I'm not a young kid struggling to get to the top. I've been to the top. I gotta look out for my best interests as a businessman in this fight game. At the end of the day, it is a business. I've got children to take care of; I've got bills to pay.
There's many ups and downs in the fight game.
You can't really be one-dimensional in this fight game. If you are, you're going to get knocked out or you're going to get finished. Either that, or you're just going to take a lot of damage and you're just not going to be able to last very long.
I'm just a very impatient person. It's always something that I'm working on, and just staying interested in the fight game is the biggest challenge for me. As long as I'm interested and I have an incentive to stay interested, then I'm unbeatable.
I've seen the struggles and the heartache and the pain that goes along with being in the fight game.
It's the fight game. I'm ready for everything.
I love fighting. I want to fight, but there are principles in this game. You've got to have morals. I'm not just going to fight fights to fight to get nowhere.
I have the same malice in my heart as far as the fight game is concerned, but outside the ring, I won't say anything a dignified man won't say.
The fight game has changed to where it's no longer the toughest is fighting the toughest to be the best on the planet.
There are people who have great skills, who do great things, but don't embody the whole animal that is the fight game like I do.
I love the fight game. I like the brutality. I like the mentality. I like the aggressiveness, but I like the technique and skill. I like the stakes. I like the people around in the gym. I like the everyday, working class feel of a boxing gym.
My team has helped me improve in many factors - speed, power, experience, the mental game; how I see the fight game is different.
I love this fight game. I'm passionate about it. I feel great about it.
People can't always judge by the records. Maybe a guy has 11 wins in MMA but he's fought the best. Someone else has 11 wins but he's fought nobody. It's a difficult sport because someone can be a champion in four fights, look at Brock Lesnar. So records don't always mean a lot.
Rampage's footwork is atrocious. His boxing is slipping. He doesn't take the fight game seriously.
The reason we get into the fight game is the same reason why we stay too long sometimes. It's because we enjoy it.
We're not getting judged or rated by just our fighting ability. People want to watch guys who are flamboyant and have something to say, and that's just the nature of the fight game and the game we're in. I get it.
