I've dealt with a lot in my life.

My little girl's in Heaven. She's my angel, and I can draw from that.

I don't mind playing spoiler.

Ovince Saint Preux needs to know that not only me but every other guy at the American Kickboxing Academy are ready and open to open those doors in trying to help him accomplish his goals.

I know what I've done, and I know who I am.

I had a really dark time after the Olympic Games... But then I said to myself, 'This is a sport that's blessed me with a home, with an education, with some money. I can't hate this sport. This sport took me out of Louisiana. This sport gave me a chance when so many people don't get a chance. And I love this sport.'

I need to be competing. Coaching is good, but I like to be in the fire.

I'm so bad at baseball, I can't even hit now.

I was into basketball, but then once I found contact sports, it was over. I never played basketball again in my life.

I've always been a rough kid.

If you're the UFC champion, you're the best in the world at what you do, and I get the opportunity to do that.

If I would have won that Olympic gold medal, I would have gotten a job somewhere coaching at a university, and I would be totally content with my life.

I'm not on a slander campaign to ruin Jon Jones publicly. That's not what I set out to do.

I was a fan of Jon Jones. I thought he was great.

I want to be the best.

If I didn't have the wrestling name that I have, I wouldn't have gotten the financial contract that I got with Strikeforce or the long-term contract or the television contract. That's all because of wrestling.

My low center of gravity allows me to defend takedowns a lot better than most people. It's very hard to get to my legs. It's going to be really hard to take me down. There are a lot of positives to being my size.

If you say John Smith is the greatest wrestler in Oklahoma history, now that's big.

Wrestling is a hard sport, but it's only a sport.

In my opinion, whenever you get two guys who want to fight each and two guys who want to be in a good fight, you let them fight.

There are ways to win fights, and sometimes you don't always choose the easiest way to win a fight.

When I watch Rumble Johnson, he's a bully. He bullies guys. He makes them go backward, and he traps them. I'm not going to allow that. If he tries to bully me, I'll stand right in front of him, and if he hits me, I'll hit him right back. And then we'll see how the bully handles it when nobody is going to run away from him.

I'm honored to be one of the guys that is seen as a leader of this great team - a team that has stood the test of time. AKA is one of the only teams that has been around since the beginning of the MMA explosion, and it's a huge honor for me to be named captain.

I went and worked at a TV station in Stillwater. I was actually account manager for commercial accounts, selling ad space and everything.