Growing up, I was poor. In college, I was poor. I never had anything.

The biggest challenge is learning how to psych yourself up into believing in yourself as you walk into the Octagon.

I will get out there and train harder than anyone, five times a day sometimes. You have to be a special person to do that - like, special forces, military maybe.

Being labeled as someone who would cheat hurts more than anything else I've ever been through in my career.

Football, that's just athletics. But in the business world - doing everything - people are competing. So you need good work ethics, and I think it helped me to develop good work ethics, being in a small town.

Understanding why we are here, what we are supposed to be doing, relationships, and striving to do more other than play football - when you get understanding like that and apply it, it works wonders.

The players have competed on the level the last 25 or 30 years are always going to be the players that compete at a high level. These guys practice hard, they work on their game, they still hit the ball extremely well.

I always felt most at home on a basketball court, dating all the way back to when I was growing up in Brooklyn.