Top 40 Jon Jones Quotes

I got in the limelight at a young age. At age 19, people were already comparing me to Anderson Silva.

When you say, ‘When you’re wrong, you’re wrong,’ I would 100 percent agree. I’ve always handled my punishments head on.

I’ve come to expect more out of myself – as a citizen, as a man, as an athlete – to reach a better place, a place I’ve never been.

The first time I crawled into the octagon, I just felt like an animal, you know? Like a creature, like I wasn’t quite human.

I notice that I’m full of myself, and I am arrogant to some degree, but it’s honestly only when it comes to talking about MMA.

If you do something bad, it doesn’t mean you’re a bad person. It means you had bad judgment.

I genuinely wanted to be an inspiration to other people and inspire people and be a role model.

My friends and family all know me, and that’s the important thing.

It’s a cold world out there, and this world will pass you by if you give another man anything over yourself.

Fighting was something inside of me that I didn’t realize was there.

Growing up, I was poor. In college, I was poor. I never had anything.

A lot of coaches in MMA focus on MMA wrestling. My coach, his high school team is ranked 10th in the nation. Izzy Martinez is very connected to the wrestling community.

I grew up originally in Rochester. It was where I was born and a very tough neighbourhood with a lot of violence. I consider myself lucky. When I was aged 11, in 1998, Dad moved us to a suburban area from what was a ghetto area. It gave me a chance of survival.

My parents always kept us in the house. We weren’t allowed to spend the night at other people’s houses. We were sheltered kids.

Fitness really changed my life.

I love Twitter in particular because it allows me to grow and see how people feel about the decisions I make. My followers, they’re always pretty honest with me. I love the honesty I get. I also find motivation in it.

College, for me, was more about wrestling than actually going to classes.

I’m here to fight; I’m not here to protect whether you think I’m a good person or not. I’ve given up on that.

I want to take this time to thank Daniel Cormier for being my biggest rival and motivator. He has absolutely no reason to hang his head. He has been a model champion, a model husband, a model father, a teammate, a leader, and I aspire to be a lot more like that man, because he’s an amazing human being.

I think once you start to think that you’re the man, and you know it all, and your style is unbeatable and stuff like that, that’s when you get caught and clipped and get humbled really fast.

There’s never been a southpaw fighter to make it five rounds with me. These are championship fights, and most of them can’t even make it out of the normal rounds. Fought Chael Sonnen, TKOed him in round one. Fought Vitor Belfort. He made it to round four when I ended up submitting him.

In a fight, you got to know that there’s a strong chance you’re going to get hurt. But at the same time, you know, most of the injuries you sustain in fighting are not career-ending injuries.

Even though I have bad qualities in my personal life, as an athlete, I can turn it on.

Conor McGregor has been a tremendous inspiration to me.

We’re all going to make mistakes; they’re inevitable. It’s what you do after these mistakes that matters.

A champion without his belt is like a knight without his sword. I’ve got to have it.

Fighting is not what I do – it’s who I am. It’s what I was meant to do, what I was meant to be. I knew that right after my first MMA practice.

I have tons of pictures of myself as a kid with my medals, and they were never gold medals.

One day when I was bored, I just went down to a powerlifting gym, Via Strength Systems in Albuquerque. I knew I needed to expend my energy somehow. I started working out with them four days a week. I became obsessed with lifting and being fit.

It was really tough being in jail. It doesn’t get much lower. You’re in a filthy room. The food is terrible, and you’re surrounded by people who have done all types of crazy crimes. You have nothing that belongs to you, not even your own underwear. It’s just terrible.

I would study the best, the most flashy, the guys that had that flair, the guys that had that wow. I’d study those fighters, and I made up my mind that I’d be all of those at once.

It’s not my business what other people think of me.

In my mind, I’ve never lost a fight.

I don’t enjoy hitting people; I enjoy outsmarting them.

The moment I let fear slip in is the moment that the fights are gonna start getting closer and closer.

I’m not scared of anything.

I will get out there and train harder than anyone, five times a day sometimes. You have to be a special person to do that – like, special forces, military maybe.

I wouldn’t argue that Anderson Silva is the best pound-for-pound fighter in MMA.

I put pressure on myself and feel pressure from my fans to not only win but to look great doing it.

I’ll fight anywhere, man.