COLBY COVINGTON

Who retires before they even get to the UFC? Losers, that's who.

Ricardo Liborio is a joke.

I'm ATT to the bone. I have my close circle of people, my clique - Jorge Masvidal, Mike Brown, Dan Lambert. I'm not friends with everybody. It's a gym, but this is a one-man sport.

I like fighting, man. I didn't get into this sport not to fight. I enjoy fighting; I actually enjoy getting in the cage.

There's always going to be cliques - everywhere you go, there's gonna be cliques; there's gonna be people that gravitate towards each other.

I'm the bad guy of the division.

It gets a little tough when you're cutting weight to travel all over the place, when you want to focus on really getting yourself ready to peak for your fight.

Everybody's calling me out. Why do you think everybody wants to fight me? I'm the money fight.

I'm always training, whether I'm training my mind, or I'm training my body. I'm always doing something.

Nothing about Ben Askren impresses me. He's a one-dimensional fighter. He's never hurt a fly.

Every time the UFC brings me out, I'm always professional. I'm always on time. I make weight.

I don't care about people's feelings, and I'm triggering people worldwide.

I've really taken a lot of time to work on my Karate, worked on my kickboxing, and Muay Thai.

Guys have a lot more to worry about when they're fighting me than they do fighting Khabib. He's just one-dimensional.

Everybody in the world knows how good I am.

If the UFC wanted to give me Warlley Alves, I would show them how chump change he is. And I'd show them how much of a fluke it was that he caught me in a lucky submission.

In the wrestling world, we say the Judo guys are just the leftover wrestlers that couldn't make the wrestling team.

You have to have a character; you have to build your character. If you understand the pro wrestling scheme of things, then you understand what the promoting is. These guys are friendly backstage, but as soon as the cameras turn on, it's a whole different story: you become that character.

The UFC thinks they run off their brand, but that's not true. The UFC runs off the fighters, so hopefully, these fighters take notice and how I'm going about my business.

At the end of the day, we're professional prizefighters - stop acting like street thugs. We're not going to fight in the streets.

The guys at Team Alpha Male, they're my friends. I have a lot of respect for those guys.

It's not OK to condone violence because of free speech.

I know that my grappling is up there with any grappler in the division.

If I can't do one thing, which is a lower body exercise, then I'm gonna use my upper body, and I'm gonna get stronger upper body. If I'm not getting stronger upper body, I'll be working on my cardiovascular - swimming or other exercises where I can get my heart rate up.

I'm in this to be the best fighter in the world, to put on entertaining shows, and to please the fans.