Look at the guys I've fought. Anderson Silva. Lyoto Machida. Vitor Belfort. All those guys are much quicker than Luke Rockhold and I did just fine.

I put a lot of pressure on myself.

When you get hurt it's hard to judge when it's the right time to pull out of a fight.

My 'if it's not broken, don't fix it' type attitude might have held me back and made me complacent.

Coming off all my wins I had a lot of criticism.

I think any type of setback you have, any tough time you've got, getting through it is what makes you who you are. It makes you a tougher person. I think whatever you've been through in your life makes you a tougher person. I'm very grateful for the background I have, every tough situation I've been through because it's made me who I am.

My brother was probably one of the toughest kids from my neighborhood and he didn't make it easy on me. He made sure I was getting beat up as much as possible growing up. If he wasn't beating me up, he was making his friends beat me up.

I grew up getting bullied and fighting a lot.

I grew up in a decently tough neighborhood.

You don't want to fix things that aren't broken, so that kind of stops you from make changes.

I'm going to win the belt at middleweight and I'm going to go up to 205 and win the belt there after I dominate the middleweight division for a little bit - that will happen.

I want a rematch with Mousasi more than anything.

I want to beat people who people think I can't beat.

I want to have the biggest challenges in front of me and conquer them. That's why I wanted to fight Anderson Silva when nobody else wanted to fight him.

I want to fight the best possible people.

I've fought all these top Brazilians. They're all supporting their people, Anderson Silva, they're supporting him. Lyoto Machida, they're all supporting him. I didn't have the full support of America. Not everyone American was rooting for me because I'm from America. If they were rooting for me, it's because they were a fan of me.

We have a lot of great stars and so many different things, some of the other countries don't have that. So when they get somebody, they support them to the death. America, I kind of think we take it for granted sometimes.

I feel like smaller countries, other countries, they cheer, they support their people no matter what. We need to get a little bit more supportive of our people.

A lot of my career I'm out of the gym, I'm injured and I'm blown up.

It's a very tough sport. It's a fickle sport. The fans are definitely tough. But it's also kind of motivating.

You want to help people and make the world a better place in whatever way you can. I've tried to share the things I've learned, and for me it really is all about being a role model.

It's an entertainment sport, and we go out to entertain the fans, but at the end of the day, what really matters is your influence on others.

I watch something in the gym, try to do it and may not get it. When I go home that night and my wife is talking to me and I'm not answering her, it is because I'm visualizing that thing I'm working on. I'll do that all day long. Before I go to bed I'm still thinking about it, and that happens until I can see myself doing it.

I'm open-minded and never think I know everything. I actually feel like I know nothing, and that allows me to learn on a different level.