Quotes from Tony Ferguson

It's what you do after making a mistake - that's what I like to see. As long as you mature and grow with it, that's fine.

We've never had somebody to secure the legacy for the 155-pound division.

I always said the 155-pound belt's been in so many grubby hands, man.

I'm looking for pound-for-pound list to be the best in the world and it takes belts to get there so let's get there.

I don't fight for anybody else besides myself and my family, so therefore I win.

I don't like red. I like blue. That's my color.

Preparing for a short-notice fight is dangerous, it doesn't even matter who you are preparing for. Short-notice fights suck.

I thought Al Iaquinta did a great job at UFC 223, but Khabib is going to say he won the Super Bowl after he faced the third string? No way, dude. So many people hold him up on a high horse, but I see his flaws. I wasn't impressed with anything he did.

At my academy, I have a full 20x20 canvas but I don't have any ropes around it and do that for a reason so I don't get on my back on the ropes.

You dangle a little bit of change in front of somebody and what do they do? They change right up like a chameleon.

I want to be a multi-division champ.

I'm the people's champ.

I'm a champion and I fight like a champion with or without that belt.

I'm a superstar. And I move like a superstar in that Octagon, and I expect somebody to move like that when they signed that dotted line with me.

I'm a fan pleaser.

I own 170 and 155. These are my weight classes.

Go back and watch my old footage, man. Go back and watch my old fights. I knocked people out at 170 pounds.

I'm consistent.

I don't want that title to come to my hands and be like, 'nah, I don't feel like it was deserved or it wasn't earned or whatever' - not saying that any of my accolades weren't, but I want it to be special. I want it to be super special and just super dope, and even if it's not special to everybody else, at least it is to me.

We all have to pay our bills. We all have to pay our taxes. Straight up.

Any of my previous fights before the UFC and 'the Ultimate Fighter' were all main events and co-main events.

The UFC has a long history of changing a fighter's compensation for a particular bout... There's always changes that's always being made as far as contracts.

I'm an entertaining fighter.

What looks better with that 'Ultimate Fighter' plaque that's on my wall? That belt. I'll tell you what, I won't stop until I get it.