“He just sounds so rtarded. All he wants to do is get an emotional reaction out of people... Y'all are going to fight on Saturday, let's see if you're talking all that sht then. Because you wasn't talking that sh*t when y'all trained. You were screaming across the room to Eric [Nicksick] saying how he's a bad coach for putting you with him. We don't want to talk about that, do we?”

– via Submission Radio, exposing what he claims is the true story of the sparring sessions between Sean Strickland and Khamzat Chimaev.

“I’d rather get knocked out [or] something. I’m not going to quit on the stool. I can’t quit on my team like that. We work so hard. I think my dad would disown me, too, if I did that, to be honest. He’s different. I don’t know, I can’t do that. I don’t want my kids to see that. We follow through no matter what. I signed up to go in there. I signed up to be in that position, to do what I do, to put on a show for the fans, to give a good name to the promotion, to all the guys that gave me the opportunity.”

– on Reinier de Ridder "quitting on the stool" at UFC Vancouver