My wife is married to a part-time husband. That's hard to do. The kids get the short end of the stick, too.

Yeah, I like going away for camp. It brings out the savagery.

Coming into community college, I wasn't sure of where I wanted to go in my future.

Eric Knuutila had a big impact on my wrestling career.

You know, MMA doesn't need New York, New York needs MMA. And I say that with all due respect to New York.

For me I think the pressure Chael Sonnen brings is hard to match with his offense, takedowns, ground and pound, hand in the face and dropping elbows and shots. It kind of wears down a fighter.

Chicago is like a New York City. It's one of the those older cities. It really means something to fight there.

I didn't really realize that I could make it into a career until midway through the 'Ultimate Fighter' show when I started beating guys who had been training in the sport for a really long time.

I wouldn't have won anything without Bill Dixon.

Eric Knuutila was one of those coaches who I could tell who cared, who went the extra mile, who made sure that it wasn't just about getting me on the mat and wrestling.

I didn't grow up with my father in my life, and that bred a resentment in me, and it bred a mentality in me that made me very angry.

I'm one of those athletes, I compete better for coaches that I have a lot of love and respect for.

I got Rampage's style down so good I am even wearing my dog's chain!

Getting the title shot was huge.

I give a lot of credit to my training partners and to my coaches. Both Greg Jackson and Michael Winklejohn are amazing.

I don't want to go out losing. But at the same time, it's what I need. It's what I need to do because I feel like I have other things in life that are calling me to do, to go to.

At one point in my life, I felt as if fighting was everything. It was everything. I put life second.

I grew up so poor and now I have an opportunity to provide for my family in a way that I never imagined. I take that in consideration and try to exploit every single opportunity because when it's over it's over, there are no redos.

It's sad because I worked so hard to be able to provide for my kids and give them a better life than I ever had for myself but I can't give them the one thing which they really need more than anything, and that's me.

I won't fight Thiago Silva. I won't fight Cezar 'Mutante' Ferreira. I won't fight anybody who I train with.

There's a lot of reasons I didn't perform the way I could have in college. Going to college, I was a new parent, I lived in another state. I just wasn't mentally into it when I was in college.

Everyone's talking about Phil Davis and what he did in college. It's an accomplishment to win an NCAA title. I don't want to discredit that. But I believe if I would have wrestled him in college, I would have beat him.

I've trained with real, world-class wrestlers.

I try to stay away from high sodium and high sugar.