I don't want to fight in UFC just because I was a champion in UFC. I'm gonna have to earn it. It's gonna have to be how I fight.
In the UFC, you are only as good as your last fight. It's really a fight-by-fight type of career in the UFC.
Fighting Frank Mir is something I'd love to do. I'm motivated to fight him.
To stay in the UFC while fighting top opponents... tell me one easy fight I had in the UFC. I have a history in the UFC.
I've already overcome a lot of things in my career, and if I don't fight in the UFC anymore, for sure I'm gonna find other ways to keep growing my legacy.
There was a time in the UFC, after the Anthony Johnson fight, where I said, 'You know what? I'm gonna quit making a big deal of these fights. I'm gonna have fun and make it exciting and enjoy the process.'
If I lose to Frank Mir, I have to find something else to do.
Anderson isn't qualified to make Frank Mir a sandwich
You're not going to win mental warfare with me. I am one of the mentally toughest guys, if not the mentally toughest guy in the UFC.
There's no easy fight in the UFC. Anyone can beat you.
I've won five bonuses in my nine fight UFC career.
Meldrick Taylor deserves the rematch. He gave me the toughest fight of my career.
If someone ever says I had an easy fight in the UFC, they are lying.
I signed a contract to fight at UFC 187, so I'm going to fight at UFC 187, whoever it is against. It's the same thing.
After the Ronda fight, I wasn't sure what the UFC held for me. I think coming out of that fight, I didn't know if losing that fight meant that I could get cut because I knew the rumors at the time was how easily fighters could get cut from the UFC.
The fight game has changed to where it's no longer the toughest is fighting the toughest to be the best on the planet.