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I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: If I didn’t fight you, get ready. Get ready, because I’m coming.
I state facts all the time.
I’m a family guy, I’ve got a beautiful wife, a beautiful son, and I couldn’t be happier.
Too many guys are over here begging for people and trying to chase people to fight, this and that, begging for money fights. You become your own damn money fight.
Life changes on a dime, so live life to the fullest.
I want to have my 11 or 12, 13, 14 belt picture. I want to be lying down just covered in them. I want a lot of them. I want my closets to be filled with UFC belts.
Everyone wants drama. Everyone is living for drama.
That’s all I ask the UFC to do: keep me active.
If you want to be the best, you’ve got the beat the best, and the best is ‘Blessed,’ baby.
It’s hard to go out there and protect something that you earned.
When I was finishing guys, the media was on me like crazy.
People get some success, they get some money, they get some power, and they put themselves on this pedestal above other people. They forget people and try to fit in with their new crews they think they need to be around with. I didn’t believe that. I’m still human being.
I’m not going to change me just for some extra money.
You’ve got to believe in your damn self and do the damn thing, so I’m a big believer in self-belief, man, and going out there and working hard and sacrificing.
I believe in my training camp. I believe in my coaches. I believe in what I do. I believe in the work I put in.
Us Hawaiians – I’m Hawaiian-Samoan. I love to eat. I want to go for four titles: 155, 170, 185; they all can get it.
If you’re not confident in this sport, you’re not going to get very, very far.
I got to fight the greatest-of-all-time in my weight division – not once but twice. I was watching this guy when I was 16 years old when I first started kickboxing. I wanted to fight Aldo in a kickboxing match. A couple years later, I came to MMA and wanted to fight him. 10 years later, I got to fight the man twice.
I don’t want money fights. I want to get paid, and like I said, I want to defend my throne.
These guys are playing checkers. I’m out here playing chess. When they figure it out, it’s too late.
If you want to fight the best, you come fight Blessed.
I don’t take that away from Conor, that he beat Chad Mendes on short notice. Chad took that fight knowing he had a chance to beat Conor, so that’s Chad’s fault he took that fight.
I’m trying to lead the pack. I’m trying to sprint.
I don’t believe in guys waiting for title shots.
I want the undisputed career. I want the best damn career. I want to be the best guy ever to do this.
Who in their right mind goes into a fight they think they’re going to lose?
Heroes get remembered, but legends never die.
I want McGregor-Holloway 2.
When a bully pulls your hair, you punch him in the face.
No success, no nothing, no belt, no person can change the way I act, the way I feel.
I ain’t going to chase someone around. I ain’t going to talk about someone that ain’t talking about me.
I’ll do what I like. It’s my own life.
The UFC has a mind of its own. Whatever they want to do, I’m down for.
I’m not trying to be this guy just chugging along. I want to lead the pack.
I believe I’m the best guy in the world.
My coaches deserve a lot of respect.
The way I look at it, if you’re the best in the world, you fight the best in the world anywhere, anytime.
Before Mendes got suspended, I’ve been calling out Chad Mendes.
I grew up in front of everyone’s eyes in the UFC.
At the end of the day, I’m the king. I’m in my throne, you know? If you want to come see me, come see me.
I’m not racing through my division – I’m cleaning it out.
I gotta respect our sport, my division, and the guys that are fighting in it. That’s what I gotta do.
I tell myself, ‘I’m the greatest, and this is what you need to do.’
I’m here in the present, and I want to make sure I don’t stumble on my own feet.
The obvious thing is I would love to fight Conor McGregor. We’ve got some history there, and he won, and people saying he didn’t knock me out because of an injury he had. I was injured in the fight, too, so let’s test that theory. I want to test that theory.
Everyone knows who the money fight is, and everyone is begging for it. But at the end of the day, Conor’s going to fight who he wants to fight.
This is what champions do: champions defend. They always say you’re not a champion until you defend your title.
I’m a fighter. I go in the ring and do one thing.
I think the UFC does a pretty good job of backing me.
I understand; I can see it from two ways: people trying to get that money and leave the game early and people trying to set history or whatever.
I always eat before I go into a training session.
There’s ways to get the right nutrients and eat the food you want and have it taste great.
I ain’t trying to run away from no danger. If it’s supposed to be dangerous for me, then I’m going to go and take a peek. I want to go and look and see what’s so dangerous about it.
A nutritionist is expensive, but it’s money well spent.
I want to be a champion. I want to be a long-reigning featherweight champion. I want to be known in the history books: my name everywhere as a champion. And then, later on in my career, when I start getting good, then I can start doing the exhibition matches for money and stuff.
Conor McGregor set this bar, and I’m trying to break it. If you’re not trying to break it, then why are you in the game?
I just love striking.
People always say, ‘I want to be the best fighter in the world.’ That’s why I respect Conor. He said he wants to be the best fighter in the world, and he’s trying to prove it.
I don’t cry about anything.
I might even be at heavyweight one day; I don’t know. You guys know our eating habits is bad down in Hawaii, so your boy might get big, and we might make history.
It’s super easy to do what Conor does. He earned something. Then, he looks over the fence – he looks for something new – and it’s very easy to be motivated for something new.
Aldo is a hell of a champion.
I’m just asking for a fair shake. You see a lot of these guys, a lot of these other champions making what they’re making. I’m not trying to take anything away from them, but I feel like I’m one of the more exciting fighters under contract in the UFC.
Every time I go in, me and my time, we’re 0-0, and we’re looking to become 1-0.
I did an interview for MMA Hawaii when I was growing up, and I told them the guys I want to fight are Anthony Pettis and Jose Aldo.
If I medically can’t make the weight, then I’m not going to force my body to do something that it doesn’t want to. I’ll gladly go up to ’55.