You can have a whole warehouse full of weapons, but if someone attacks you need to get that weapon fast. If you have to run to the warehouse and look….

Only worry about things that are within your control.

I'm very good at what I do and there's not too many people in the world that have an answer for what I can do..

I think I'm better than Jake (Shields), I think I should be fighting for the title, but I've been given a huge opportunity here to fight B.J. Penn an….

You have to have good training partners and not people who crank on things. There's a difference between cranking on it and catching it, holding it a….

I always enjoyed working out and pushing myself physically and mentally as much as I possibly could..

Bad choices almost always result from making a choice out of fear..

My opponent is my teacher and I am his teacher. I have to show him what he's doing wrong and I have to learn from what he's teaching me. You can't th….

Fans want heroes. They're bored. They want a hero and want to follow that guy..

Experience is the highest level of knowing..

I don't care about proving things to people. I'm proving things to myself..

One of the reasons I got into fighting was because I'd never really been in a fight. It's like in Fight Club, the famous line, 'How much can you real….