I've been chasing some paychecks. Modeling. I don't discriminate against paychecks. I've got to pay the bills.

Compared to some other guys at 205, of course, I'll be a little small. But I've never tried to just physically go for it, bulk up, lift weights.

I'm very confident on my feet.

I was supposed to fight a guy back in the day. He didn't shower, specifically to throw off his opponents. Thank God I got injured, and I couldn't fight the fight. I was so worried about it. I was like, 'Oh my God - I heard about this guy.' It was the worst ever.

I think it's important to be subtle, sweet, and powerful.

My mom is, like, my biggest fan of my fight world, which is funny 'cause you'd think it'd be the opposite.

I've taken my beatings and learned how to get around and succeed against the big guys.

I think every fight helps for the next.

I'm not here to dance around. I'm here to fight for titles.

In fighting, when someone's signed up to fight me, I'm not humble. I've never been humble.

I'm in the pursuit of excellence. One foot at a time, one camp at a time.

To have the athletes weigh in on a stage, televised, it makes no sense. Holding us at weight to run us through medicals and a staging process, it lengthens the time we're depleting ourselves.

Men back up their words. Little boys run away.

I always believed in myself.

I defended my Strikeforce belt twice, and you didn't see me lose any of my intensity, drive, or motivation. That's just the way I am. I will always be hungry.

I always knew what I could do in there and believed that I would win the world title. But when it actually happens, when your dreams all come true, it is the culmination of a life's work. The feeling you get, I don't have words for it. I don't know how to describe it.

I get more relaxed. I get looser. I get more technical, I get faster, and you get to see way more of my game in the later rounds. In sparring, a lot of my best rounds are my third and my fourth. My fifth rounds are sometimes my best of all.

Aggression has proven to get people in trouble, in many ways, with the champions.

The highs and lows of Vitor Belfort, I would not want to be that guy. Be on top of the world getting all these 'knockouts of the night' and all these awards of the year and then all of a sudden get shunned into the shadows. He leads a shady life, and it seems like karma might be coming back.

I like fighting clean. I've always fought clean, and I want to fight clean people. I want to fight fair.

I'm not going to take off time and lose money to go fight.

I'm doing very well outside the cage.

I just don't see where Chris Weidman is going to threaten me. He's a tough guy, but I'm better on my feet, better on the ground. He's not going to threaten me with his wrestling.

People haven't seen the wars, in UFC, that I've had in Strikeforce and what I am capable of.

I'm going to show I'm the best fighter in the world.

I've met so many real heroes, people whose service has given me the life I'm lucky to live on U.S. soil.

I was never the bully: I was always the one trying to clean up the situation.

I have the will to win. I'll put my will up against anybody's any day.

If there's a skateboard in front of me, I can't help myself. I like to jump on.

I've got a lot of natural talent, and I'm not wasting it.

I love fighting. I want to fight, but there are principles in this game. You've got to have morals. I'm not just going to fight fights to fight to get nowhere.

There's no point in fighting guys when there's no structure, there's no rhyme or reason to who gets the title shot.

I'm not going to go fight the best guys in the world without getting championship fights or championship money; it makes no sense.

It can always be better, and you only live once, and I want to live the dream and some more.

The more I stack, the more things I can buy: the more toys, the more houses, and everything. That's the motivation, but I'm also a competitive person. I need goals, and I need that competition and to drive for something.

Being patient has made me a more precise fighter.

Bisping will fight to the bitter end but does not love the fighting.

I want to be great, not good.

I love the liver kick.

I've always been a powerful kid.

I used to get beat up by my brothers, and that kind of built me into the man I am.

I'm not knocking the other sports; I love other sports. There's a competitive and a technical level of them that I won't understand, probably, to a certain extent, but I've done a lot of other sports competing on college teams, and there's just nothing like fighting.

I'm a betting man. I like to gamble everywhere, everything I do.

I don't think I really have the respect that I think I deserve.

I want my rematch with Vitor Belfort, and I'd like it here in the States. And I'll go through anyone I need to get it, especially Michael Bisping.

I've had to take out a couple of loans; I'm not gonna lie. I want to pay off my debts. I want to start stacking some cash and set myself up for the future.

The people around me is the only reason why I survive: Bob Cook and DeWayne Zinkin.

I want to fight all the toughest guys in the world. I'm not trying to duck anybody or scared of anybody. I want to fight everybody.

There's nobody, pound-for-pound, that has what I have.

Cain has proven himself as the best heavyweight of all time, and it would be hard to strip him.