Quotes from Carlos Condit

In the cage, you can't say, 'Oh wait, that's off limits.' There's no timeouts, there's no substitutions and there's no saying my knee is off limits. This is a full contact sport.

A guy like Tyron Woodley, he hits like a truck. I know personally.

I did the best that I could in preparing for Georges, knowing what I knew. Some things worked, and some things didn't.

Greg Jackson and Mike Winkeljohn are so, so good at what they do in the mixed martial arts game.

In my career, my motivation has ebbed and flowed. Sometimes I was all about it, sometimes I felt really burnt out.

I've been eight weeks into a fight camp, two weeks out from a fight, having paid coaches, booked plane tickets, and invested quite a bit of money in my camp, only to not be able to fight because my opponent got hurt. Boom. I'm out that money. It sucks.

I've had the interim belt before and that little interim specification bothers me.

I've beaten a lot of guys where I've been the underdog throughout my career. And, I've made a career out of and I've taken a lot of pleasure in proving doubters wrong. And, you do that enough times and you start to believe in your abilities.

I've been looked past the majority of my career. I'm overlooked, underestimated.

I was supposed to fight Paul Daley a while back. I got staph infection in my hand and had to pull out of the fight. There's some unfinished business there. I like that fight.

The difference is that the money I make from Reebok is per fight, meaning I have to fight to get that money. If I don't fight, there is no money. It's not based on me being a good spokesman or one of the faces of their company. It's a per fight thing. It's a very different thing. It's more like a fight bonus than a sponsorship.

By the time I got the notoriety to get bigger sponsors, the sponsorship tax had already taken effect, but I still had some pretty lucrative sponsors.

I'm an emotional guy, I cry at movies, man, so beating GSP and winning the world title... yeah, I'll probably cry in the Octagon.

I don't think I need the rematch. I won the fight; I think I'd win a rematch. But the thing about it is, I want to be in big fights, fights where there's a lot of buzz, a lot of people wanting to see the fight, and a rematch with Nick Diaz fits the bill.

I wasn't going to be able to re-grow my ACL back overnight. I was where I was with this and I just had to accept it. I had to stay focused on getting back. Honestly, I kind of felt in a weird way lucky because it was 12 years into my career that this happened.

Georges is one of the best guys that's ever stepped in the Octagon. That's actually the main reason I want to fight him. I look for a challenge. To be the best, you've gotta beat the best. And Georges St-Pierre is the best.

The object is to hit the other guy and not get hit. I think the least amount of damage you can take is the best route.

If you are competing at a high level, you have to accept that there are going to be ups and downs, because that is part of this business.

My life is just like anybody else, there's ups and downs, but I always have to put it in perspective.

When I have that sinking feeling in my stomach before a fight and I have that dread that I'm going to step in there with a savage who is coming in there to hurt me... I have my best fights. I'm at my best under those circumstances.

I think in training is where a lot of the injuries occur, or at least start.

While I'm in training camp, I don't do a whole lot of live wrestling, because I feel like that's where most of my injuries occur.

Fighting is an important part of my life, but it's only one part of my life. The last thing I want to be is one-dimensional, as a fighter or as a person.

Georges is very good at what he does. He's got great wrestling. He's got some very, very quick, effective strikes.