Everybody points their finger at me and says that I'm the crazy guy and this thug.
Nick Diaz
I'm fighting hard, I'm training hard. I'm still walking over people and stepping over people to get where I'm going and I would really like to give back especially to my mom, who was there for me when I was a kid.
I've never backed out of a fight in my life. That's not what I do.
I don't owe nobody nothing.
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 had a really hot girlfriend in high school and I'd get into fights over that. And by the time I got into high school, I was moved around into a lot of schools, so I was getting into fights in high school.
You know what? I've never paid taxes in my life. I'm probably going to go to jail.
I think it's rude of the UFC to try and lowball me and expect me to negotiate a deal while I'm training for a fight.
I'm the original Conor McGregor. I'm the original model of Conor McGregor. He wouldn't be who he is if it wasn't for me. Nothing against him. I'm the original real deal.
In order to love fighting, I have to hate it.
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.
If you don't find time to meditate and get all that negative out, and if you don't have the right people being positive around you, this is a very scary job to have if you don't learn how to control your fear.
I'm a pay-per-view without a title.
I'm the most overworked, overtrained, underpaid fighter.
I love athletics and martial-arts and competition because it gets me right and puts me in the right place.
Don't tell me I'm crazy. I'm out here acting natural.
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 held off on having kids and getting married so I could fight. I gave my life to this.
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 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 may not be able to keep fighting for money for a living, but I will always have to fight for my dignity, because that's who I am.
I didn't graduate eighth grade. I could have, but I got into too many fights in middle school.
I'm just going to do what I always do: train. And when it's time to fight, I go fight.
I'd like to be thought of as someone who keeps it real.
I'm trying to live life like a normal person.
I just come to fight. Whatever happens out there happens.
It's a really complicated road if you're an MMA fighter.
When someone tells you a fighter's injured and they tell you to go after an injury, it really throws you off.
I drink 10 pounds of water and sweat out 10 pounds of water every day.
They pay me way too much money but not enough as far as I'm concerned.
I don't like that I'm made out to be this evil person, who needs to be shot down and conquered.
I don't like to hurt people for fun.
The UFC wants me to fight. The people want me to fight. I don't want me to fight.
Belts aren't important. It's the fights that are important. Important to the fans, important to the show.
Sometimes you win some, sometimes you lose some, sometimes you can't be at 100 percent.
I like Georges. I'm a fan of Georges St-Pierre. I appreciate everything he does, and how he does everything to win, and it meets the scoring criteria that sucks.
I've learned from my mistakes in the past, why I thought I've lost fights before.
I do what I've got to do to survive, to keep my teeth in my head, and my head on my shoulders. I apologize to whoever can't put that together and understand that.
This is my life. It's everything I do, train eight-hour days every day.
That's a disgusting thought to have to fight my brother. I don't even appreciate being asked about that.
I am a fighter. It's what I am.
For the most part, since the time I was in EliteXC fighting, maybe there were one or two fights here and there that they had me to win, but for the most part I've been an underdog. I'm not a kickboxer so I'm going to lose to a kickboxer. I'm not a wrestler, my wrestling sucks, so I'm going to lose to a wrestler.
I'm not going backwards in this sport ever, especially in pay. Why would I?
My mom and dad taught me nothing but ABCs.
People like to talk a lot about me, about how I have anxiety or social disorders. I'll admit to anxiety, but it has nothing to do with media or being in front of a camera or being around people. It has to do with dealing with the sparring that I'm going to have or the workouts that I'm going to have from day to day.
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.
I live a fight life, I can do what I want to win a fight.
I'm not hard to find. I'm on Snapchat and Instagram every day.
Give me some real chocolate. Real fighters eat real chocolate.
You can't lie to the fans. They know what they want to see.
