Quotes About Victory

We always want the knockout or the submission.

I've been doing everything people like to see: knock people out, and submissions, and go in there to fight.

If the UFC wanted to give me Warlley Alves, I would show them how chump change he is. And I'd show them how much of a fluke it was that he caught me in a lucky submission.

Everybody would rather get a quick submission, a quick knockout.

I'm not picky; I'll get it how I can take it. Submission, KO - whatever it is, if it has me winning, I'll take it.

I always go forward and try for the knockout or submission. I'm going to finish my opponent. I'm not going to try to win by decision.

The striking game is always a lottery game, so I prefer to take the safe situation. Submission is the best for me. I'm the guy looking for it all the time.

Fedor has great killer instinct, he's tough, he's strong. If I fought him I'd try to catch him in a submission, but I don't know if Fedor can be beaten.

Yeah, I want these fights where people are going to stand in front of me and I'm going to knock them out. But is that going to be best for me in the long run? Probably not. I want those situations and knockouts and submissions against guys who won't just give them to me.

I'm a guy who looks to put the pressure and come out with the knockout or the submission.

Brock Lesnar will never be able to beat me because he has no submission skills. What's he going to do, knock me out?

I've finished fights from my feet, I've finished fights with my ground-and-pound, and I've finished fights from my back with a submission, from top with submission. You name it, and I've finished a fight that way.

I have made mistakes, but I didn't make them again. Even when I struggled, I promised myself never to submit in life.

I feel like I can submit Khabib, but feel like I'm going to stop him. I don't know how it's going to happen, but I'm either going to knock him out or I'm going to submit him. I'm going to finish Khabib Nurmagomedov.

I was the second guy to submit Jim Miller, so I'm up there in catching guys that have been deemed uncatchable.

Of course I will submit if I have a chance, but I always prefer to finish a fight in a stand-up position.

I think McGregor is a super fighter, he has great striking, has gotten better with his wrestling, has good jiu-jitsu, and gets a bit tired after the first or second round. I have a strategy to beat him, and I think I would win. I won't say I'd knock him out or submit him, but I know for sure my hands would be raised in the end.

I've knocked people out from the clinch. I've submitted people from armbars, Kimura, last-second armbars. I've knocked people out with one-hand punch.

Males have probably always enjoyed watching the defeat of other males, but without the invention of numerals and the subsequent invention of the concept of keeping score, we could never have had a million sports channels.

Landing substantial and author-backed roles is indeed very gratifying.

You can't succeed if you don't know what losing is.

I've always had a will to succeed, to win, however you phrase it.

I would never know how good I was if I didn't have Bob Arum. Bob Arum is white, Jewish; He was working for prosecutor's office. I'm black, an ex-convict, ex-number runner. Who would be most likely to succeed? It would be Bob 100-1. Yet I beat Bob on everything we ever done, with love.

Sometimes you succeed and sometimes you don't.