RAFAEL DOS ANJOS

I always trained hard in my life to win the title, and I will train twice as hard to stay at the top.

The future is out of my hands; it is in God's.

I think money comes and goes. What comes easy goes easy.

I beat Diaz, Pettis, Ben Henderson, Cerrone, and I earned it, man. I earned my title.

I need talk more, call people out. It's not who I am, but I feel I need to do this more to bring more attention for me.

You can promote fights - of course, you have to - you can say 'I'll beat you' or whatever, but you cannot put family, religion, anything like that in the mix. You need to separate things. That is a line a lot of fighters cross.

If you look at my record, I have a clean record.

I talk the truth. I don't trash talk, I just talk the truth.

I don't do fight camps anymore because I live in camp.

You have to respect your opponent.

What made me move up to welterweight was all the effort I was doing, to look at my health and have a good life. I wanted to stop sacrificing so much.

I've learned that the key is to fight with no pressure.

I get paid the same money if I'm fighting on pay-per-view or on Fight Pass, and Fight Pass is just getting started. It's the future. The Internet, many people watch it.

Everything I want to do in my life, I want to be at the top.

I think social media is good for promotion, stuff like that, but people are so negative. People are too negative. If you read the comments, it's just too negative.

I just have to go out and fight my fight and fight to win.

I don't want to just be a champion, and I'm done with that. I wanna be a lightweight legend.

The way I train, the way I spar, I'm out of my comfort zone every single day, and you can see the result in my fights.

I'm an aggressive fighter, but I'm smart. I'm not going to play stupid.

If you're out for two years, and you beat one guy with a full-time job, without disrespect, but we're talking about fighting for a world title. You can't just beat a guy that went there to cover some guy that got injured, and then this guy, after two and a half years, gets a title shot.

I have to take care of my family, my team, and my legacy.

Bro, how are you going to tap on the neck, on the choke? Go to sleep, man. Be a man.

I'm confident, motivated.

It wasn't easy to get here, and it will not be easy to take my title away from me.

We have a lot of Brazilians in the United States. It doesn't mean we're traitors to our country.