I'm just not going to let anybody build their name off of me.

Just give me the big fights and pay me to show up and let me do my thing, and I'll go home and hang out with my family and do my thing.

If I never fought for the belt, it wouldn't bother me. That whole song and dance gets tiring, and it's a lot of playing favorites. I've just had it dangled in front of me so many times, I'm just like, whatever, man.

In my whole career, I've never fought for a belt, so that's something that I would like to do, or at least have the opportunity to do.

I understand I'm an entertainer and a fighter as well.

I'm not one of the guys who talks a lot, I don't enjoy that, I've always believed in just going out there and putting on the best show possible.

We all know what it's like to have the ups and downs in this sport.

I've got so much respect for the Gracie family and all they did for the sport.

I know I'm not trying to fight past 40 so I'd like to get in as many as I can and keep the train moving.

When I was super young, and everybody who has been in fan of mine from the WEC days, I was just tough as nails, fearless and that's what made me tick. I'm not those things anymore. I'm fearless, but I plan ahead. I'm strategic. I'm smarter, and I'm just a different person than I was.