Quotes from Carlos Condit

I've got nothing but respect for the guys I compete against, but in the cage it's a different story.

You know that when you fight a guy like Georges, there are going to be a lot of demands on your time and you just have to be able to find a way to deal with it. The most important thing is, I can't let my obligations to promote the fight interfere with my obligation to get ready to fight.

I proved that I can compete with the best in the world.

It's something I advise young fighters: Get it while the getting's good. Take care of yourself financially. Be smart and save your money and protect your damn head, dude. Try to take as little damage as possible, especially training.

When I fought GSP and knocked him down I got really excited and punched myself out.

I've had a long career with a lot of fights, and I've taken a lot of punishment.

Before these fights, everything in your body freaks out like it's saying, 'No... don't do this,' but you still make that walk and do it. Going through those things and coming out on the other side, no matter how the fight turns out, is a win.

Avenging a loss to GSP, it's definitely on my radar.

I love kids and animals. I'm a pretty gentle guy.

There are players associations in all the other major sports. If the UFC is going to continue to grow and be legitimate, we have to get together. The fighters have to get together and have some leverage.

Fitch isn't as much of a finisher as Thiago Alves, he's more about grinding his opponent into the ground - literally. With my jiu-jitsu, I could withstand that and do better than a lot of guys have done.

Fights like that, when I have been in those really gritty wars, that's what I live for. I love that stuff.

I feel like I just have the ability to threaten from any position, whether we're standing or the fight is on the ground.

I think I outperformed my actual abilities a lot by just rising to the occasion, and that's kind of what I think I thrived on for a long time.

The high-profile fights are what matter to me because I have a family to take care of. That's how I put food on the table. That's my job.

I've always been a big fan of Georges. I've admired his style and kind of the way he carries himself, and I'm honored to get in there and challenge him for the belt and step in the cage with him.

There are a lot of different things we have in the tool box in every different fight, but depending on the matchup we decide what we are going to take out and kind of play with.

Just because a musician writes a great album doesn't mean they don't want to continue writing great music.

I am gradually building my career fighting tougher and tougher opponents.

I try to inflict as much damage as possible, at all costs.

In high school we'd grapple on my friend's trampoline for hours. Sometimes we'd have a party at a house. We'd take challenge matches and throw down with different people. By we, I mean me. My friends usually just watched until the other guy's friends jumped in.

My best friend from up the street, another really tough kid, we'd box every day after school, starting around 6th or 7th grade. We would go in the backyard, and we would slug out. We'd box until we got tired or until somebody quit. Other kids would come over, and they would want to box. Most of the time they didn't fare too well.

When I was 20, 21, 22 years old, I was making really good money for a 22-year-old, but it wasn't a huge pot. And of course I made a lot of mistakes. I'm glad I got to make those mistakes with a smaller pool of money and learn from it as opposed to learning the hard way with bigger amounts of money when there would be more consequences.

I knew that in fighting, sometimes you get your butt kicked and sometimes, you do the butt-kicking. It was always a matter of trying to learn and trying to get better.