Quotes from Stipe Miocic

I understand it's promotion, but no one ever gave me a chance. No one ever thought I'd be the champ, and look where I'm at now.

Junior Dos Santos is one of the best heavyweight fighters of all time, and he has proven it by being a champion. That is something that I want to be in my career, and I understand to achieve that, I have to beat guys like him.

At the end of the day, it's a fight, and anything can happen.

When I do become the champion, I'll still be a fire fighter.

One guy might be ranked higher, but it doesn't mean anything. Where these fights go, lots of things can happen.

I love what I do, both aspects - fighting and being a firefighter and paramedic.

I'll always be a firefighter, no matter what.

All you can do is the same as any other fight: whoever they put in front of you, you go in there and try to get the W.

Whoever they want me to fight, I'm going to fight. So I really don't care.

It's up to the UFC. Whoever they put in front of me, I'll fight.

I've wrestled my whole life, and when I got done with college, I went back to school to become a firefighter. I liked MMA, but I didn't really know if I wanted to get punched in the face!

It's nice to see different places and different parts of the world. It's pretty cool, though I hate flying!

I've fought the best guys in the world, and I've beat the best guys in the world.

I'm actually pretty frugal with my money.

You are a role model to people. You gotta make sure you're doing the right thing.

I'm not going to throw haymakers the whole fight; I'll gas out.

People don't want to give me credit, which is fine.

When you train as hard as we do, bad things happen sometimes. It's just part of the sport.

I lived with my mom my whole life; her work ethic was ridiculous, and it hasn't changed.

I just want to work hard and have good fights.

I had to work hard to keep up with my mom. That's where I learned it from. She's a freak.

I just work hard at everything I do. If there's something I need to learn, I stick to it, I learn it and put everything I have toward it.

Everyone has 4 ounce gloves on, and they're big boys, and they can throw hard.

I think everyone has knockout power. I mean, it's the heavyweight division.