Quotes from Stipe Miocic

Listen, anyone in the heavyweight division in the top ten, there is no easy fight. I don't care what you say.

During a night shift, I'll work out twice during the day. If I have to work during the day, I usually have guys at the station who will work out with me. Then at night, I'll go train.

I've got a great team around me. They keep me working hard; they keep me focused.

I'm hungrier than all of them. They didn't put in the effort that I did to get the title. So I don't care what it takes - I'm not giving up that title. I worked too hard to get it, and I'm not going to lose it.

People have always worn Cleveland shirts and supported Cleveland no matter how bad the teams were or how close we were. It didn't matter. That's really all about the city. We're just hardworking people that love the city and don't care how the teams do.

I fell for my own hype. I had too many people saying I couldn't be beat, and I actually fell for it.

In the fight with Hunt, all I can say is it was a good night for me. I'm happy to get out of there without taking too much damage, and I'd take that every time.

When my wife was getting a lease for her Jeep Cherokee, and I saw a Dodge Ram Sport, I thought, 'Oh wow, it's amazing.'

I'm going to do what I want to do. If he wants to go to the ground, that's fine. I'm a wrestler.

I'm not scared to go to the ground. I've been wrestling my whole life. I've done a lot of jiu jitsu, but I like standing up, and every fight starts there.

MMA was like wrestling; I love competition.

Listen man, Andrei Arlovski is a tough guy, but he hasn't fought the caliber of opponents I've been fighting.

You can look at it and say I'm doing this better or that better, but the bottom line is, I just learned to be mentally tougher.

I wouldn't want my corner throwing in the towel no matter what. I wouldn't want my corner to do that.

I traded my 2002 Silverado in for the Trailblazer, and after my second fight, I got a win bonus. It was the knockout-of-the-night bonus, $50,000, and I paid the rest of my car off, and I gave it to my mother because I had a sponsorship with a Chevy dealership.

I trained for about a year before I had my first amateur fight. I won by knockout, and then, for my second fight, the guy didn't even show up.

Cro Cop is one of the best in the world and such a great guy. It was awesome to train with him. There's nothing better than working with him, and it was a great experience.

The sport wouldn't be what it is without the fans, and at UFC 189, watching the Irish fans screaming 'Ole Ole Ole' was pretty amazing.

Anthony 'Rumble' Johnson hits hard. You gotta watch out for him. He's got hammers as fists.

Saving people, helping people, is just something I always wanted to do.

Fabio Maldonado jumped up to heavyweight for our fight, and while he wasn't ranked, he is a super-tough dude and had never been knocked out before.

Cleveland's a great city. I love the city. The people here are awesome. They're loyal and hard-working, and they're loyal to our sports scene, and things are changing here.

I'm just happy the city has something to be proud of. The Cavs, the Indians, the Monsters. It just shows that we are the land of champions.

DC is good all round. He pushes the pace, makes you think what you're doing, makes you uncomfortable.