JUSTIN GAETHJE

I get paid by the fight, not by the minute.

You could be the best in the world, but it doesn't matter. It's four-ounce gloves. I've been dropped in practice with a knee to the body. I take a good knee to the body and break my ribs in the fight, I lost. I mean, it's a fight.

The way you stop a takedown in wrestling is to meet force with force. You don't try to go away.

I want the best money, and obviously the highest ceiling that you can be the best is in the UFC. But yeah, I praise Bellator. They gave me a great offer.

People love the fact Chael Sonnen is saying he's undefeated. It's crazy to me that people like something like that but don't give respect to the fighters that just put it on the line.

I don't get hit a ton on the button.

I just like punching loudmouths in the face.

I'm hoping to earn enough to buy a few properties, that way I can make money that way and I want to do social work.

I love the sport, I'm a fan of MMA, I've been a fan of MMA since before I started it, I was a fan of Eddie Alvarez before I started fighting, so just the culmination of events that have transpired in my life through hard work, through specifically hard work, it's just, I'm happy.

I watched the UFC way back in the day, before there were time limits. I always knew it's what I wanted to do some day.

I went to college, I wrestled and I took some amateur fights. When I graduated, I wanted to start using my degree, but I figured I would start fighting professionally. Then I won 18 in a row and I fought Eddie Alvarez on pay-per-view.

My timing and pressure is the definition of MMA.

You will regret not seeing me fight live.

I wish I was fighting Jason High in his hometown. I would put him to sleep in front of all his fans. He's mainly a wrestler, but I'm an All-American wrestler. So I'm really not worried about Jason High.

You have to learn how to fight through when it sucks and it's really hard.

Do I think people are sleeping on me? Absolutely.

Natural human instinct, reaction, whatever, is if you're perfect, you're going to try to skate by and get by, get away with things the easiest way possible.

Georges St-Pierre's doing it the best. He made his money, made his name, and now he's able to make money not fighting. That's what I want to do.

A lot of people say I'm reckless and I take too many shots. I take shots on the forehead. There's nothing wrong with that. It puts me in punching range.

What I do is not for the faint of heart, but I'm a different breed.

God, it's such an unforgiving sport.

I should never be trying to avoid something in a fight, especially something I'm good at.

This is a making-money business, and the only way to make money is knocking people out. Lying on someone? That's pathetic to me. You gotta drop a bomb.

I win and lose in one way. And that's either putting them to sleep or putting it on the line and going to sleep.

I want the biggest fights possible.