Remember this well. There are two kind of fights. As long as we place ourselves in battle, we must always know the difference: fights to defend life... and fights to defend pride.
I just want fights like that. Fights that get me excited. Fights that are going to be exciting.
I don't watch a lot of featherweight fights yet some of those fights are the best fights ever.
These kinds of fights, these big fights that get everyone talking and interested, these are the fights I want.
I had 33 kickboxing fights, 37 MMA fights, plus 44 amateur boxing fights, which most of them were international. I will keep fighting as long as I feel good, but I will repeat once more, any fight could be the last one.
I'm in this game to give the fans proper fights, fights they will remember.
Anybody in Britain, the big fights. I'm here for the big fights. I don't care about the little fights any more.
Once I'm world Champion we can think about what fights are fun rather than fights that need to take place.
The first am fight I had, I was 10 yrs. old. I didn't count, but as far as I remember, it was approximately 350 fights. It was a lot of fights.
Some of my fights in PRIDE, I felt tired. I would train on the punching bag and feel great but then get tired in my fights.
I need those meaningful fights, the fights that everyone wants to see. That would help my legacy a long way.
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.
With a television show, it's about fighting to get it on the screen every week. It's like going into battle, and you have to fight these fights. Some are big fights, some are skirmishes, some you can come to detente on, but it's always a fight.
If the fights that I take make sense, and there is not a 27-year-old number one contender in the world, then I'll probably be interested in doing fights that make sense and fights that are marketable.
I don't watch every fight; I am not huge on watching fights on TV. Because I did it my whole life. But I do watch the big fights. I follow the little fights too, sometimes; I just don't have to watch every single fight that happens.
The fights I've learned the most were always the fights I lost.
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.