Edwards - http://www.ufc.com/news/Yves-Edwards-Still-in-Love-with-the-Game
- I didn’t get hit with weed (like Medeiros) - I got hit with an uppercut
- Edwards is the most senior member of the lightweight ranks and one of the oldest active competitors on the UFC roster
- he’s managed to stay relatively healthy over the course of his career, fighting at least three times in all but two years between 1998 and 2013, something he credits to good genes and never getting caught up in the party lifestyle that traps many professional athletes.
- Having more and more success with guys that are beastly like Poirier and Brooks and Nik Lentz, and learning things from them and being able to help them out
- I’m still enjoying it. When I get to train with guys like that and they can push me and help me learn new things, it’s like I haven’t hit my ceiling yet and I want to know where the ceiling is.
- I’ve got these guys out there - young guys - and they’re pushing me, and it feels good. While I’m out there, I don’t feel like I’m 37.
- I wish Mike Brown would get back on the mat instead of coaching. He doesn’t have anything lined up right now, so he’s just in a coaching role, and it’s like, `Man, I wish Mike would get back on the mat’ because I don’t like being the oldest guy on the mat.
- “I look around and there is no one else that is older than me. I wish Din Thomas would come down
- I don’t want it to be over, man
- I know it will be eventually, but when it’s time to cross that bridge, I will and I’m prepared for that, but I’m just not prepared for that to be this month or this year.
- I still feel competitive, physically, I’m no different than I was five years ago or even eight or nine years ago.
- If my game is elevating and I’m still competitive, there is no point in hanging it up, I’m still in love with the game.