Donald Cerrone

I've never pulled out of a fight, never not showed up to fight, so injured or not, I'm coming.

The young guys keep me motivated. Youngsters coming up behind me.

I want to be a professional wakeboarder.

Fighting in the UFC means that I'm at the top of the sport, and it means that I'm able to pursue my goal of being a champion in the UFC.

I see the business side of it and moving up the ladder towards the title. That's where the money's at. That's the overall goal.

When I got picked up by the Tapout crew and was featured on their reality show, that really jumpstarted my career.

Sometimes you just don't show up, and in our profession, it's a bad day.

I don't care where I fight on the card, but to get people motivated or excited, like, 'Cowboy's fighting!' that's my overall goal.

MMA makes you sore and tired every day. I wonder what we're going to be like when we're 50 or 60. I wake up some mornings and just say, 'Oh, God.' And then I go scuba diving.

I didn't really have intentions of fighting in MMA; it just kind of fell into place. Once I started fighting, though, I loved it, and I walked away from kickboxing right away.

We have no one to stand up for the fighters' rights. If something bad were to happen, no one backs him, and it's just him alone, and everything gets washed out. We need people to stand up and fight for it.

That Evan Dunham fight, I went back to not being serious. I was going to the lake and literally brought some wrestling mats down with me. We have a shop at the lake where we park the boat. I'd throw the mats in there, wakeboard all day, and train all night. I was having a good time, getting back to work.