Great opportunities are not seen with your eyes. They are seen with your mind.
Keep positive and keep pushing on and things will turn good.
I pursue this dream and carry on. I don't dwell too much on the outside, I just focus on the inside.
Pain is part of the sport.
Fourteen weeks before the Mendes fight I tore 80 per cent of my ACL [anterior cruciate ligament]. That is the main ligament for stability. Every day in that training camp when I was working my way back, I was saying "real champions fight through any adversity". That is why I am a real champion and he is not. Look at my eye [he had seven stitches put in an old wound after an injury in training the night before we met]. Fighters fight on. Aldo got scared, he went running and I worry he will run again.
I don't believe in talent. Talent doesn't exist.
Real champions fight through adversity.
I always wanted to be able to buy nice things, but the appeal of music was the escapism.
The money paid at consumption is paid by everybody, including illegals, prostitutes, pimps, drug dealers.
I'm part of the Ipod generation. I got 10,000 tracks from all over the world.
Our job is obvious: we need to get out of the way, shine a light, and empower a new generation to teach itself and to go further and faster than any generation ever has.