I want the best money, and obviously the highest ceiling that you can be the best is in the UFC. But yeah, I praise Bellator. They gave me a great offer.

I praise World Series of Fighting, they gave me every opportunity I had, and at the end, they were totally professional and did everything they could to help me out.

Everyone knows I'm going to come in there and I'm going to stop your takedowns.

If I'm going to get tired, I'd rather it be from fighting and not from wrestling.

From a business standpoint, of course I'm not gonna fight someone that's unranked or something like that.

With the way I fight, the UFC's not stupid. For one, they probably know that they're don't have me forever.

I love reading comments online.

I'm a great defensive wrestler.

To be a superstar you have to win and you have to have something special. For me, I hope that knocking people out is my something special because I can't sell myself, per se, and become a different person on camera and a different person off camera.

When I'm done, I want to be known as the fighter that everybody wishes they could've seen live.

I am a Division 1 wrestler.

I want to take out the best in America, then I want to take out the best in the world.

Skill wise, there's nobody that's gonna outwork me.

I love the sport, I'm a fan of MMA, I've been a fan of MMA since before I started it, I was a fan of Eddie Alvarez before I started fighting, so just the culmination of events that have transpired in my life through hard work, through specifically hard work, it's just, I'm happy.

People love the fact Chael Sonnen is saying he's undefeated. It's crazy to me that people like something like that but don't give respect to the fighters that just put it on the line.

I'm not infallible. Never will be.

I like to take chances.

I know that the only way I'm going to advance in this sport is to be exciting and to finish fights, and I'm fine with that.

I got into wrestling when I was four years old.

I was always sort of a competitor.

I don't fight to win or lose. I fight to entertain people.

When you fight me, you aren't going to be able to be so careful. They better block their face and knock me out. I'm going to hit them, kick them. I'm going to come forward. They'll have to run, literally run, backwards. That's the only way to get away from me. And eventually you're going to run into the cage.

Do I think people are sleeping on me? Absolutely.

I do think I'm the best lightweight in the world.