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.

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.

I want to be the world champion.

I'm very levelheaded.

False confidence is false confidence.

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.

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

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

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.

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 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.

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

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 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 respect the boss.

When you win, you get to pick someone in front of you to fight.

When I sat down and knew I was going to go to the UFC, I thought of Edson Barboza and I almost had a panic attack. And then right away I called my manager Ali Abdel-Aziz. I said, 'Ali, that's the fight I want.' I think it's the worst fight in the lightweight division for me, the scariest.

I owe it to myself to not sell myself short by taking a pay cut just to go to another organization.

You will regret not seeing me fight live.

My timing and pressure is the definition of MMA.

I should never be trying to avoid something in a fight, especially something I'm good at.

I've been saying I'm the best in the world for a long time.

I wanted to take the short road to the top, and I think I'm doing that.