Quotes from Nick Diaz

I have Georges St-Pierre out here telling me 'you really think I'm afraid of you, man?' and I'm like you should be, bro. You should be scared out of your mind. I'll tell you what, I'm scared of him.

What I do is, I fight.

I am a fighter. It's what I am.

I do get paid well as an MMA fighter, but this isn't boxing and I feel like we should get paid like this is boxing.

Every other fighter has a life on the side. I've never had another job.

It's a really complicated road if you're an MMA fighter.

I'm not fanatical or in love with being an MMA fighter.

I will tell you right now, I want to fight the No. 1 fighter in the world. I always said that I want to fight the No. 1 fighter.

Give me some real chocolate. Real fighters eat real chocolate.

I want to go against the best fighters. That's why I'm always calling out Georges St-Pierre.

I felt like my job is to go out there and put on a good show, amazing fights and give an amazing effort and hope that people can recognize that sort of thing, and maybe they would want to find out more.

I don't know how they judge fights sometimes.

Belts aren't important. It's the fights that are important. Important to the fans, important to the show.

I do what I've got to do to survive, to keep my teeth in my head, and my head on my shoulders. I apologize to whoever can't put that together and understand that.

I love athletics and martial-arts and competition because it gets me right and puts me in the right place.

I'm scared of any fighter I've ever fought because they are some dangerous people to be dealing with.

For me, I already fought some of the best people there are. I already did, you know, what I need to do for me.

I've been watching Frank Shamrock fight since the beginning.

Sometimes you win some, sometimes you lose some, sometimes you can't be at 100 percent.

I held off on having kids and getting married so I could fight. I gave my life to this.

I had a really hot girlfriend in high school and I'd get into fights over that. And by the time I got into high school, I was moved around into a lot of schools, so I was getting into fights in high school.

I'm gonna talk my talk, I'm gonna walk my walk.

I'm the original Conor McGregor. I'm the original model of Conor McGregor. He wouldn't be who he is if it wasn't for me. Nothing against him. I'm the original real deal.

I was always throwing a fit about it, like somebody I was fighting had their hair painted and I would be like, it's not enough that this guy has to win a fight against me, but he's gotta do it with his hair being on blast, like big mohawk. Just a wild man.