Fighters don't just fight. Not the good ones who have long, long success. The guys who make championship runs. The guys who fight for world titles. They get fizzled out, chewed up and spit out like a revolving door and then the next guy or the next female comes in to take their spot.

MMA is not one of those up and down basketball seasons where you have a ton of games and you can still make the playoffs. It doesn't work like that in MMA. You get a couple losses, you get washed up, you get the door slammed behind you and they bring in the next person behind you who is here to take your place.

At the end of the day, I feel like I've never had an easy break in terms of opponents.

I always felt like the UFC brass kind of had it out for me.

I'm about fighting the best guys.

I'm not about trying to hand pick my fights and tip toe around the competition.

At the end of the day, Cejudo's a tough competitor but I think he's a flyweight.

My comfortability is always going favor the grappling side, that's the path of least resistance. But, I don't need necessarily need to force the takedowns like I used to before.

I bring the funk. It's a different style.

Even when I teach my MMA classes in the gym, it's hard to teach what I do. It's more of state of flow, a state of feel. It's not a robotic thing like one, two, three, kick, one, two, three, switch, jab, cross. It's completely unorthodox. Everything is about rhythm, tempo and pace. It's a different style, man.

I'm too long, I'm too rangy, I can box, I can kick, I can wrestle, I can do jiu-jitsu.

If we're just going to have contenders fighting just to fight, that doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Then I might as well just start jumping around divisions too because there's a lot of fun fights for myself in other divisions that I think I would love to entertain.

We're all fighting for a reason. We're not fighting to just fight. There's got to be some type of reward at the end of the rainbow and that reward is a big, shiny, UFC gold belt. That changes every fighter's life dramatically for the better.

It's the fight game. I'm ready for everything.

You can't keep a star from shining and my star's going to shine bright.

I'm a lot bigger than Faber, I'm pretty sure I'm a lot stronger than Faber and I'm pretty sure I'm a lot faster than Faber.

I got to the pinnacle of the sport for a reason and that's to make money. I didn't come here just to give handouts.

I fight for people's entertainment, but at the same time that entertainment comes at a cost.

I'm in this to change my life, to change my fortunes. I'm not in there to just fight for free.

It's MMA, man, the wild, wild west. You can just expect that anything can happen, and that's just where I'm at with things.

I like to put my money where my mouth is and go out there and perform and do what I gotta do.

I've never been one to shy away from a challenge and I've never been one to shay away from talking a big game.

You just take your hits on the chin and move on, that's life.

I want to be in my prime making the big money, enough money to put away so I can do something.