I practice the martial arts. I don't practice MMA. MMA is my job, MMA is a new sport. Martial arts is the knowledge from the ages.

I think you should try... not to try to be better than everyone around you, but try to be better than yourself everyday.

If Somebody disrespects me they will pay for it. I promise

I am not the best, but I am capable of achieving the impossible.

You must have a dragon hidden inside you. When you need, you let the dragon out.

When I started out, Jiu-Jitsu was really an elite thing in Brazil, and there was some prejudice towards poorer kids, so I had to learn things on my own. Some of my neighbours started doing Jiu-Jitsu, so I started watching it, and then started rolling with them. It wasn’t organized training, but it was better than nothing.

I already have a story that's been seen in Glory and I have had many highs and lows, victories and defeats. That brought me experience and it will help me a lot to gain the desired world title.