These kinds of fights, these big fights that get everyone talking and interested, these are the fights I want.

I want to fight only dangerous guys. Whenever I've done that in my career, I've stepped up and risen to the challenge.

I want the best guys the promotion has to offer, put them in front of me, and I'll beat them.

With MTV2, every fighter is exposed to millions of people, and they won't have to take a monster pay cut to do so.

Fighting, for me, is not a career - it's an opportunity. I'm going to take full advantage of it and do it as long as I can. As long as my body lets me and I'm healthy enough to do it naturally, I'll do it.

It's a fist fight - the idea is to go out there and impose my will.

The idea is to go out there and win in a dominant fashion. That changes people's minds, the way they're thinking about me, and lets people know I'm here to contend for a title.

I want to fight Gilbert Melendez.

I'm my own biggest critic, so no matter what was being said in the media or being said by fans, I feel the worst when I disappoint myself.

I enjoy fights the most once them nerves go away and you settle into the fight. That's when you can have your fun and be creative and just kind of be yourself.

Having your worst nightmares kind of come true is truly liberating.

Where most kids play stickball and hockey, I'd walk down the streets with two sets of boxing gloves and knock on my friend's door and see if he wanted to box. There were boxing gyms on every corner.

I think bullying in general is for cowards.

I'm a little unconventional; I do things a little differently.

I don't want to go that route where I'm going into fights dehydrated. I used to fight at 170 pounds. I was 10-0 at 170 with eight knockouts. I'm not going to listen to somebody from the outside tell me what weight I should be fighting at.

I rarely think that when a guy loses a fight, it's a weight issue. You can either fight, or you can't.

I've knocked a ton of guys out. I know the power I have and the advantages I have against the best in the world.

I know what I can do at 155.

I had to fight Donald Cerrone, Anthony Pettis, Gil Melendez, Rafael Dos Anjos. I had to fight these guys in order to prove myself in order to get a title shot.

Out of nowhere, they made an interim belt and had Lee fight Ferguson. This is very odd for me; what went on there? You know. I don't know what went on there.

The right thing to do is just ask what you can give, and then let things manifest in the time they're supposed to.

I won my first 10 fights by knockout. The money was getting larger at the same time.

I boxed. I did track and field; I did basketball, football, any sport I was able to sign up for.

The fights for me are always about what you cannot see, the intangibles. It's about what's inside - what really is inside.