There is nobody out there less than 5-foot-6 who scares me.
I know that I can become the best fighter in the world and be in the greatest-of-all-time conversation if I just stay dialed in to what I'm doing.
I'm the biggest fight - obviously. It doesn't take a genius to figure that out; anybody I fight is going to be the biggest fight in the division.
The UFC rankings have always been something not super important to me.
I lose in sparring, I lose in grappling. I'm not worried about losing.
I've learned a lot, through being in the UFC since I was 22, mostly to not care what people think.
I feel like I'm in a position where if you want me to fight in New York, and I don't want to fight in New York, I'm not gonna fight in New York.
I don't really care if it's a top 10 guy, a top 15 guy, a bum on the street. I'm gonna get paid the same. Whoever I beat up, I'm getting paid the same. Don't care.
That's a fight that I think would be a massive fight: 'The Suga Show' vs. Jose Aldo. I think that would be a crazy fight. That would probably be the one fight where I'd be standing across the cage like 'what... that's crazy.'
Everyone's definition of an open relationship is different.
I don't like how relationships are nowadays, it's like 'I own you, you own them.' I don't want to be in that kind of relationship.
I had 14 amateur fights, and I went out there and knocked a lot of them out. Trainingwise, we would pretty much just spar.
I've always moved different than a lot of people move.
I'm not too worried about it, ideally I get three fights in a year. That's kind of where my head's at. I don't know if it's more money or if it's - ah, I think it's competition, I love competing.
For some reason people just don't - Aljo, he's not a draw.
I'm the biggest draw in the bantamweight division, I'm one of the biggest draws in the UFC.
I could submit Khabib and people would be like, 'Yeah, but.' Something. They'd say something. So I pay no attention to what the negative fans say. It doesn't matter to me.
Anybody my weight class, I could see me standing across from them and knocking them out.
That's how I see any fight that I'm ever going to be in going, just me putting my hands on their chin enough times, and they'll fall.
To be honest, I feel like I'm one of the biggest stars in the UFC, and if you see what I make, it doesn't show that.
Kris Moutinho was a tough guy. Eddie Wineland was a tough guy. Thomas Almeida was a tough guy.
The UFC would be 100 percent fine without me. If they want another huge, giant star, I could fill that role for sure, but they don't need me.
I get a little crap for that like, 'You've never been to Ireland,' and I haven't and I would love to go, but my last name is O'Malley and I am Irish and how could you not love the Irish fans?
Petr, he's just so good at adapting and winning those later rounds.
If I think I'm going to go out there and knock you out, everyone knows I'm going to say that. It's not just talk.
I told everyone I was going to go out there and get a viral knockout on Eddie Wineland and I did. I told everyone I was going to go out there and knockout Jose Quinonez and I did.
From a fighter's mind, I want to obviously fight the best guys in the world. I want to be champ.
I've been dropped by calf kicks in sparring.
I've been doing a lot of kinda fashion pictures and talking to some fashion, so I'd like to dip my shoes in the fashion industry.
I think eventually I want to get out there and be on the cover of GQ Magazine, just kinda get my own style out there, something different, something not like all these other guys.
I think a healthy me is very dangerous, and I think I could beat anyone in the division.
Once you start fighting the best guys in the world, you're going to fight nothing but the best guys in the world.
You can only fight for so long.
I got called out by nine guys when I was out for two years. Some of them are going to help my career; fighting someone like Brian Kelleher is not going to do much.
I'm definitely looking for smart fights - people that are going to up me.
I train jiu-jitsu more than I do anything.
The only thing I need to do is keep winning fights and everything around me goes up from there.
I have a fire in me.
A lot of people have been like, 'Why do you take that many supplements?' It's like, go out there and train twice a day as hard as I do. Your body breaks down.
Even with the performances I put on people still underestimate me.
Even as a kid, I never really wanted to fight people unless it was in front of an audience.
I think of it more as a performance. I always grew up playing sports, so I thought of it just as another sport. Fighting was performing in front of people.
I like to think of myself as a very, very high-level striker.
I always want to see the biggest fights. Jake Paul vs. Nate Diaz is the biggest fight.
I just don't think anyone takes Henry Cejudo serious.
You can only train so hard in sparring and on the treadmill and stuff.
I want to be able to look back on my career and have a 20 minute long, nonstop highlight reel.
You can't pick beef with someone below your weight class.