Quotes from Sage Northcutt

Everybody who is fighting at UFC 200 is awesome! It's going to be awesome to get to meet everybody. I'm excited.

People say I don't have the experience. I might not have 20 MMA fights, but I've been fighting my whole life.

By the time I was 4 or 5, I was doing 250 push-ups and sit-ups a day. When I was 6, we bumped it up to about 500 push-ups and sit-ups a day. Some days it could even be 750 or 1,000.

At 155, I kind of feel, when I'm fighting out there, I just don't feel like I have the right thinking ability. I kind of feel like my mind is foggy, if that makes sense. I don't really know how to describe it. Maybe it's the weight cut.

I consider my MMA training starting the day I set foot in Urijah Faber's gym.

It can be kind of difficult because of the workload I have at Texas A&M, so I have to find time to study as I pursue my major, but also to travel and compete and train hard for my fights to come in the UFC.

I just want to say real quick, whatever kind of problems you've been going through, maybe you're having a hard time at work, maybe you're having a hard time with your family, whatever it might be, you can overcome that. You just have to keep your hope up.

Mr. Faber is a huge role model. He's a UFC Hall of Famer. He's such a driven person and a champion.

Every day at Team Alpha Male, I'm improving. The biggest thing with that camp is everyone is so positive and has the work ethic to go out there and push the pace and keep going and going and going.

I never get sick normally, but having strep throat three times in four months - that's pretty crazy.

Going into the UFC debut, you have to wonder what's going on, what's the workout going to be like. It's just an honor to be at an open workout.

I think that every single fight you have is to prove yourself. Even if you're the world champion, the UFC champion of the world, you're still proving yourself; people are coming to beat you.

Jon Jones is awesome and won his first world title at 23 and 8 months. I believe I can do it before then.

Houston is super cool, and Katy is super cool, and so is Sacramento.

Georges St-Pierre - he's so awesome. It was very great getting to roll around with him and getting to train with him. He's so nice and so friendly, and he's very humble, too.

I'm always very humble.

It's an incredible feeling, just to know that you have MMA fans that are behind you and want to know when your next fight will be.

I was at my house, and me, and my brother, and my sister were kind of just playing around. And I was like, 'I wonder if I can twist this apple and rip it apart?' So I was playing around, and I did it, and I was like, 'Wow, that kind of takes a firm grip.'

I want to be eventually be the best wrestler out there, be the best grappler out there, along with being the best striker - be all of them at one time.

CM Punk was a great wrestler, and he has so many fans and made a lot of people happy with what he did over the years.

People can say what they want. But you can silence a lot of people when you go out there and win.

I've trained my whole life, and I've always had the UFC be a goal of mine.

I might take a little time off from school to train. I'd be a totally different animal if I trained full time.

People see a lot of my standup, and that's what I'm known for since I was trained in karate and kickboxing, but I also have ground game.