“We’re not going to mention this fu*ker’s name, but he did get his a*s beat by the Muslim brotherhood, who stole it from me because I was literally on my way to whoop this motherfu*ker's a*s. He sent me a couple messages, and I was like, ‘Alright, cool, keep sending me these messages, brother, we’re going to have to see each other”

– via his podcast Death Row MMA, revealing he was planning to confront Dillon Danis before Khabib's teammates intervened.

“I start walking over to my seat from the VIP room, and I run into ‘Chanco’ [Magomed Zaynukov], and I’m like ‘What’s up, man?’ because police are all over him. I go ‘What happened, brother?’ and I see his hands are bloody, so I’m like ‘Nah, look at your hands, what happened to your hands?’ He goes ‘Oh no, all good bro, little problem, I took care of it.’ I said ‘Okay, alright, alright”

– via his podcast Death Row MMA, revealing he was planning to confront Dillon Danis before Khabib's teammates intervened.

“I want to see him in person, shake his hand, share a meal. Watching him wrestle with one lung... I've got two healthy ones, what am I doing with my life”

– revealing that Ben Askren's story has inspired him greatly

“I don’t see Conor getting in and doing anything. He’s having a good time doing cocaine, and it’s not that fun to go to the gym and put in the work—to get your a** kicked day in and day out, to run those miles, swim those laps, and have your coaches telling you what time to wake up. He doesn’t want that lifestyle; he’d rather fight at bars.”