Nick Diaz

I had my mom drive me to practice everywhere. I'm really grateful I had her.

I'm the original Conor McGregor. I'm the original model of Conor McGregor. He wouldn't be who he is if it wasn't for me. Nothing against him. I'm the original real deal.

Every other fighter has a life on the side. I've never had another job.

I didn't graduate eighth grade. I could have, but I got into too many fights in middle school.

I just never try to beat somebody on the scorecards. It's never happened. It's not in me, I think.

I don't know how they judge fights sometimes.

I'm gonna talk my talk, I'm gonna walk my walk.

I'm just going to do what I always do: train. And when it's time to fight, I go fight.

I've been watching Frank Shamrock fight since the beginning.

I just want to display my skills to the world because I can do it all.

I love jiu-jitsu, and I love my team.

Sometimes you win some, sometimes you lose some, sometimes you can't be at 100 percent.

I'm fighting hard, I'm training hard. I'm still walking over people and stepping over people to get where I'm going and I would really like to give back especially to my mom, who was there for me when I was a kid.

If anybody wants to fight me they know where to find me. I'm not a hard guy to find. Come get some.

I will tell you right now, I want to fight the No. 1 fighter in the world. I always said that I want to fight the No. 1 fighter.

I do get paid well as an MMA fighter, but this isn't boxing and I feel like we should get paid like this is boxing.

I don't care about the Strikeforce belt.

I'm scared of any fighter I've ever fought because they are some dangerous people to be dealing with.

A lot of guys have to worry about what their wives and kids think, I don't.

I am a fighter. It's what I am.

I held off on having kids and getting married so I could fight. I gave my life to this.

My first experience of doing martial arts was weird, real traditional, strange smell with incense burning. We did a lot of bowing, it was a lot of path of least resistance and go with the flow... Really good stuff for when you're at a young age.

I did aikido when I was four years old.

This is my life. It's everything I do, train eight-hour days every day.

I think for hundreds of years or for a much longer time, people have been fighting, professional athletes have been fighting in a ring. So it's just the way it should be. There's no sense in making it a cage.

I'm a pay-per-view without a title.

Martial arts, when I do martial arts, it's more of a life type of training.

I just try to be as healthy as I can, pretty much.

I'm not fanatical or in love with being an MMA fighter.

For me, I already fought some of the best people there are. I already did, you know, what I need to do for me.

People want to see real skill level, real Jiu Jitsu, real boxing, put together and mixed up. They want to see mixed martial arts. They don't want to see five minutes of holding. I think there should be points deducted when you do that.

I will always tell the truth.

I may not be able to keep fighting for money for a living, but I will always have to fight for my dignity, because that's who I am.

In order to love fighting, I have to hate it.

Belts aren't important. It's the fights that are important. Important to the fans, important to the show.

You can't lie to the fans. They know what they want to see.

Everybody wants to do a fight with me, champions at 170, champions at 185.

I have a cage at home, I have a cage at all the gyms I train.

Once I turned pro, I was like okay, this is not fun and games now.

I'm not out here trying putting on an act like I'm crazy. In my opinion, everyone else is crazy. They're the ones who put on an act for you, doing what they're told in front of the camera.

I've learned from my mistakes in the past, why I thought I've lost fights before.

I don't like to hurt people for fun.

There's no reason for me to come and fight for fun. I don't do that. That's not what I do.

Sometimes I feel like I'm the only one who's in tune with what's really going on.

I don't recommend anybody becoming a fighter.

It's a really complicated road if you're an MMA fighter.

Fighting is not something that I enjoy doing. It's something that I do that I feel that I have to do.

When someone tells you a fighter's injured and they tell you to go after an injury, it really throws you off.

You know, I'm never really 100-percent in any of those fights, because it's so hard to have perfect preparation for fighting and cutting weight and making 170 pounds, and being in the best shape for training camp and to make that cut.

I love athletics and martial-arts and competition because it gets me right and puts me in the right place.