Being able to go forward has been good, you know? I'm lucky to have that ability, to pressure guys and make them falter and wilt.

If you value your wins and you value what you've done over the course of your career, then you wouldn't want people harboring over a loss, even though you fought extremely well.

I want to be regarded as the best guy in the world, and I want to beat the best guy in the world.

How can you train if you're constantly worried about getting injured?

Cain's an animal, man. Cain's a competitor. I want to spar with Cain because I know if I'm able to hang with him here in the gym, once I get out there in the cage and fight, I mean, I've already gone toe-to-toe with Cain Velasquez, you know?

I've always had a chip on my shoulder. It kind of drives me. It's something that allows me to train harder, train longer, work better.

Just being in the gym every day with someone with goals in common is special.

I'm confident in my team. I'm confident in my coaches. I'm confident in my ability. I worked really hard to become a better mixed martial artist.

As a champion and one of the best fighters in the world, guys should always step up to the plate and want to fight Jon Jones.

I have definitely worked on that... being efficient and also being smarter with my pressure.

You've got to be all-in on this sport; you can't be one foot out the door.

I'm not a guy that really likes to pile onto somebody. Doesn't really matter who it is.

I'm not really worried about what Anthony Johnson does. I have to worry about what I do to prepare myself.

I've done nothing but show up and fight, go to work inside the Octagon, outside the Octagon, and do things right. But people want to talk about me and discredit me.

I think that Amanda Nunes and Julianna Pena and Valentina Shevchenko... they've showed how much this level has gone up in female fighting in a very short period of time.

I usually fight a lot. 2015, I fought three times. I fought three of the best guys in the entire world.

My confidence comes from me, not from Jon Jones. I can't draw my confidence from another person.

If there's an opportunity for me to compete at something, I'm there.

Who I have fought and how I have fought, it says something about me.

People always get confused. They talk about coaches. The reality is, these coaches and managers that everybody thinks are in so much control, they work for us. They're our employees.

I have to be smart. You cannot be going in there, trying to go forward and pressure guys, and be taking damage and getting hurt on the way to doing it.

It's unfair to think that we can do what we do with the intensity that we do it and expect injuries to not happen.

My resume, my career, and my legacy in this sport means more to me then collecting some checks.

When you start fighting, when your dream is to be the champion of the world, when you accomplish that, you don't feel lost. It doesn't hinder you. It only helps.