Quotes from Rafael dos Anjos

It was priceless. Being the UFC champion and having my kids in the Octagon, my wife, them holding the belt. That was like a movie.

Coming from where I came from, I was born naked with no teeth. Now I have everything.

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.

I'm a calm-headed fighter. I do my job.

When you're a fighter, and you're not doing good in your work, that happens - you lost the fight.

A lot of fighters come from Brazil. We've been doing this for long, long years.

I think every fight is different based on who is fighting.

People see me because I'm winning my fights. That's how I want people seeing me.

I was tested against the best.

I'm the former lightweight champion. I want to fight one of the top guys. I don't want to fight a guy who isn't ranked.

When you put the pressure on yourself, it's not good. If you fight afraid to lose, you wind up not fighting that good.

Cerrone, he's a very good Muay Thai guy, very long.

I'm the best in the world; thank you, Jesus, for that.

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.

I want to do that. That's my goal. I want to become a legend.

If I don't fight McGregor, I still have a good life.

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.

God makes everything in perfect time, and he doesn't give you anything you can't handle.

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

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

Now that I've achieved my goal to win the belt, I want to be the best of all times. I want to be remembered as the lightweight with most title defenses.

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 think to get a title shot, you need to have some expressive winnings.

Everybody likes money. I like money. I need money to survive. But I don't love money. Money is not my god.