Quotes About Integrity

I'm a very respectful fighter, I don't get out of character and start talking crazy, but if you don't want to fight a fighter, or you don't think it's a good style, or it's just not time, then say that.

I'm always fighter. I'm always fighter first. I voice that opinion, which sometimes gets me in trouble, but as long as you're true to yourself, you're going to be all right.

I don't want to be a cookie-cutter-poster-boy-bubble-gum-chewing fighter.

I'm a purist, and I'm more a fighter than an athlete.

I like most of the guys in the sport. They're my friends. We're not going to mistreat the fighters. I wouldn't mistreat a friend and so I won't mistreat my fighters.

I don't know how much the other fighters make. But I need to tell you that, for myself, money is not the first consideration.

There are those kind of fighters that just go in to get paid. That's not me, man. I have never been that guy.

When it comes to fighting and other fighters, I try to be respectful.

I only fight clean fighters. I'll fight anybody in the UFC that's clean. Or dirty. Or clean.

Kirkland and Khan are chinny fighters. I am not like that.

At the end of the day, us fighters, all we have is respect.

I feel like we have a duty as fighters to try and be a better example.

I ask myself, does Slipknot want to play next to the Foo Fighters? The answer is no, because my kids don't want me to do that.

Give me some real chocolate. Real fighters eat real chocolate.

At the end of the day, does the UFC really like its fighters?

I may not be fighting the most popular guys like Canelo or GGG. But I am fighting real fighters, tough guys who want to prove that they belong and be world champions.

Fighters need someone they can trust. We can't trust anybody.

Scott Coker's a martial artist. He's an honest guy. If you ask him to do something he'll do it, or else he'll tell you why he can't do it. That's what fighters need.

I like fighting because it's honest.

As you fight corruption, it fights back.

I don't like to use - I never use - any kind of drugs to help me in my fights. I don't like that. I don't like drugs.

If you paid me $2 million, I'm sure I could lose my belly. But I don't get paid to look a certain way. I get paid to win fights. That's what I concentrate on.

I don't understand why everyone fights for power, money, fame.

I didn't get into too many fights when I was younger. I think I got into, like, one fight when I was in high school, and that was because someone was being rude towards my mom, and that was it.