My goal is to always be improving my skills.
When you put the pressure on yourself, it's not good. If you fight afraid to lose, you wind up not fighting that good.
People treat you one way when you're champion, but when you're not the champion, everything changes. People treat you different.
I get paid the same money if I'm fighting on pay-per-view or on Fight Pass, and Fight Pass is just getting started. It's the future. The Internet, many people watch it.
I'm the best in the world; thank you, Jesus, for that.
I wouldn't be where I am without Evolve.
I've learned that the key is to fight with no pressure.
What made me move up to welterweight was all the effort I was doing, to look at my health and have a good life. I wanted to stop sacrificing so much.
Coming from where I came from, I was born naked with no teeth. Now I have everything.
Ever since I was 10 years old doing jiu-jitsu, I've done well against the tall guys.
We have people around the world who live in the United States, and these people don't deserve to be called traitors.
I think money comes and goes. What comes easy goes easy.
People see me because I'm winning my fights. That's how I want people seeing me.
Cerrone, he's a very good Muay Thai guy, very long.
I just have to go out and fight my fight and fight to win.
You can promote fights - of course, you have to - you can say 'I'll beat you' or whatever, but you cannot put family, religion, anything like that in the mix. You need to separate things. That is a line a lot of fighters cross.
I do things right. No shortcuts.
Just to be fighting for the belt, I was already happy. No pressure at all.