I don't care about proving things to people. I'm proving things to myself.

I think I'm better than Jake (Shields), I think I should be fighting for the title, but I've been given a huge opportunity here to fight B.J. Penn and that's a big fight, belt or no belt. We're in a sport of selling fights right now, and the sport's growing, we're trying to get international, trying to get into every country, every household, and part of that is ticket sales is the idea that Jake Shields is coming over from Strikeforce with two belts. I understand that, it's a business decision.

You have to have good training partners and not people who crank on things. There's a difference between cranking on it and catching it, holding it and making the guy work out. You have to be selective with your training partners for sure.

Fans want heroes. They're bored. They want a hero and want to follow that guy.

I'm very good at what I do and there's not too many people in the world that have an answer for what I can do.

I always enjoyed working out and pushing myself physically and mentally as much as I possibly could.

Only worry about things that are within your control