If I have a girlfriend, I don’t bring her to flaunt her. She doesn’t get to reap the benefits of me being famous.
Nick DiazIf you're getting paid more than me, I'm definitely more excited about this ass whoopin I'm gonna put down on you.
Nick DiazSomeone came up to me and told me that [his opponent's] knee was hurt, and he said to me, attack his knee, I'm like, 'Yeah right, I'm not going out to attack this guy's knee.' It just doesn't … it's not realistic to go after his injury, unless they got a cut the same week, then it's like, yeah, hit him in the eye, because the [expletive] is going to re-open and now you wouldn't fight on the cut. Maybe on a cut you want to take advantage of it, that makes sense.
Nick DiazPeople say that marijuana is going to hurt my career. On the contrary, my fight career is getting in the way of my marijuana smoking.
Nick DiazIf I had someone buttering me up, maybe I'd have worked out. You don't even know where I came from. Nobody wants to come out here.
Nick DiazFighters are afraid of conditioning, they are afraid of getting tired, but I don't want to have anxiety or be afraid of anything. I can go 100 percent out there and never have to worry about getting tired. Everybody says fighting is 90 percent mental, and it's true. Knowing you can go 15 minutes or 25 minutes without any problem can help you sustain that mental advantage over your opponent.
Nick DiazI would just like to be real and be me. It's just really hard to do walking around and everyone knows who I am.
Nick Diaz