I happen to have a college education and I never planned on being a fighter.

A lot of people say I'm reckless and I take too many shots. I take shots on the forehead. There's nothing wrong with that. It puts me in punching range.

This is entertainment business and I fight for money.

I'll worry about things I can control.

It's life or death for me every single time I step in the cage.

I just like punching loudmouths in the face.

I'm not an idiot.

Humans recognize effort, and that's what I do. I give max effort.

Working in a juvenile detention center, being a probation officer for at-risk youths, I'll do something like that. Something nice and stable.

I could lose and it could be the best fight ever, it still does great things for me.

I wrestled Jordan Burroughs two times - Jordan Burroughs had a hell of a time trying to take me down. I stopped his double leg numerous times. And he also, probably, fractured my sternum - from me trying to stop him.

There's not a lot of people that can sit there and take the punishment that I can deliver.

You have to learn how to fight through when it sucks and it's really hard.

I have a human services bachelors degree and I want to work social work, I want to work with at-risk youth.

I'm trying to be as real as I can and I'm being myself. I'm not gonna create an act.

I went to college, I wrestled and I took some amateur fights. When I graduated, I wanted to start using my degree, but I figured I would start fighting professionally. Then I won 18 in a row and I fought Eddie Alvarez on pay-per-view.

I am a Division I All-American wrestler, but I wrestled college wrestling matches, seven minutes long. If I was to go in there and wrestle for seven minutes of a fight, a 25-minute fight, you're not getting nothing out of me for the rest of the time.

I win and lose in one way. And that's either putting them to sleep or putting it on the line and going to sleep.

I feel like the guitar playing gives me rhythm with my punches - really helps to change up my jab.

I know I'm always ready when I jump into the ring.

It always excites me to meet new family members. I'd like to meet them all someday.

It's a quality you need to be a world champion; you have to have that killer instinct.

Charles Martin, we watched him. He won the IBF championship of the world, but we don't think he is anything special.

I love meeting people.