Quotes from Cain Velasquez

I take my health and the longevity of my career very seriously.

I'm not a boxer.

You need good coaches with a good gym that teach you the essentials, like boxing, kickboxing, wrestling, and pretty much all the stuff that you need to be successful in MMA.

I never go into a fight thinking, 'I have to finish this guy' - that's not a part of my game plan. I go out there and fight the way I fight.

Personally, most of my injuries were ones that I sustained during fights in the UFC, not in practice.

I'm still in the gym every day for training, putting in the same hard work every week. That's the only way I know how to do it.

Not being active, your name doesn't go out there as much, and you lose the popularity thing. Also, you're not able to make a living. This is what we do to make a living: we go out there and fight. Not being able to fight for a year and a half and not able to bring in money, it definitely sets you back.

For me, 240 is my target weight.

You always try to make your teammates better. You help out your teammates, and they help you out in return. As they get better and better, they can help you more and more. At least, I've always seen it that way.

I will be the first to say when I know I can't fight due to injury, as my long-term health is my number one priority.

You have to set up the right technique to get that takedown. It can't just be any shot. You have to really set it up.

I have the Mexican blood. I'm proud to be Mexican.

That's how fighters get better. They watch film, and they work on what they need to work on.

Fighting is what I love to do.

I'm going to be the best fighter I can be and focus on being me.

I just look at what's ahead of me. I don't think about, 'For my legacy, I need to do this, this, and this.' I just focus on every fight and how to win that fight.

You just have to fight the perfect fight to win. You have to have a game plan and follow it. You have to develop every time you go out there and keep getting better.

This whole thing is - our window to be able to fight and make money is very short. It's a short window to be able to take advantage of this and make as much money as we can and save it for the future. When you're not fighting, and the money's not coming in, you can't do that, and that's the part that sucks about this job.

Seeing Mexicans in the media is rare. Seeing role models on TV is rare. So who do we look up to? We're not seen on football fields or basketball courts. So we look up to fighters; they're Mexican. They are out there fighting, representing their people, and winning champions. We look up to them.

MMA is so exciting. It doesn't matter if you know the rules or not. If you like a fight, it's automatically gonna draw you in.

Things happen for some reason. I don't know what, but I just think about the positives, focus on getting better, and that's it.

When you know you are 100% and, you know, are ready to go, you just have that feeling. You know you are going to perform well.

Where I grew up, we had enough to get by, and we had a lot of love. That took me a long way.

I just deal with what's at hand.