Quotes About Growth

Every fighter seeks evolution.

I've learned to be a different fighter, more responsible.

I believe coming in early to the UFC gives me an advantage. More time to learn, more time to be in the UFC and get better as a fighter.

Losing will make me a better fighter.

I have got better over the years, and I know what sort of fighter I am.

I have known, for me, that my fight in 'The Ultimate Fighter' can't be the way I went out.

I embraced every struggle because it made me the fighter I was.

All the losses that I had, I think they were important, just because it helped me grow as a fighter, helped me grow as a person.

I got time, I'm only 21, I've got room to learn and grow as a fighter.

I'm not the same fighter I used to be.

I just say to myself I'm going to be a better fighter day to day. That's my thing.

That's how fighters get better. They watch film, and they work on what they need to work on.

In Bellator, I feel like I can grow. As the fighters grow, I know the company will grow. You feel like a part of the company.

I started off and I didn't have the advantage like other fighters of having an amateur career to grow and learn and make mistakes. Unfortunately, I spent the early years of my professional career doing that, and I feel like I've learned from all those mistakes.

I was not fighting myself at all as I used to.

Seven years is a long time, and seven years of fighting the best guys in the best organization in the world, the biggest organization in the world, it hardens you. You don't stay seven years without evolving. It doesn't happen.

I wouldn't change anything because the mistakes and the hurt are as important as all the great fights. They made me who I am today.

Even when I was winning my fights, once it's over, it's over. It's in the past, and you've got to look forward.

I used to get into a lot of fights.

Yes, I came into this sport as just a grappler, but the more I learn, the more it shines in my fights.

I had a lot of fights in high school.

I believe the tough fights bring out the better fighter in myself.

I used to stay getting in fights.

I'm here to let everyone know I'm taking bigger fights and I'm not afraid on taking the bigger challenges.