If you lose, what can you do to get better and learn from it?

When I train, I train well.

Know what your strengths are, but also keep in mind what your weaknesses are; always work on your weaknesses.

I'm still in the gym every day for training, putting in the same hard work every week. That's the only way I know how to do it.

In wrestling, I was always competing against bigger guys.

I represent hardworking people. That's who raised me. That's who I grew up around.

I know I can eat a lot. Normally, at home, I finish my steak, eat the rest of my fiancee's steak, and think about eating the two that are still left on the grill. I just can't stop eating.

I never go into a fight thinking, 'I have to finish this guy' - that's not a part of my game plan. I go out there and fight the way I fight.

Hard work and sacrifice can get you a long way.

Not being active, your name doesn't go out there as much, and you lose the popularity thing. Also, you're not able to make a living. This is what we do to make a living: we go out there and fight. Not being able to fight for a year and a half and not able to bring in money, it definitely sets you back.

There's nobody better than me, especially Junior Dos Santos.

You can't dwell on the past and be down on yourself because you lost. You have to take the positive away from it and see how you can improve yourself moving forward.

MMA is so exciting. It doesn't matter if you know the rules or not. If you like a fight, it's automatically gonna draw you in.

I just deal with what's at hand.

Wrestling has made me very mentally strong, conditioned me really well for MMA, and given me phenomenal balance.

Obviously, throwing leg kicks in the first round is not smart, but it's something that I can really utilize in the later rounds to both score points and look to finish the fight.

Heath Herring is tough as nails, and he fights hard.

For me, 240 is my target weight.

While wrestling in college as a junior, it came to a point where wrestling just wasn't enough for me anymore. I love wrestling, but I felt like I was missing something, and so the striking part about MMA, the boxing and kickboxing, was what got me really interested in MMA.

I've always loved competing; I've always loved working out - and wrestling, of course.

I don't think about being undefeated; I don't think about what people say in the media about me, whether it's good or bad. I just don't think of it.

Do I think my wrestling is the best? No, I think it's up there around the top.

Growing, up I didn't really have anyone to look up to. There weren't a lot of Mexicans on T.V. except for those in boxing.

For me, to make a living off of working out is a dream for me. I don't know, I really can't be in an office and stuff like that. I want to do something that I love, and training, that's what motivates me.

Once I started wrestling, I really got into it, and I just knew that I wanted to do that - I wanted to wrestle all the way through college.

For every new guy, you need to change a few things in the way you train, the way you take every fight. For every guy I train for, I prepare differently and learn new things, and I just keep them. That's why it's good to be fighting new people, because you add new things to your arsenal and keep getting better and better all the time.

All I can tell you is I'm going to be myself. I'm not the type of person that is going to develop into some character or come up with some phrase I will always say.

I'm going to be the best fighter I can be and focus on being me.

Don't bad-mouth me and then try to be my friend.

I grew up watching my parents work in the fields. That's where I get my work ethic from, because I saw them work hard my whole life.

There is always a possibility that you could lose, because the outcome isn't written yet: you have to go out and write it. If you want it bad enough, if you do the training and prepare yourself to succeed, and do everything in your power to win, you'll have a better chance of succeeding.