Cody Garbrandt

You can never be too high off the winning, or too low off a loss.

There's so many dudes that I'd like to fight at the top.

Dominick Cruz, that would be a fun rematch.

I probably would never fight Urijah for the belt to be honest. It's not going to be a money thing for me that would give me that fight. I've got a lot of respect for him, I really do. A really humble dude, he's been nothing but honest and real to me ever since the first day I met him.

Dominick Cruz can't knock anybody out. He's got grapes for hands.

That's why I jumped into the UFC and the fight game to do this, it's to be the greatest.

Lord willing, I'll have longevity and have a lot of success.

Under two years in the UFC, I became a world champion. That's a fast track.

I was fighting the best, am the best, will be the best.

I was 25 years old, a world champion.

Some people look at a loss and it's devastating, it's the end of the world, they go in a downward spiral and they let dirt get piled on them. You just got to brush yourself off. You can't let the dirt bury you.

Honestly, in this sport everyone is so good, everyone is so talented. You fight with four-ounce gloves on - in a perfect world, you'd be undefeated and walk away. That's a small percentage. That's Floyd Mayweather.

You've got to have a short memory in this game, and move forward. Pick yourself up after a loss, and check yourself after a win.

I truly believe I'm the best in the world.

I can easily make 125 pounds.

I feel like I'm one of the best boxers in the UFC.

I think going in a boxing ring with Conor would be great, or in MMA... No ill will towards the guy but I actually believe I'm a better boxer.

I really like people who stick with their fellow countrymen.

I have respect for Bryan Caraway.

I'm the hardest puncher, the fastest fighter in my division.

I have the heaviest hands in my division.

You can put 10 Dominick Cruz's in front of me, I'll knock them all out. 10 out of 10.

UFC 203, Stipe Miocic is defending his belt in Cleveland, Ohio, that's where I spent a lot of my amateur career and boxing, it's an hour and 20 minutes from my hometown. I would like to dance with someone there in the Quicken Loans Arena.

The higher the opponent for me, the more that I shine.

Before I got in the UFC, I wrote down on a piece of paper a goal that I was going to make it to the UFC in 2015 and then I'll be the world champion before 2017 so I'm right on track. I pull out that piece of paper all the time and look at it. It's motivation.

All I've got to do is win at the end of the day and the checks keep coming in.

I go out there and live or die by the sword and I'm willing to put the work in that needs to be to obtain the goal that I set out to do.

I've always been brought up on loyalty.

I lost an amateur fight where it was supposed to be my last amateur fight before going pro and people were like, 'Oh, you think you're going to make this? You just got knocked out as an amateur?' And I went on to win 13 fights straight and become a world champion, the best in the world.

I'm not going to die with dreams, I'm going to die with memories.

Win or lose, when I outclassed Dominick Cruz, I gave him my respect.

I went from the top of the world 11-0, 25 years old, world champion to a three-fight skid.

I want some big money. I feel like I'm a good ticket-seller.

I can judge someone by body language and eyes.

I think Jose Aldo is tough, I respect him, but I want to test his chin.

I know I hit like a Mack Truck.

I'm in this sport to challenge myself.

Can't fight destiny. It's my destiny to be a world champion.

I go from unranked to world champion in one year.

I've some investments, I've got good people in my life managing my money.

My money thing, I never wanted to have my motivation to be money, that's not why I got into this sport, I got into it to be a world champion.

That's what I'm here to prove, that I am the best.

Aldo's game. You don't get those accolades that he's achieved, the accomplishments that he's achieved without being one of the best.

I have the utmost respect for Thomas Almeida.

I've always felt in my career - fighting, wrestling, boxing - that the bigger the fight is for me, the more the pressure is on, the more that I shine. The more that the best comes out in me.

I'm gonna be a better McGregor. I'm gonna be the American superstar. He's the Ireland superstar.

What's great about this sport is the individuality of it. Everyone is different. Everyone has a different fighting style, different fan base. You can build your own self. You're kind of self made in this game.

Obviously I'm a professional at all times. But we're in the fight game. Crazy stuff can happen.

I barely graduated high school.

T.J.'s not a good person. He's not a good person. He's kind of a generic version of Dominick Cruz.