I am in the fighting game, I don't care about anything else. I don't watch the news, I don't care about politics, I don't care about other sports. I don't care about anything I don't need to care about. This is my sport, it is my life. I study it, I think about it, all the time. Nothing else matters.

To do anything to a high level it has to be total obsession.

I don't believe in talent. Talent doesn't exist.

I love money because I've earned it.

You need to be able to hit, kick, grapple, wrestle, but for me so much of this is about the mind, about feeling you are in complete control of the space around you, and you know what to do at any moment. That is a wonderful feeling, but it doesn't just happen, you have to work for it, train for it, think about it all the time.

My diet is usually pretty consistent whether I'm training for a specific fight or not. I don't like to mess too much with it.

It makes a difference when you've got more than two months versus two weeks to train for a particular opponent.