You just have to stay positive.
Football is my first passion. I've played it since I was a little kid.
When I started wrestling in the eighth grade, I just fell in love with it, and started shifting my focus more to that. I considered playing in college, but it made more sense for me to wrestle, because I weigh about a buck fifty.
Good health is true wealth.
I want to be a multi-time champion. I want to be a multiple division champion. I still have a lot of goals; it is a matter of staying the course, being consistent and persistent, and making it happens.
As far as fighting, I just love to fight and enjoy my life more because of that. I think that it is pretty apparent to those who know me that I do this because of the love. I am not looking to get famous or acquire a bunch of cash. I am following my passion and that's what is about for me.
I think my parents gave me a unique name and I have created this unique lifestyle that makes me who I am; it's a cool way of living.
I avoid long layoffs and I try to stay in shape at all times.
It's perfectly okay to fail. It sounds corny, but it truly is about the journey.
I hate to lose but having the belt doesn't define who I am. It's how I live my life and what I put into things is what defines me.
My mom's never liked the fact that there's an option for people to punch me in the face, but she likes that I'm doing what I love, and she enjoys a lot of the different perks that go along with it. She just thinks they should change the rules and make it so no one can hit me in the face.
The fight world is definitely a masculine thing, but I think it's pretty masculine if someone can avoid a fight also.
I know who I am, and that never changes.
A lot of fights in my life have been avoided through confidence and demeanor, so that's pretty masculine also.
I sometimes get caught up in the big goals...That aren't really the ultimate goal, which is to be happy for what you have.
I think one of my biggest strengths overall is staying in the moment.
I just happen to love fighting and happen to be great at it. And I let my lifestyle carry over into my chosen profession.
You just learn one thing for the day, that can change a fight.
I don't ever look past anyone or think that they're not worthy. Of course they're worthy, they're warriors.
Champions know that there's something inside that makes a champion, and other people think that it might something external.
