Yair Rodriguez

I've been winning and losing all my life.

— Yair Rodriguez

There is some things that you'll never heal.

— Yair Rodriguez

I'm looking to fight the best guys in the world.

— Yair Rodriguez

I want to fight the best B.J Penn.

— Yair Rodriguez

Of course, I want to fight for the title.

— Yair Rodriguez

I speak Spanish and English.

— Yair Rodriguez

They pay me to fight once I'm up in the cage.

— Yair Rodriguez

I actually like that - I like taking my time off.

— Yair Rodriguez

I know I'm still a rising star for the sport or whatever, but I know I have done a lot already.

— Yair Rodriguez

It's better to take it slowly. You learn what you're doing. The mistakes you make, you take it better.

— Yair Rodriguez

You always have to give the benefit of the doubt to your opponent, how he's feeling.

— Yair Rodriguez

Max Holloway is a huge name out there and I'm really happy to have the opportunity to fight him.

— Yair Rodriguez

I try to save myself from as much impact as I can possibly have to my head.

— Yair Rodriguez

In an ideal scenario, I would like to face the champion, right? That's the fight everybody wants.

— Yair Rodriguez

Every time I step into that cage, I show what I'm capable of.

— Yair Rodriguez

I like to fight short guys because my range helps me out a lot.

— Yair Rodriguez

I'm OK with whatever, people are always going to talk and think or say or do things, but my job is to…

— Yair Rodriguez

B.J. Penn is a two-time former champion, two different weight classes. Few people can achieve that in their careers.

— Yair Rodriguez

Jeremy Stephens is a fight I didn't want to take because he was behind me on the rankings. Not because of his…

— Yair Rodriguez

Many things that I do during my fights I don't really do here in my trainings because I can hurt my partners…

— Yair Rodriguez

How often have you seen a fighter talking about the next fight and he didn't win the fight he was in? You…

— Yair Rodriguez

Of course, Frankie Edgar's experience was a factor in that fight, but I have to be ready. If I'm fighting at the…

— Yair Rodriguez

I think Josh Emmett is right there. I have said before that he could fight for the title, I could fight for…

— Yair Rodriguez

You gotta understand this sport is so dangerous and things can happen. You gotta accept that before you go in there.

— Yair Rodriguez

If I become a champion, if I become the first Mexican UFC champion, I can become bigger because I will be the…

— Yair Rodriguez

I met BJ once down in Albuquerque, it was before my fight with Andre Fili. I met him there, we did a…

— Yair Rodriguez

People know me as a professional fighter and when you are in the UFC, you are very visible. But I'm not just…

— Yair Rodriguez

I work hard every day - like, really, really hard.

— Yair Rodriguez

I'm the guy who, I never say much, I just act.

— Yair Rodriguez

I've been in contact sports since I was 5 years old.

— Yair Rodriguez

This is just sport for me, nothing more than that.

— Yair Rodriguez

People live in the past too much. They live the past.

— Yair Rodriguez

Everybody has their own battles to deal with.

— Yair Rodriguez

I never overestimate my opponents.

— Yair Rodriguez

Max Holloway is one of the greatest in history.

— Yair Rodriguez

I respect everyone out there.

— Yair Rodriguez

If you live in the present, you are happy.

— Yair Rodriguez

Each fight I try to be different.

— Yair Rodriguez

I want to be the next Muhammad Ali.

— Yair Rodriguez

If you have a problem with me, then we'll have a problem. But if not, I don't have problems.

— Yair Rodriguez