoint, of course I'm not gonna fight someone that's unranked or something like that.

If I'm going to get tired, I'd rather it be from fighting and not from wrestling.

Everyone knows I'm going to come in there and I'm going to stop your takedowns.

I praise World Series of Fighting, they gave me every opportunity I had, and at the end, they were totally professional and did everything they could to help me out.

I want the best money, and obviously the highest ceiling that you can be the best is in the UFC. But yeah, I praise Bellator. They gave me a great offer.

I want to go to Brazil, I want to fight top Brazilians in Brazil. I want to go to Russia, fight Khabib in Russia.

I want to prove I'm the best in the world.

It sucks to say it, but if I was to go out there and get outclassed by James Vick, I'd have to hang them up. He's not good, he's slow.

I'm so much better than James Vick.

I'm a coachable person. I don't like to lead myself. I've been taught by great people, and I was able to listen to them.

I want to be a fighter, this is what I love to do, but it's totally taxing on the body and the mind. Especially the mind.

Georges St-Pierre's doing it the best. He made his money, made his name, and now he's able to make money not fighting. That's what I want to do.

I know for a fact entertainment is more important than winning.

You only have to go on a couple message boards to know what the fans want, and the fans want you to put it on the line and to entertain them.