Rafael dos Anjos Quotes
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I'm an aggressive fighter, but I'm smart. I'm not going to play stupid.
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My goal is to always be improving my skills.
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Everybody likes money. I like money. I need money to survive. But I don't love money. Money is not my god.
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I think it's a loser's mentality to get happy with somebody losing.
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I still have a lot to do, a lot to improve.
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If I take two years off, I would want to fight as much as possible.
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What made me move up to welterweight was all the effort I was doing, to look at my health and have a good life. I wanted to stop sacrificing so much.
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I think social media is good for promotion, stuff like that, but people are so negative. People are too negative. If you read the comments, it's just too negative.
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People see me because I'm winning my fights. That's how I want people seeing me.
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You have to respect your opponent.
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I'm the former lightweight champion. I want to fight one of the top guys. I don't want to fight a guy who isn't ranked.
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I was tested against the best.
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If you look at my record, I have a clean record.
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I think between 2014 and 2015, I made weight five times in 11 months. During that time, I felt my body change. It was able to hold on to more weight. And anybody who makes weight knows that it gets harder and harder to make weight once you've done it that many times.
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I don't want to fight anybody that just wants to hold you and try and eat the time.
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Ben Henderson, he had never been knocked out before fighting me.
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Cerrone, he's a very good Muay Thai guy, very long.
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I'm not a trash talker. I respect my opponents.
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A lot of people tell me I have to trash-talk more, but I got here with my fists, fighting, not with my mouth.
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When I was 16 years old, I weighed 176 pounds.
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I'm under contract. Whatever the UFC asks, I have to do because they are my bosses and they treat me very well. I can't complain about that, and it's this, man: When you have a boss, you need to follow orders.
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Just to be fighting for the belt, I was already happy. No pressure at all.
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People treat you one way when you're champion, but when you're not the champion, everything changes. People treat you different.
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I'm a calm-headed fighter. I do my job.