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I will tell you right now, I want to fight the No. 1 fighter in the world. I always said that I want to fight the No. 1 fighter.
Nick Diaz
The UFC wants me to fight. The people want me to fight. I don't want me to fight.
You can't lie to the fans. They know what they want to see.
There's no reason for me to come and fight for fun. I don't do that. That's not what I do.
Fighting is not something that I enjoy doing. It's something that I do that I feel that I have to do.
Give me some real chocolate. Real fighters eat real chocolate.
A lot of guys have to worry about what their wives and kids think, I don't.
I've learned from my mistakes in the past, why I thought I've lost fights before.
Everybody wants to do a fight with me, champions at 170, champions at 185.
Belts aren't important. It's the fights that are important. Important to the fans, important to the show.
I don't have to worry about being a good role model.
I think for hundreds of years or for a much longer time, people have been fighting, professional athletes have been fighting in a ring. So it's just the way it should be. There's no sense in making it a cage.
I've been watching Frank Shamrock fight since the beginning.
I drink 10 pounds of water and sweat out 10 pounds of water every day.
I don't recommend anybody becoming a fighter.
I love athletics and martial-arts and competition because it gets me right and puts me in the right place.
I'm just going to do what I always do: train. And when it's time to fight, I go fight.
I'm not fanatical or in love with being an MMA fighter.
I just want to display my skills to the world because I can do it all.
I don't care about the Strikeforce belt.
I've never backed out of a fight in my life. That's not what I do.
You don't always come off the way that you want to or look the way you want to. I go out there and just act up and become the evil villain, and I'm calling guys out and stuff. It seems to have worked. I'm getting the fights I want.
You know what? I've never paid taxes in my life. I'm probably going to go to jail.
I love jiu-jitsu, and I love my team.
I have a cage at home, I have a cage at all the gyms I train.
I don't owe nobody nothing.
I'm trying to live life like a normal person.
People want to see real skill level, real Jiu Jitsu, real boxing, put together and mixed up. They want to see mixed martial arts. They don't want to see five minutes of holding. I think there should be points deducted when you do that.
I live a fight life, I can do what I want to win a fight.
I didn't graduate eighth grade. I could have, but I got into too many fights in middle school.
My first experience of doing martial arts was weird, real traditional, strange smell with incense burning. We did a lot of bowing, it was a lot of path of least resistance and go with the flow... Really good stuff for when you're at a young age.
I don't want to say I was a big Shinya Aoki fan, but it's just that I felt like he got out and was able to do a lot of the tricks that I like to do before I was able to do them. I guess you can say, a little bit jealous in a way that he was making that sort of show before I was.
I don't like to hurt people for fun.
Stylistically, though, I've always liked Carlos Condit, because he at least amounted to at least the level of doing what I do. I mean, but I think he stands a little upright.
For me, I already fought some of the best people there are. I already did, you know, what I need to do for me.
I was always throwing a fit about it, like somebody I was fighting had their hair painted and I would be like, it's not enough that this guy has to win a fight against me, but he's gotta do it with his hair being on blast, like big mohawk. Just a wild man.
I felt like my job is to go out there and put on a good show, amazing fights and give an amazing effort and hope that people can recognize that sort of thing, and maybe they would want to find out more.
I don't like the way the cage is set up. I think it's really dangerous that the metal comes up about three inches off the ground. People were putting their foot on it. I can see it. And I was worried about being taken down and landing backwards with my elbow. and damaging my elbow or even my head.
I was never, like, picking on people or anything like that. I was more the other way around. I was a little insecure, I was broke.
I don't have anything against Georges St-Pierre. I think he's a great fighter. I think he's a nice guy just like everybody else, and he's a great role model. I would love to be that too if I was in that position.
I'd like to be thought of as someone who keeps it real.
I have Georges St-Pierre out here telling me 'you really think I'm afraid of you, man?' and I'm like you should be, bro. You should be scared out of your mind. I'll tell you what, I'm scared of him.
I like the idea of being able to fight my way out of something.
Don't tell me I'm crazy. I'm out here acting natural.
I just come to fight. Whatever happens out there happens.
Stockton is a great fight town because if you drive long enough on some of these roads, you'll probably see a pretty good street fight.
I'm scared of any fighter I've ever fought because they are some dangerous people to be dealing with.
I'm a pay-per-view without a title.
I don't like that I'm made out to be this evil person, who needs to be shot down and conquered.
I'm not going backwards in this sport ever, especially in pay. Why would I?
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