Top 50 Forrest Griffin Quotes

If it were up to me, I’d be fighting chumps.

Nobody goes, ‘I’m a top 10 fighter. Well, maybe Top 15. I can beat a lot of guys’… Nobody ever says that. That’s the thing with having a grasp on reality. I know I’m not the best.

I have great coaches, but one thing I’ve never really had is that head coach – a Greg Jackson, Matt Hume, John Hackleman.

I like listening to Method Man before fighting.

I remember being 32 years old and feeling great, better than ever physically. Then at 33, I tore my shoulder and was out for eight months, and it was like I fell off a cliff. I was never the same.

I’ve framed houses, worked on an asphalt crew, I was a cop, a lifeguard.

It gets old, all of it. People putting a lot of hopes and dreams on you. Telling you they put money on you, and ‘you’re my kid’s idol.’

I want people to like me.

I really believe zombies are a threat to our national security.

I found being a coach in ‘The Ultimate Fighter’ series hard because I had to care about others. I don’t feel a lot of empathy with others. Having kids is going to be a scary one for me – I guess I’m going to have to learn.

I’m someone who needs goals and direction, and fighting provided that for me.

I think anyplace people can be themselves is a good thing.

People think TRT is for lazy people. No, it’s just you’re just trying to improve yourself.

The biggest thing I learned is that when Dana says retire, you should retire. Otherwise, you will blow your knee out before your next fight.

You talk to people, and they don’t understand our water. They come and turn on a tap and drink clean water, and to them, that’s amazing. Millions of people around the world have to carry water miles and miles, and that’s all they have. It’s hard for fat Americans like myself to even understand that.

No, I don’t play video games.

I hate flying so I always drive.

You have to move on with your life at some point. You don’t quit fighting, fighting quits you at some point. It’s very unfortunate, but that’s the nature of the beast. And that’s one of those things, too, that I like to tell young fighters. Have a backup plan.

In the grand scheme of things, fighting people in the cage is not that big of a deal, I know. It’s not a hero profession even though its treated as one. It’s not being a soldier or police officer or paramedic of firefighter or anything.

What’s wrong with wanting to be better at your job?

You would have to be born with a gene that doesn’t allow you to recognize sarcasm if you take anything I say seriously.

Time catches everyone. Sooner or later, it gets everybody.

It’s long been a problem. But I’m not just talking about the UFC – I mean homophobia in sports in general and athletes sometimes say really stupid things.

I will give one piece of advice that always keeps me going; get your body moving every day, no matter what. Don’t truly have an off day, just move. Move light and try to get your body moving to break a light sweat.

I’m pretty careful not to make friends with other guys who fight at 205.

I had some pretty substantial injuries.

You can’t cuss on TV. It does hurt your brand if you do stuff like that. That’s not what blue chip sponsors are looking for.

I don’t really give a damn about too much other than myself.

I say whatever’s on my mind, I don’t really care.

In the beginning, fighting was fun – I wasn’t concerned with the outcome. At some point, I started training out of fear and anger. I wasn’t really happy.

I’ve always kind of been the guy next door who just happens to fight for a living. I tried to figure out what was special and marketable about me early on in my career and I realized that there’s absolutely nothing special about me, so I wanted that.

I am not a super-talented guy, I’m just a dude who will fight you tooth and nail.

For like a year, even after I retired, my ear would just bleed. There was just some scar tissue on it that tore open so many times that it just started bleeding all the time. It’s rough on the wife, she has to keep washing the sheets again and again.

It’s nice to get to do other things and not worry about fighting.

It’s very unmanly to change yourself for others. Be comfortable with oneself. There have been feminist movements but there’s never been a male one.

My fitness philosophy is very different from the UFC fighter fitness philosophy. Mine is to work out in a way that you will be able to sustain for the next 20 years.

When I know that I trained real hard and I had a good training camp, that’s when I’m very confident. But sometimes I don’t train hard and I don’t feel that confident.

I am a Georgia guy, and I have Brett Favre’s card when he played with the Atlanta Falcons. That’s my retirement plan.

Whatever Brett Favre does, it’s a sign of the apocalypse.

I am not the super-submission guy, I am not the one-punch KO guy, so I am not the most feared guy in the world. But I will not quit, I will not break and I will fight you like a dog for every second of every round.

During a fight with Anderson Silva, I slipped on an imaginary banana peel.

There are two things I want to be able to know when I walk into a fight, or with anything in life. And I’m not Superman, I’m not even that great at fighting. Those two things are: I have done everything in my power to prepare for this and I will not quit, no matter what.

I’m never going to struggle but I definitely want to make more money, we all do.

Unfortunately, I found out when I was trying to like square up with people and face off with people and, like, try to intimidate them and I’m pretty non-threatening.

I’m not a naturally giving person.

It was weird, I saw the Brian Stann vs. Wanderlei fight, I thought, if I don’t have another of those in me, there’s no point in continuing. I never really cared about winning or losing, then don’t put the product out there at all if it’s going to be subpar.

If you look at UFC champions: BJ Penn – terrifying! GSP – terrifying! Anderson Silva – terrifying! But I’m not terrifying.

I just love fighting. I know I’m not the best, but I’m still pretty good, there’s a lot of people I can still beat. What do you do. What else am I supposed to do? I have no other skills. I enjoy doing this. There’s nothing I’d really rather do, you know?

It was so fun, 2006, 2007, 2008. I went into the gym and I felt like I was winning in the gym, which is important for an athlete.

Gay, straight, whatever – none of that actually matters when you’re fighting someone. Not what you have in your bank account, what you drive, what sex you are, none of it. I think that’s the message the UFC has been trying to push.