“I'm trying to stay focused on what I'm doing. I don't want a whole lot...” — Nate Diaz Quote

I'm trying to stay focused on what I'm doing. I don't want a whole lot of things going on - people to call back, or text messages or whatever. I chill out, relax a little bit, and then I don't have those issues.

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.

You know when I fight, I'm going to sell out the show. Everyone wants to see someone get knocked out or tapped out.

Me calling out Roy Jones is disrespectful.

Every fight, I'm fighting blind opponents. I don't know who it's going to be, who I'm fighting, if I'm really fighting them.

And people are intrigued if I really am as grumpy in real life. People feel a bit let down if I'm laughing or smiling.

Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain.

In my position, I'm always going to get a bit of flak. I take it with a grain of salt.

I like pubs too, but it's hard for me to go and get proper bladdered in the way I used to. I don't want to moan about being recognised but I do get a bit of grief sometimes.

Of course I'm proud of what I've done, but I'm interested in what's next. I want to be relevant now, in 2012. I've done my bit for the past. I've only ever been about what's next, really, and I'll be that way until I keel over.