Barnett: ‘I don’t owe anyone anything’
“Everybody keeps telling me congratulations, and I just go, ‘For what?’” Barnett told MMAjunkie.com about his recent signing by Strikeforce….
“Everybody keeps telling me congratulations, and I just go, ‘For what?'” Barnett told MMAjunkie.com about his recent signing by Strikeforce. “It’s just a promise. Until I start beating people, then you can tell me thanks.”
“When the opportunities arise, I’ve got to be ready to go out there and fight everybody as if it’s the only fight I’m ever going to have and prove who I am.”
“I don’t feel a need to cater to people for any reason whatsoever. I treat those that are my fans respectfully and try to to what I can for them as an athlete. But I don’t do things for other people. I do them for myself. To do them for any other reason is insincere and a counterproductive way of going about things.
“I don’t owe anyone anything, and they don’t owe anything to me. Those that are my fans, I’ll do what I can for them. But at the end of the day, my job is to go out there and f— people up. That’s my goal. There are going to be people who dig that. There are going to be people that hate it, and that just makes me even happier.
“I don’t really think about haters and encouragement. I’m a guy that likes conflict and causing grief. So if I feel like I’m making somebody’s life miserable sometimes, for what I feel is arbitrary and ridiculous reasons, then I kind of feel a need to make it even worse for them. I can’t help it. It’s how I am. Basically, I like the idea that I could be out there killing someone’s hero.
