Quotes from Carlos Condit

I'm not satisfied until I fight and beat the champion and I'm the undisputed welterweight champion. That's when I'll be satisfied.

If you can use the takedown to control the fight, then that can be scored as octagon control. However, if you're taking somebody down, and not doing much with it, and if the guy gets right back up, then I think that stand-ups and escapes should also carry some weight in the judge's eyes.

It's not what you say or how you act. At the end of the day, when all is said and done, it's what you do when the bell rings that really matters.

I want to become undisputed UFC welterweight champion. I've been so close a couple of times, but I don't want to leave the sport always a bridesmaid and never a bride. I want to get that belt around my waist.

People hear my dad is involved in politics, and all of a sudden I went to private school and had a nanny. There's a misconception that my dad, that our family is some kind blue-blood family... If people knew my friends, talked to anybody I grew up with, knew anybody from my old neighborhood, they'd know that's really, really far from the truth.

I go through different phases where there's times of self-doubt, but when the bell rings and it's time to throw down and I get another opponent in my face, I just go to work my best. I fight and usually it turns out well for me.

When I was younger, I was a little less focused and I liked to have a lot of fun. I'd come in and do a five-week camp or maybe a four-week camp and do a five round fight.

I love MMA. I will be involved in some capacity, or in various capacities within the sport, after my fighting career is over.

I know what it is to feel like you've gotten into a 60-mile-an-hour car accident after a fight. It's pretty rough. It's why we are where we are. We get paid to fight the best in the world and that's something you know going in is part of it.

I'm just a regular guy, and I think sometimes the persona of an MMA fighter are these superstars who are larger-than life-characters. I'm just me and I only try to be me, a normal guy who is interested in a lot of things and happens to have a talent for fighting in a cage.

If you put the time in and you do your work and you eliminate the surprises, then you give yourself the best shot.

This fight is something I've been working towards for 10, 12 or 15 years, since I first started competing, not even competing, just training in Mixed Martial Arts. This is a dream of mine, and to fight Georges St-Pierre in his hometown for the undisputed belt, it's surreal and an opportunity of a lifetime for me.

I didn't go to college. I don't have a whole lot of options as far as backup plans.

My cardio, my conditioning, is a weapon.

I think I pose some problems for Georges that he maybe hasn't seen in the past.

I'm dangerous and I can finish from a lot of different positions.

I think some guys are able to take more damage, some guys are more resilient than others.

Magny is a tough test. Magny is well-rounded, has great endurance. He's got great boxing and great reach, but he doesn't have great angles. I have better movement than him and I feel that's definitely an advantage.

I'm well-rounded.

I love fighting and I love this sport, and as a competitor, I never really wanted to step away. But I have to be practical. I kind of had to think about how long I could continue to do this.

The pressure of kind of being one of the top guys for almost a decade, it's been awesome.

Whether I'm in camp or out of camp, I am 100 percent dedicated to my profession.

Getting through these camps, sometimes you're held together with paper clips and bubble gum and tape. You just kind of get in there and you make it work because if you pull out of a fight, you don't get paid.

It's hard to get a tattoo and give it the time that it needs to heal in between trying to get ready for fights and train. I would probably have more if I wasn't having to roll around and train all the time.