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- Nov 07, 2020
Obviously, in a sport like golf, we see Tiger Woods fall off. There's not really too much damage he can take from that, although when you watch him and he sucks, and you're like, 'God, you used to be so good but you suck now,' it's disconcerting as a fan.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're competing right, if you're doing it right, competition should be a very selfish pursuit.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wasn't granted the opportunity to fight some of the best guys in the world. And that was something that was not on my end by any sense of the imagination.
- Sports
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- Nov 07, 2020
When someone decides to come into the UFC, and they don't have a combat sports background, you're kind of thinking, 'Does he really understand what he's getting into?'
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't like Jay Hieron very much. He just bothers me, the way he talks, and he thinks very highly of himself.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
Andrey Koreshkov is not well-rounded. He's been taken down and mounted and has his back taken by Lyman Good, which tells me he's a terrible grappler. He isn't well rounded. He's a good striker, but that's it.
- Every Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I fight with good strikers every day.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
Obviously, everyone knows it is hard to hang it up, but I'm definitely going to try and do it the right way and not like how combat athletes have done and hold on too long for every last fleeting moment. I don't want to be one of those people.
- Gold
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm going to win a gold medal.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of wrestling interviews are boring, plain and simple. They don't say anything you never heard before. Your basic wrestling interview is, you ask me how am I going to do, and I say, 'I'm going to do my best. I'm going to wrestle hard.'
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't like all the cheating that's going in mixed martial arts. I don't know what percentage of high-level fighters do it, but I think it would be a significant amount.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
As long as I'm speaking the truth, I'm going to be OK with what I'm saying. That's kind of how I've lived my whole life.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never feared anyone or worried what they said as long as what I'm telling is the truth, and I'm not telling lies about people.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I'm coaching at my academy, and we were drilling the front headlock, we don't just say, 'OK, now go five-minute goes,' because how many tries are they gonna get at going at the front headlock position?
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I want a kid to be good at a front headlock - which, if you're gonna wrestle at a high level, you need a good front headlock - I'm gonna put him in there 50 times in that practice.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Having the letters UFC behind my name is not the be-all, end-all it is for someone. Some people think once they get into the UFC, that's it.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just don't get hit a lot. That's what I'm good at.
- Fan
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not really a soccer fan. I understand they have skill and all that running up and down the pitch and what not.
- Honor
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's no honor in faking an injury. There is no integrity, because you are lying about it.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I'm thinking of sports, when I'm thinking of a boy growing up and being a man, I'm thinking of three things - honor, integrity, and toughness.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Listen folks, if you want your son to grow up to be a man, don't have him run around on a field kicking a ball; get him wrestling.
- Journey
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's just funny because I think a long time back I was not a fan favorite at all, and now people have followed my journey, have seen the struggle and the perseverance I've had, and they can relate to that.
- Hold
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't hold grudges.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think the number of followers has anything to do with how good I am fighting. That said, I am good at fighting, and I do have a lot of followers.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm more of a purist competitor, and I enjoy the fighting aspect of it, but people enjoy my personality, and they enjoy that I tell the truth.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some people, they don't get a few takedowns, they start getting nervous, and they fade. That's just not in my character.
- don't Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't care if you're an Asian fan or an American fan: I'm happy to perform.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't care about having a fancy car. I don't have a lot of the wants and needs that a lot of people have where I would need to make a $1 million a fight.
- Coach
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- Nov 07, 2020
If your coach ain't got your back, who's got your back?
- Been
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been around the block. I travel a lot to gyms.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
Squash - definitely a rich's person sport, and it's only played in a handful of countries.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I try to wrestle one time a week with good, solid people.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think people realize that I'm one of the best welterweights, whether I'm number one or number four or number five or number six.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
So I think there's a lot of people who are really interested to see how good I really am, because they know I'm good, but they're not really sure how good. They want to see that, and there's definitely interest in that, but because of some other people's shortsightedness, maybe it never really happens.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Young guys kind of have this chip on their shoulder of, 'I want to prove something,' right? 'I've got to prove how tough I am. I've got to prove how good I am.' And man, now as I'm getting older, I think it's almost sad when guys my age and older still have that chip on their shoulder.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's like, hey, I've done what I could do, I've accomplished a lot, and now this - especially with wrestling - if this next generation wants to pass me up, great job. Good for them.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's more to life than fighting.
- Goals
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not willing to compromise my goals for monetary value.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm just a straightforward kind of dude.
- Motivated
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not hugely monetarily motivated.
- Hide
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't try to hide my feelings or what I think.
- Persistence
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of my best qualities is my persistence.
- High School And College
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I came through the ranks in wrestling - in high school and college - those systems have been in place for 100 years, and they're fairly standard training across the board for all the colleges.
- Organization
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are conferences every year where all the major coaches get together, and they talk about the issues in wrestling, what's going to happen. There's a major governing body, U.S.A. Wrestling, which oversees a lot of the issues. The organization is there in wrestling to make a very well-balanced, organized system.
- Coaches
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- Nov 07, 2020
In MMA, all of these coaches are doing their best.
- Gym
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- Nov 07, 2020
A Division I college wrestling team has so many guys at such a high level it'd be like having every single guy in the gym being a top 10 UFC guy, and that's who you're competing against every single day. Most everyone has been wrestling since they were 5 years old. It's been their dream to wrestle in college. There's such a high level of intensity.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I trained with Jorge Masvidal when I've been training MMA for 2-1/2 months in Coconut Creek, Fla., in, like, December 2008. I was beating him up then!
- Damn
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't give a damn about my record.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to go and fight the best guys in the world and show people I'm the best. And hey, if something doesn't go my way - I don't think that's gonna happen. I realize that's a possibility in competition, and that's what happens.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
People are stubborn, and sometimes even if change is good, people will always oppose change.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think every promoter's job is to pump their athletes up. Like, you see, Dana White did it all the time with branding people: all of a sudden, they're the best thing since sliced bread, just because that's the promoter's job.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm open to any welterweight on Planet Earth.
- Open
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm open to a super fight.
- Fashion
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- Nov 07, 2020
While it may not have been the flashiest or the most creative, I brought a very unique skill set, and I executed in a fashion that very few have done before me and, I think, very few will do after me.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every single time you compete, I don't care what it is, you want to perform the best you can, and I feel like I'm doing that.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dana White ain't going to take care of you the second after you can't make him a whole bunch of money.
- Selfish
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're competing, you need to be selfish. You need to think of yourself first.
- Lose
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you look across my career, whether it be mixed martial arts or wrestling, it's very, very, very rare that I lose to someone that I'm not supposed to.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
People who are great at what they do, they do it the same way no matter who the opponent is.
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a great relationship with the whole Missouri athletic department. I made friends with everyone from the administrators to the janitors and everyone in between.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have nothing against Bellator at all.
- Nov 07, 2020
I don't really want to be famous.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like coaching a lot.
- College
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- Nov 07, 2020
In college wrestling, you see a lot of talented athletes come in and fail because Division I class wrestling is the pinnacle of wrestling in America.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think I could ever make 155. I made 163 for the Olympics, and that is a super low weight for me. I'm a fairly big person, and for me to make 163 was incredibly difficult.
- Challenges
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I'm the best in the world at 170 pounds, so why would I need to go down? If, at some point, I beat everyone at 170, I'd consider going up. If I've eliminated all my challenges, yeah, at that point I would consider going up.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just like taunting people.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
If my team and family are happy for me, I'm not going to let what some fans think affect me in any way.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think a lot of fans don't know MMA that well. They don't understand the subtleties.
- Famous
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of my favorite topics to read about my whole life has just been famous athletes, and a lot of those have been combat athletes.
- Challenge
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some people who come from high levels in other backgrounds where they're used to being the best or used to being on a kind of pedestal, it's hard to kind of lower yourself again and just be one of the grunts. I kind of enjoyed that challenge in MMA.
- Got
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm dominant positionally, and my hands got power.
- Motivation
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- Nov 07, 2020
My main motivation is to prove I'm No. 1 in the world.
- Idiot
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- Nov 07, 2020
Colby Covington is an idiot. He is so stupid.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think Georges St-Pierre should go down to fight Tyron Woodley. I think he has a chance.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wouldn't fight Tyron Woodley; we go way, way back.
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- Nov 07, 2020