Kamaru Usman

As an African, there are certain professions your family want you to do or are willing to sign off. Being in the medical professional, as a doctor, pharmacist, a nurse, or being an engineer - those are the only professions allowed!

When you aren't able to do what makes you dominant, what separates you from the pack, it can throw your mind off.

We never complained, 'We don't have this or that.' Even though we had to plant certain things and harvest them to be able to eat, we never complained.

In other countries, being from somewhere else is celebrated. But not in America.

Some guys just like being a fighter, and they live in that world, but I got into this to be champion.

I believe, if I beat Demian Maia, it's going to be very hard for the other top guys to go around me.

I will be unhappy if RDA ducks me. I will be very unhappy.

One thing about me is that my parents didn't force me to be an athlete.

When I fought in The Ultimate Fighter Finale, I had microfracture surgery, and that's usually eight month's recovery turnaround. I had to fight three months after that, and I fought three months after that. And I had to train through that with that.

I would love to fight a lot more often, but of course it's the UFC, and whenever they feel that they have an opening, then they can put us in there because there's so many fighters.

I'm a people watcher, and I love to listen.

I love to study people, and that's basically what sociology is.