I don't watch a lot of featherweight fights yet some of those fights are the best fights ever.
I never picked fights. I'm never going to start to pick fights. If they ask me to fight someone, I'll say yes.
We as fighters always want to fight the best possible opponents and the best fights. We want the fans and media to be excited about the fights that we have. I now believe that this is a big fight and people want to see it, I'm not sure that was the case a few years back.
I never turn down fights. Anybody who follows my career knows that I accept fights.
Fights are fights. It's a cliche, but it's true, you can never know how they'll go down for sure until you do it.
The soldier who fights to death never dies, but the soldier who fights for existence never truly exists.
All of my fights, especially all of my UFC fights my whole career, I've never been in there without any kind of impingement and pain wrong with my back.
He's one of the best fighters in the UFC. I never thought I'd face Nick Diaz. I've watched all his fights.
I think people who are destined to be friends, that are best friends, that genuinely, truly are invested in each other as human beings - a fight won't separate you forever. I've definitely had fights with my best friend, but it has never made us sever ties.
I had to fight those type of fights which were high risk, low reward and at the start, I never could get the fights I really wanted.
I just want fights like that. Fights that get me excited. Fights that are going to be exciting.
These kinds of fights, these big fights that get everyone talking and interested, these are the fights I want.
The best martial artist doesn't win fights, but avoids fights. Martial arts is a way of gaining basic self-mastery of your mind, body and emotions. It can also be very useful in combat situations.
I've told the UFC brass I want big fights: fights that are going to put money in their pockets and money in my pockets and staple me as one of the best of all-time.
General Motors, General Mills, General Foods, general ignorance, general apathy, and general cussedness elect presidents and Congressmen and maintain them in power.
You have to make sure you have the right people around you to get the right fights, and you're not guaranteed to get the best fights.