You have to realize that most of these guys get in there and fight on heart. I fight with smarts. There is no fighter that is smarter than me. Most of these fighters are ABC, 1-2-3. I am like 4-5-6 levels above them; that's why I'm able to beat them.

To be honest with you, I normally beat guys with my C game and I don't have to pull my A or B game out.

Showing is better than telling.

I haven't took no punishment. There's nothing cool about taking punishment.

I want to be able to separate the average from the good and from the great. I want to separate the ordinary from the extraordinary.

When I was about 8 or 9, I lived in New Jersey with my mother and we were seven deep in one bedroom and sometimes we didn't have electricity.

You've got to have a villain and they'll always make me a villain. I'm used to it - it makes me work harder and it makes me fight harder.