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Most really good wrestlers, especially heavyweights, once they're finished with their collegiate careers they don't want to continue the grind.Collection: Curtis
That's the beauty of my game plan: it's pretty universal, regardless of my opponent's style.Collection: Curtis
The longer I wait for a title shot, the more my skills grow.Collection: Curtis
I've been the bad guy before, I wrestled in high school and college and when you go to other people's schools they root against you, that's how it is. It doesn't bother me.Collection: Curtis
I don't care if they boo me, I don't care if they hate me, I don't care if they love me... I just want the W.Collection: Curtis
Mark Hunt is a legend, he's a pioneer of combat sports.Collection: Curtis
I'm not going to force the takedown and make myself look predictable.Collection: Curtis
I have to strike before I wrestle. I have to be an MMA fighter, not a wrestler.Collection: Curtis
It's not like basketball, football or rugby, where they judge you on potential. In this sport it's about 'what have you done lately' - that's how you get rewarded.Collection: Curtis
I've always respected Mark Hunt, I don't have the style, obviously, but you can't help respect a guy who's been doing it for as long as he has at the level he has. I know he doesn't have the best record, but everyone knows he only fights the best of the best.Collection: Curtis
I had a lot of holes in my game and I've patched up a lot of those holes, so I'm just a totally different fighter.Collection: Curtis
I don't fight angry. I don't have any malicious intent. I just want to win.Collection: Curtis
Actually having training partners helps. Actually having coaches helps.Collection: Curtis
I learned early on that when you compete, sometimes emotions are good, but I never used emotion when I wrestled and I don't use emotion when I fight.Collection: Curtis
I'm always going to be the better wrestler and that's always going to be my advantage and it's always going to be the best path to victory for me, so I'm going to be looking to use my wrestling.Collection: Curtis
It doesn't hurt having an extra long camp, can't hurt.Collection: Curtis
I can strike if I have to, but I'm not going to play that game, this is heavyweight. If I was a bantamweight or a lightweight or a welterweight, I'd play that game, because you can eat five, six heavy punches and the risk isn't the same.Collection: Curtis
At heavyweight? It can be a heavy jab and that could be the fight, it could be lights out.Collection: Curtis
One day I'd like to be in the UFC Hall of Fame, that's the goal.Collection: Curtis
Anything worth having is going to be hard.Collection: Curtis
I never understood, especially in boxing, people avoid tough fights. Because eventually if you want to be the best, all your opponents are going to be tough.Collection: Curtis
I don't think I've ever turned down a fight. I get an opponent, I'm like OK. With the UFC, turning down fights isn't a good idea. That starts to put you in a bad light.Collection: Curtis
People who think the venue actually has a factor on the outcome of the fight, I don't know what to tell you besides I think you're wrong. I don't think it matters at all. It's who's going to be able to implement their game plan first and most effectively, and that doesn't have anything to do with the venue to me.Collection: Curtis
MMA is like that. You could win four fights in a row, lose a fight, everyone says you suck. You could lose three in a row, win one, and you're the greatest in the world.Collection: Curtis
I don't want to fight guys just to fight guys. I'm trying to get to the belt so whoever that is, whatever route I have to take to get there the fastest, is the route I want.Collection: Curtis
Title shot, that's the ultimate goal.Collection: Curtis
There's a lot of guys who don't have one-punch knockout power that have the belt. Khabib, he had the belt. Izzy, does he have one-punch knockout power? There's a lot of guys that don't have one-punch knockout power.Collection: Curtis
There are guys that fight for 10 or 15 years and they don't ever learn how to defend a guillotine or even an arm triangle.Collection: Curtis
I have all the things you need to match up with a talent like Jon Jones.Collection: Curtis
I believe once I take anyone down, the odds are in my favor.Collection: Curtis
Stipe's a smart fighter. He knows how to blend the wrestling with the striking.Collection: Curtis
It's always good to learn lessons, especially when you win and learn a lesson.Collection: Curtis
Skill is good but if I get on top of you, I'm just heavy.Collection: Curtis
When I get on top of somebody, I don't have to do all the other little checks and balances guys in other weight classes do. I have gravity. I can pin you with just my knee.Collection: Curtis
Worst case, I've always iterated, if I have to clean out the division, I will. I will do that. I have a family at home that I provide for so the more active I am, the better for them.Collection: Curtis
I do agree that Stipe would beat Jon but that would be a great fight. Jon would definitely make Stipe earn it to get past that long reach and also get past the creative and funky ways he keeps people away from him, the distance. It's interesting.Collection: Curtis
The more aggressive you are, the easier is it is for me to get to your hips. Even if you're more counter oriented like Junior dos Santos was, as long as I've got you on your back heel, I'm winning the fight and eventually either the takedown or the strikes will open up.Collection: Curtis
The majority of the guys in the division, I get them on the ground and they're not a problem no more.Collection: Curtis
That's one thing I love about the NFL If you can't play, they're not going to pay you. They're going to release you. They love doing that.Collection: Curtis
You should have one more than combo after eight years in MMA.Collection: Curtis