Nick Diaz
If you don't find time to meditate and get all that negative out, and if you don't have the right people being positive around you, this is a very scary job to have if you don't learn how to control your fear.Collection: Positive
I love jiu-jitsu, and I love my team.
I just want to display my skills to the world because I can do it all.
I've been watching Frank Shamrock fight since the beginning.
I'm just going to do what I always do: train. And when it's time to fight, I go fight.
I don't know how they judge fights sometimes.
I just never try to beat somebody on the scorecards. It's never happened. It's not in me, I think.
My mom and dad taught me nothing but ABCs.
I didn't graduate eighth grade. I could have, but I got into too many fights in middle school.
Every other fighter has a life on the side. I've never had another job.
I'm the original Conor McGregor. I'm the original model of Conor McGregor. He wouldn't be who he is if it wasn't for me. Nothing against him. I'm the original real deal.
If anybody wants to fight me they know where to find me. I'm not a hard guy to find. Come get some.
I think it's rude of the UFC to try and lowball me and expect me to negotiate a deal while I'm training for a fight.
You know, I'm never really 100-percent in any of those fights, because it's so hard to have perfect preparation for fighting and cutting weight and making 170 pounds, and being in the best shape for training camp and to make that cut.
When someone tells you a fighter's injured and they tell you to go after an injury, it really throws you off.
Fighting is not something that I enjoy doing. It's something that I do that I feel that I have to do.
It's a really complicated road if you're an MMA fighter.
I don't recommend anybody becoming a fighter.
Sometimes I feel like I'm the only one who's in tune with what's really going on.
There's no reason for me to come and fight for fun. I don't do that. That's not what I do.
I don't like to hurt people for fun.
I'm trying to live life like a normal person.
I do what I've got to do to survive, to keep my teeth in my head, and my head on my shoulders. I apologize to whoever can't put that together and understand that.
I'm not out here trying putting on an act like I'm crazy. In my opinion, everyone else is crazy. They're the ones who put on an act for you, doing what they're told in front of the camera.
Don't tell me I'm crazy. I'm out here acting natural.
I don't owe nobody nothing.
Once I turned pro, I was like okay, this is not fun and games now.
I'm a pay-per-view without a title.
Everybody wants to do a fight with me, champions at 170, champions at 185.
You can't lie to the fans. They know what they want to see.
Belts aren't important. It's the fights that are important. Important to the fans, important to the show.
I may not be able to keep fighting for money for a living, but I will always have to fight for my dignity, because that's who I am.
I will always tell the truth.
I'd like to be thought of as someone who keeps it real.
I like Georges. I'm a fan of Georges St-Pierre. I appreciate everything he does, and how he does everything to win, and it meets the scoring criteria that sucks.
People want to see real skill level, real Jiu Jitsu, real boxing, put together and mixed up. They want to see mixed martial arts. They don't want to see five minutes of holding. I think there should be points deducted when you do that.
For me, I already fought some of the best people there are. I already did, you know, what I need to do for me.
I'm not fanatical or in love with being an MMA fighter.
For the most part, since the time I was in EliteXC fighting, maybe there were one or two fights here and there that they had me to win, but for the most part I've been an underdog. I'm not a kickboxer so I'm going to lose to a kickboxer. I'm not a wrestler, my wrestling sucks, so I'm going to lose to a wrestler.
I just try to be as healthy as I can, pretty much.
Martial arts, when I do martial arts, it's more of a life type of training.
Sometimes I'm like, man, I wish I'd just fall off, so people stop talking about me.
I don't like that I'm made out to be this evil person, who needs to be shot down and conquered.
You see me. What you see is what you get. You get real martial arts, you get real fighting, you get a real warrior mentality. Some people aren't mature enough to handle it.
Stockton is a great fight town because if you drive long enough on some of these roads, you'll probably see a pretty good street fight.
I'm gonna talk my talk, I'm gonna walk my walk.
Everybody points their finger at me and says that I'm the crazy guy and this thug.
I was never, like, picking on people or anything like that. I was more the other way around. I was a little insecure, I was broke.
I had a really hot girlfriend in high school and I'd get into fights over that. And by the time I got into high school, I was moved around into a lot of schools, so I was getting into fights in high school.
I'm the most overworked, overtrained, underpaid fighter.