Quotes from Nick Diaz

When someone tells you a fighter's injured and they tell you to go after an injury, it really throws you off.

Everybody points their finger at me and says that I'm the crazy guy and this thug.

I don't recommend anybody becoming a fighter.

People like to talk a lot about me, about how I have anxiety or social disorders. I'll admit to anxiety, but it has nothing to do with media or being in front of a camera or being around people. It has to do with dealing with the sparring that I'm going to have or the workouts that I'm going to have from day to day.

I think for hundreds of years or for a much longer time, people have been fighting, professional athletes have been fighting in a ring. So it's just the way it should be. There's no sense in making it a cage.

In order to love fighting, I have to hate it.

Im not trying to hate on nobody.I love everybody that works towards what I was working towards.Its a hard game,its a hard life.

A lot of guys have to worry about what their wives and kids think, I don't.

They pay me way too much money but not enough as far as I'm concerned.

For the most part, since the time I was in EliteXC fighting, maybe there were one or two fights here and there that they had me to win, but for the most part I've been an underdog. I'm not a kickboxer so I'm going to lose to a kickboxer. I'm not a wrestler, my wrestling sucks, so I'm going to lose to a wrestler.

Stockton is a great fight town because if you drive long enough on some of these roads, you'll probably see a pretty good street fight.

I'm just going to do what I always do: train. And when it's time to fight, I go fight.

I think it's rude of the UFC to try and lowball me and expect me to negotiate a deal while I'm training for a fight.

People want to see real skill level, real Jiu Jitsu, real boxing, put together and mixed up. They want to see mixed martial arts. They don't want to see five minutes of holding. I think there should be points deducted when you do that.

I enjoy fighting here in Japan under the regular Dream/Pride rules with the ring and the whole rules criteria.

My first experience of doing martial arts was weird, real traditional, strange smell with incense burning. We did a lot of bowing, it was a lot of path of least resistance and go with the flow... Really good stuff for when you're at a young age.

I don't fight my friends... I don't care how much money you put in front of me, I don't care if you put millions and millions of dollars and you say whatever you want.

I'm not hard to find. I'm on Snapchat and Instagram every day.

Have you ever seen me knock somebody out and make a big scene? Hell no.

I don't want to say I was a big Shinya Aoki fan, but it's just that I felt like he got out and was able to do a lot of the tricks that I like to do before I was able to do them. I guess you can say, a little bit jealous in a way that he was making that sort of show before I was.

I don't like the way the cage is set up. I think it's really dangerous that the metal comes up about three inches off the ground. People were putting their foot on it. I can see it. And I was worried about being taken down and landing backwards with my elbow. and damaging my elbow or even my head.

I didn't graduate eighth grade. I could have, but I got into too many fights in middle school.

Sometimes I feel like I'm the only one who's in tune with what's really going on.

I've learned from my mistakes in the past, why I thought I've lost fights before.