My wife calls me grumpy cat. I'm normally a very pleasant person to be around.

I'm trying to be really synced. It goes back to the idea that, ultimately, the reward is the work.

I really realized how much happier I am when I'm doing projects that I'm chosen to do, and on the flip side, how much unhappier I am on projects that make me feel uncomfortable.

Mother Nature is a pretty good bioterrorist.

My wife calls me grumpy cat. I'm normally a very pleasant person to be around.

What I've been thinking about recently is the idea of finite and fragility. Either we're acknowledging that our lives here are finite, this moment is finite, and that this whole world is fragile, or we're not, but it is really happening and that is really true.

There is a ferocity to MMA and to the training, but there's such a humanity to it too. It takes so much sacrifice and humility to get into it and to rise through those levels. If you look at the fights as a means to test who you are, every one of these fights is an opportunity to see how far you're willing to go up against yourself - and to find and define your limits.