Urijah Faber

I was a guy that exhausted all opportunities.

So if I got a short-notice fight for a title, whether I was a little injured or I was prepared fully or whatnot, I'm like, this may be the last one.

I always had that mentality of you just take your opportunities, you take your opportunities.

I could have been more prepared for a couple fights.

There's two fights that were title fights that I definitely wasn't at...

like, the prime, like, preparation and prime physical ability, but still took it because you don't know.

Short-notice fights.

Yeah, short-notice fights.

I filled in for Dominic Cruz, uh, you know, when he got injured, I think twice, actually.

Yeah.

And had short-notice fights, and, um, yeah, so, but I'm glad I did, because it's all part of the story, and I was rolling the dice.

Yeah, yeah.

One land.

Yeah, I always believed I was going to win.

And so I don't have any regrets when it comes to the fight side.

You know, I had an experience in college as a wrestler at UC Davis where I had a season where I won or I lost maybe like 10 or 11 matches by one point or overtime.

And I remember just how it felt like.

whether it was the same effort, the same preparation, I go out there and compete, and the one determining factor of how I felt was whether they said I won or not, and it's point-based and everything else.

But the next year, I had won about the same amount of matches in one point or overtime.

and i remember both scenarios i was training my butt off i was giving my my best effort i did everything in my power to win but it would affect me losing just it would bring me down for the week and so that second year and looking back at it i was just like you know what i'm only going to worry about the things that i can control i'm only going to let the things that i can control affect me