Most of my fights, I push the pace. I'm the aggressor.

A true champion and athlete is never satisfied with their performance. You can always do more and always improve.

They say people from small towns have big dreams and that pretty much describes me. I had big dreams growing up and I'm still a dreamer.

In this sport, in this life, I think heart takes you a lot further than skill and technique... Just digging down deep will take you a lot further in life.

I'm far from a saint.

People will respect what wrestling has to offer to this world. It will take educating themselves on more than just guys in there swinging for the fences.

You're speechless sometimes when you think of the support you've had from the first day I've started wrestling to now.

I consider myself a very driven and intense fighter.

I am in the Chicago Carpenters Union. They are huge supporters of mine and of MMA.

Well, if a Little Fuzzy finds a door open, I’d like to know why he shouldn’t come in and look around.

Don't pay attention to negative peer and societal pressures. They can never add more success and happiness to your life

Writing a book has about it some of the anxiety of telling a joke and having to wait several years to know whether or not it was funny.

If the melody is telling me this is what the song is about, then I'm sort of forced into confession, autobiography or fantasy. If I don't do that, I've hamstrung the melody.

With the people, for the people, by the people. I crack up when I hear it; I say, with the handful, for the handful, by the handful, cause that's what really happens.

There are no men like me. There's only me

God's name is not known; it is wondered at.

I didn't really like doing commercials. You had to behave like you were on angel dust or something.

I think cheesecake helps call attention to you. Then you can follow through and prove yourself.

We should not underestimate the ability of people to do wrong if they want to do so.