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When it comes to fighting and other fighters, I try to be respectful.
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I often get people that come up to me with the UFC 151 poster with me and Dan on it and ask me to sign it.
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I'm extremely confident. I do believe my own hype. And I'm working towards making it true.
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It's not my business what other people think of me.
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When I fight someone who's not a good person, I want to beat him.
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When you say, 'When you're wrong, you're wrong,' I would 100 percent agree. I've always handled my punishments head on.
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A lot of coaches in MMA focus on MMA wrestling. My coach, his high school team is ranked 10th in the nation. Izzy Martinez is very connected to the wrestling community.
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I'm not scared of anything.
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I feel as if I'm God's champion, and I have a lot of pride in that.
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One day when I was bored, I just went down to a powerlifting gym, Via Strength Systems in Albuquerque. I knew I needed to expend my energy somehow. I started working out with them four days a week. I became obsessed with lifting and being fit.
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I genuinely wanted to be an inspiration to other people and inspire people and be a role model.
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Glover Teixeira is a phenomenal opponent.
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As long as I'm taking care of my family and breaking records and continuing to excel and continuing to find new endorsements - everything's working.
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My friends and family all know me, and that's the important thing.
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I think once you start to think that you're the man, and you know it all, and your style is unbeatable and stuff like that, that's when you get caught and clipped and get humbled really fast.
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I would study the best, the most flashy, the guys that had that flair, the guys that had that wow. I'd study those fighters, and I made up my mind that I'd be all of those at once.
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The moment I let fear slip in is the moment that the fights are gonna start getting closer and closer.
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Growing up, I was poor. In college, I was poor. I never had anything.
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I absolutely hate when people mention Rashad Evans.
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Conor McGregor has been a tremendous inspiration to me.
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I've convinced myself I'm something special. When you do that, man, you're dangerous, especially when you have the athleticism and work ethic to back it up.
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I don't enjoy hitting people; I enjoy outsmarting them.
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I'll see trash talk and people telling me why they're favorite fighter is going to beat me. It motivates me for sure.
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I will get out there and train harder than anyone, five times a day sometimes. You have to be a special person to do that - like, special forces, military maybe.