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I mean, I've had fights with random guys, I drove to fi

I mean, I’ve had fights with random guys, I drove to fights by myself cutting weight, no corners whatsoever. So I’ve had a very interesting MMA journey.
Aljamain Sterling
I think it’s huge to set a good example. Whether you like it or not, as a professional athlete you are always going to be projected out into that spotlight of judgement. People are always going to judge every single thing we do and I think it’s cool to just be real with yourself.
Aljamain Sterling
Fighters don’t just fight. Not the good ones who have long, long success. The guys who make championship runs. The guys who fight for world titles. They get fizzled out, chewed up and spit out like a revolving door and then the next guy or the next female comes in to take their spot.
Aljamain Sterling
People can forget about you so quickly and that’s not what I want. I want to keep people talking because at the end of the day that’s what is going to get you paid. People have to want to care to watch you fight and you have to be relevant.
Aljamain Sterling
It’s almost out of sight out of mind because there’s so many cards. One great fight could happens one weekend and another great fight happens next weekend, you kind of get swallowed up in that pack. So you have to find a way to separate yourself and what better way to do that than on ESPN?
Aljamain Sterling
At the end of the day, when you get a sponsor, it’s a working relationship. So anyone I get involved with, I want it to be a working relationship where I’m generally trying to help them and they’re generally trying to help me.
Aljamain Sterling
Obviously, I rep Jamaica. I’m a first generation born Jamaican-American. My parents are born and raised in Jamaica, my grandparents are born and raised in Jamaica, my other family still lives in Jamaica, and I still go back there.
Aljamain Sterling
You might be an elite-level athlete in the room, but if no one gets to see you display your craft it doesn’t matter.
Aljamain Sterling
You show your teeth more when you show what you’re made of and your heart.
Aljamain Sterling
Whether it’s Bellator, OneFC, World Series, whatever, the door’s open for me. Financial stability is the most important thing for me.
Aljamain Sterling
This is the weirdest thing. I’ve been told one thing, that all these guys turned me down, x,y, z. I take to Twitter and some of these guys are like, ‘Yeah, I’ll take the fight,’ then you don’t hear anything of it for the next few weeks.
Aljamain Sterling
I never wish ill will saying ‘I wish this guy won or this guy lost.’ I really don’t care. The best guy, let them have their night.
Aljamain Sterling
You change the mind and world of one individual and that’s huge, man. You reach one person and that starts a spiral effect and starts to snowball. I think that’s the one thing as an athlete we should all focus on doing and that’s striving to give back in a positive manner.
Aljamain Sterling
At the end of the day, I feel like I’ve never had an easy break in terms of opponents.
Aljamain Sterling
MMA is not one of those up and down basketball seasons where you have a ton of games and you can still make the playoffs. It doesn’t work like that in MMA. You get a couple losses, you get washed up, you get the door slammed behind you and they bring in the next person behind you who is here to take your place.
Aljamain Sterling
You put me in there with anybody at ’35 or ’45, I get on your back, I take you down, it’s going to be a long night and it’s a dangerous situation to be in.
Aljamain Sterling
I’m from a family of 20, so I’m one of the oldest guys, I grew up a lot having my brothers and sisters walk with me to school when I had to be the guy to watch them and all these things, so I kinda learned how to develop those leadership skills at a very early age.
Aljamain Sterling
We’re all fighting for a reason. We’re not fighting to just fight. There’s got to be some type of reward at the end of the rainbow and that reward is a big, shiny, UFC gold belt. That changes every fighter’s life dramatically for the better.
Aljamain Sterling
I’m a lot bigger than Faber, I’m pretty sure I’m a lot stronger than Faber and I’m pretty sure I’m a lot faster than Faber.
Aljamain Sterling
When you look at the U.S., it’s a little weird, man because we have so many other sports and other things that we can watch and support that it’s hard to get the support of an entire country around you.
Aljamain Sterling
If you don’t know what the hell the martial arts are, why are you a judge?
Aljamain Sterling
I’ve been the captain of my wrestling team, my college team, so to me, I’ve been in that leadership role for a very long time.
Aljamain Sterling
You cant really put a value on the UFC name. That alone has value in itself.
Aljamain Sterling
I want to exit from this sport with my head intact.
Aljamain Sterling
I had to learn to toughen up and fend for myself. You’d think when you have a lot of brothers and sisters, they’d come to your aid and rescue you a lot of times, but for us it wasn’t really like that. It was tough love.
Aljamain Sterling
I would never want to sell a fight based on stuff about race. That’s not the type of person that I am. I would never go that route to push a fight.
Aljamain Sterling
I know some people count me out, but that’s the one thing about myself, I never count myself out.
Aljamain Sterling
You don’t have to get into, ‘I’m a leftist or a rightist, I’m Democrat or Republican.’ You don’t have to get into that kind of nitty gritty type of detail, but at the same time to show that you do have a stance is very, very important. To preach the good word of just being a good human being, being a humanitarian.
Aljamain Sterling
If you’re a top 10 guy you should pay a top 10 guy or even a top 5 guy what he deserves, whether it’s a lightweight or a heavyweight.
Aljamain Sterling
If we’re just going to have contenders fighting just to fight, that doesn’t make a whole lot of sense. Then I might as well just start jumping around divisions too because there’s a lot of fun fights for myself in other divisions that I think I would love to entertain.
Aljamain Sterling
I almost want to ask the judges, ‘If you don’t count leg kicks, if you don’t count body kicks, why not?’ So if you don’t think they’re effective in the scoring criteria, they’re not effective striking, effective grappling, so how about I kick you in the body, I kick you in the leg, and you tell me how that feels?
Aljamain Sterling
You just take your hits on the chin and move on, that's

You just take your hits on the chin and move on, that’s life.
Aljamain Sterling
I’ve had negative experiences with cops. I’ve had positive experiences with cops.
Aljamain Sterling
I got to the pinnacle of the sport for a reason and that’s to make money. I didn’t come here just to give handouts.
Aljamain Sterling
I’m a hard guy to hit and take down, and once I get you on the ground I’m going to choke you out. Even if you resist a few of the other attempts I’m going to get you one way or the other. I’m like the Boogeyman… I’m gonna get you.
Aljamain Sterling
I want to have a bank account that represents me being a pro athlete.
Aljamain Sterling
At the end of the day, I know I’m not Superman.
Aljamain Sterling
It’s MMA, man, the wild, wild west. You can just expect that anything can happen, and that’s just where I’m at with things.
Aljamain Sterling
To be in the UFC and have the name but not the earnings, good for you, you get a hand clasp and a shake and a don’t let the door hit you on the way out sort of thing.
Aljamain Sterling
At the end of the day, Cejudo’s a tough competitor but I think he’s a flyweight.
Aljamain Sterling
I’m like, ‘Man, if I’m going to have this idle time, I might as well be in school, do something positive where I’m not just wasting my prime years and not getting something else in return.’ If I’m in school and training, that’s OK. I did that in college. It worked.
Aljamain Sterling
I bring the funk. It’s a different style.
Aljamain Sterling
It’s all about brand exposure, building your brand, building your image and just getting to that next level as an athlete.
Aljamain Sterling
A lot of guys man, they are dull and dry.
Aljamain Sterling
About this sport, you gotta kind of stay active. If you’re not active, you’re easily forgotten. It’s like out of sight, out of mind.
Aljamain Sterling
I always felt like the UFC brass kind of had it out for me.
Aljamain Sterling
My whole thing is I can’t wait to inspire the next young fighters from my hometown.
Aljamain Sterling
The mind has to be right and the work has to match the mind.
Aljamain Sterling
I can never complain about the situation that I’m in. I try to put everything into perspective.
Aljamain Sterling
I’m in this to change my life, to change my fortunes. I’m not in there to just fight for free.
Aljamain Sterling
I think I bring a different flavor to the game, both inside and outside the Octagon.
Aljamain Sterling
I’m not about trying to hand pick my fights and tip toe around the competition.
Aljamain Sterling
My comfortability is always going favor the grappling side, that’s the path of least resistance. But, I don’t need necessarily need to force the takedowns like I used to before.
Aljamain Sterling
Even when I teach my MMA classes in the gym, it’s hard to teach what I do. It’s more of state of flow, a state of feel. It’s not a robotic thing like one, two, three, kick, one, two, three, switch, jab, cross. It’s completely unorthodox. Everything is about rhythm, tempo and pace. It’s a different style, man.
Aljamain Sterling
It’s the fight game. I’m ready for everything.
Aljamain Sterling
I hope we can figure out the reforms, educate and really retrain our police officers. Getting people to understand that just because I grew up a different way and my lifestyle’s different, doesn’t mean that you need to be afraid of me.
Aljamain Sterling
I got a different persona than a lot of these other guys.
Aljamain Sterling
I’ve never been one to shy away from a challenge and I’ve never been one to shay away from talking a big game.
Aljamain Sterling