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• ‟ Every fight, every camp I learn about myself and I get better. But every fight I get better.

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• ‟ This is a business. I'm a professional athlete. This isn't, 'poke somebody and start a street fight.'

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• ‟ Years and years ago, like in 2006, my wife, I didn't have a car, she would drive me to weigh-ins, we would sleep in broken-down motels and I would fight the next day. Just me and her.

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• ‟ I have a pretty high fight IQ.

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• ‟ There's always the pressure to win. That never goes away, but being a main event, I want to go out there and put on a great show for the fans and live up to being a main event. That doesn't really stress me out or pressure me anymore. The fight is enough.

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• ‟ You can't just be only going to the gym when you sign a fight contract or you'll just be the same fighter every time, just more experienced.

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• ‟ Fighting comes down to who you are as a person. With B.J. Penn, he has no problems, not a hard upbringing and came up with money or whatever and he's just a fighter, he enjoys the fight and he refined his skills so I don't think it necessarily has to be a rough upbringing for guys to be great fighters.

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• ‟ I'm not fighting just to fight. I'm fighting to be the world champ.

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• ‟ Cutting to featherweight took months of intense weight cutting and training. Going to lightweight, I can fight more often.

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• ‟ Every fight is like a different landscape of what you go through. But sometimes it's small injuries. Sometimes it's lessons you walk away with. Every fight is different but they all hurt, for sure.

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• ‟ Those deep, dog fights - I love that. That's why I fight.

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• ‟ I want to fight for the real belt, not the interim title.

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• ‟ The cut made me hate the process of getting ready for a fight. I was focused on how to make weight instead of how to beat my opponent.

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• ‟ I want to fight the fights that fans want to see.

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• ‟ I'm chasing gold. And whatever fight can get me closer to being a world champion, those are the fights that I want.

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• ‟ If you're training for a fight, you're going to be pretty much, there's going to be days where you're hurting.

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• ‟ I think I fought my first fight in Zuffa in 2010.

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• ‟ I've said it before, I'm not a matchmaker, I don't call the shots. I just prepare and fight the guys after I sign the contract.

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