If you want to be the champ, you've got to beat the champ.

I was in jail a couple of times, and I was probably heading back there for a long time. But martial arts saved my life and some of the choices I made with it.

Home was never a safe place for me. I felt safer on the streets.

Cheating is nothing to be proud of.

I don't want to be remembered as just some tough guy who could take punches.

A few months before my dad died, his eyes had started to go, and his skin was turning green. When he finally went to hospital, he was diagnosed with late-stage pancreatic cancer. None of us kids knew why the old man ignored the doctors and refused their help, but none of us were surprised, either.

Your mind is the most powerful weapon you have.

I'm always going to say I'm going to knock someone out.

I couldn't believe that talk about Jon Jones fighting Lesnar - that would have zero legitimacy. In society, we punish people that do bad things. Why isn't it the same in fighting?