Greg Hardy

I can do whatever I want. I'm the Kraken.

The one thing that holds consistent is - there's always going to be ups and downs in deals - but good players are going to get paid. Or good players with good agents.

If you're on the football field, I'm probably going to try to hurt you. It's just how I play. Nothing more, nothing less.

If you make me happy, I'm going to make you smile.

I say whatever I feel like saying.

There's a time to play and a time not to play. Just don't catch me on a bad day or you're going to get something that you're not going to like.

You can't do your job thinking about the money. I didn't go to college for that.

If you're going to pay an agent... you need to let him do his job.

I've been doing this for a long time, telling the truth.

I win games. I like games. That's how I feel I do my best, when I perform in big games. I feel I'm free.

I've got a bad attitude.

Anybody that goes against me is going to have a bad day.

I'm a really, really angry person.

The Kraken is a giant monster that just demolishes everything that moves. On Wednesday or Thursday, I go down in my subconscious. I find him, and I unlock the cage. About Saturday he usually comes out. Then he's always out on Sunday. I don't control him then. What he does when I'm not there, I don't know.

With all that I've been through, I deserve to be fun-loving.

I want to play at 275 pounds.

I'm a Pro Bowl defensive end.

I'm a beast.

I'm gonna keep improving. Keep watching. I know it's gonna keep being entertaining as hell.

Really, the only people that do want to fight me are the people that haven't been in there with me yet. It's a dangerous game and those punches aren't coming light.

Everybody said I was ducking opponents.

I took a big hit as far as a personal reputation can take - from a loved person to a really hated person.

To come here to ATT with all the people you get to see on TV, all the champions, all the world-class fighters, you get humbled really fast. That happened to me, and I had to deal with a lot of emotions.

I'm versatile, you know?

I think I could be one of - if not the - greatest fight sports heavyweight of all-time. Not even just MMA, just the greatest combat sports heavyweight.

All I hear is the people that appreciate me.

God gives you opportunities and chances, and you make those decisions and choices. Every decision and choice I've made, I have made it.

I just don't have a lot of hate for people.

I have no malice in my heart for anybody.

When you're talking about peasants and children - obviously I've got some experience dealing with children - when you deal with children they act out and the lash out.

I've got some of the greatest coaches in the world at American Top Team.

Who am I to question fans? These are the people that pay my salary so they have the right to have opinions, they have the right to be who they are.

You take your steps, you don't skip through and try to go straight to the top, that's just disrespectful.

A man who wants to beat my face in because he wants to be the best in the world, that makes sense. But a boy, a child who runs his mouth for likes and views and jumps on a side that he has no information on, no idea about, it's kind of sad to me. So I don't respect that at all.

I'm hyped up by true competitors, I'm hyped up by real athletes and sportsmen.

I think it's an amazing thing, the way people can change and open up. It shows how humanity is still alive in the world and how we can get better. We're the most adaptable, phenomenal machines ever created.

Once I changed my perspective and changed my heart, I started getting a warmer welcome.

The UFC always has my back.

Losers don't get to talk, man.

Tom Brady, Cam Newton, these guys are titans, these guys are monsters in the game.

I've been alongside titans for my whole life. Michael Oher, Greg Oden, Joakim Noah, Al Horford, I played against these guys in college.

Like I said before in my earlier interviews when I was just starting, I'm not a CM Punk. Like, I'm not here to jump in, take whoopings, and cash checks.

I've had a lot of years of football so I've been in control of power for a very long time.

Even though you can hit a quarterback, it's not always in your best interest.

I wasn't looking for my flaws when I was winning. Like, I couldn't see them, I didn't want to see them.

I'm a grown man.

Go ask Tom Brady if I ever cheated when I sacked him. I'm not a cheater. That's not on my record, that's not on my resume.

I'm trying to get some Pro Bowls, All-Pros and whatnot. I've got to keep my head down, keep grinding.

The best thing for any team is to make the quarterback feel pain. You've got to be respectful of the rules of the game and honestly you don't want to hurt anybody, but to make him feel you is to bring his eyes down.

You don't want a quarterback like Eli Manning looking down the field, ever. Ever, ever, ever.