Top 55 Tito Ortiz Quotes

UFC, take me off your list. Take me off your Hall of Fame.

After having my first surgery in 2003, having an ACL replacement, I never thought I’d be able to compete again.

Scott Coker’s been amazing to work with.

My true inspiration is to give everything to my kids that I never had. I had a really rough upbringing, and I want to break that chain. I’ve broken the chain, and I want to give my kids happiness every single day. When they wake up and hop on me and say; ‘Dad I love you,’ that is what means the most to me.

Anything with Tito Ortiz’s name on it will always involve a bit of controversy.

If I wanted to do a fixed fight, I’d be doing WWE.

I’ve been through every surgery that any athlete has ever been through, and I’ve prevailed through it.

Jon Jones is a great champion, but me in my prime, I was devastating. I was vicious. Nobody could stop me. Of course I could beat him in my prime.

I did what Jon ‘Bones’ Jones couldn’t do, and that was finish Bader in a minute and fifty-six seconds.

The fight game and the commentary game are two different worlds.

They eat clean, they don’t drink sodas, they don’t have fast food. My kids eat like pro athletes.

From a kid who didn’t come from much success growing up but watched Muhammad Ali and Hulk Hogan, to where I am today… I tell kids, ‘You can achieve anything you want as long as you stick with it.’

A lot of guys who I fought, they beat guys who were No. 1 contenders, and that’s why I fought them.

I understand my limits. I’m not going to go out there just to fight for money and to put on a show for people at the risk of my own health. I won’t do that.

Fighting is my livelihood, and jeopardizing my body without a full understanding of conditions doesn’t make any sense. No professional fighter will go into a risky match without a contract.

I have a great surgeon that put me together.

I’m invested in the UFC, but I’m invested in myself at the same time, showing everyone that I am one of the greatest.

I’ve seen everything during my career.

I’m a very emotional person. That’s every one of my fights; it’s all emotions.

My biggest enemy has been my surgeries.

I always knew I wanted to have a family because I didn’t have one growing up.

Once someone watches me compete, I’m part of them forever.

I do charity work for St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital and the USO. I made all the money I’m ever going to need – all my family is every going to need – so I try to give back to the community.

The whole bad-boy image was for the cage, and that’s it. It wasn’t an act because it came from a passion for fighting.

For me, boxing’s like checkers, and MMA’s like chess – there are so many ways to win the match. It’s not barbaric; it’s boxing, kickboxing, Jiu-Jitsu, wrestling, cardio and it’s all reached such an amazing level. As fans learn more about the sport, they just fall in love with it.

My number one goal was to be the best fighter ever in the Octagon. I think I can hold hands with many who can stake that claim.

I’ve been able to mature and improve my mixed martial arts game completely; I just never stop learning, and whenever I think I know enough, I just keep working and do more.

I had little problems during high school. It seemed like I was always getting into trouble in summer, going in and out of juvenile hall.

Being outspoken was important… I helped make the UFC what it is today with Chuck Liddell, Royce Gracie, and Randy Couture. Some said I was outspoken in a bad way, but I was just trying to educate the fans what being a UFC fighter is all about.

Chuck Liddell’s a puppet.

Wrestling encompasses hard work, dedication, sacrifice, and determination – there’s just nothing like it in any sport.

I’m a big juicer, and I believe in juicing most vegetables and fruit, which I do twice a day.

I went through UFC with five title defenses. Jonny ‘Bones’ Jones beat my record, so I’m trying to beat his record. That’s my goal. That’s what I want to do.

I was smart enough to save my money. I invest. The biggest thing you can invest is something they don’t have a lot of, is land. I own a lot of it.

At the end of the day, I’m a dad, and I try to give my kids everything I never had as a kid.

Man’s best friend – that’s what dogs are. I have two dogs. I love and treat them like family.

I remember from the very beginning when I walked out at UFC 40, when we had the big lights, the flames, everything. Fans want to see entertainment.

I was always a huge WWF wrestling fan, and Hulk Hogan was one of my biggest heroes.

Retiring as the champion and being the only athlete to ever do that, I think goals like that are set in the mind. I want to make that happen.

Trust has always been a hard issue in my life, and when I was with the UFC, it was hard for me to trust people because it was like I was seeing lies, up to lies, up to lies.

I’m a kid who has a lot of respect. I believe in respect.

I know who I am. I’m a former world champion.

I want to fight the top guys in the world. Guys who have names. Guys who I don’t mind trying to make a mark off of me by them trying to win, which, they’re gonna become losers.

I’m very thankful to Bellator.

Life’s too short. Too short to hate.

Tito Ortiz vs. Chuck Liddell III, the fight that all the fans wanted to see for the longest time and never got a chance to. I never got a fair shake when I was with the UFC against Chuck, any of the times I ever fought against him.

When you’re winning, your confidence is through the roof, but when you’re losing, that self-doubt is like, ‘Am I doing the right thing?’

I’ve tasted the dirt side. I’ve tasted being broke. I’ve been in the dumps, I’ve lived in motels as a kid. I want a different opportunity for my children. I never want them to see those things.

I’ve had an ACL replaced in my left knee, ACL replaced in my right knee, 50 percent of my meniscus taken out of my right knee, lower back fusion, C-6, C-7 fused in my neck, C-5, C-4 disk replacement, C-4, C-3 fused. I have 26, 27 concussions, hundreds of stitches. I’ve been through the grinder.

I love doing films, action films, anything I can get into that is produced at a high level, really use my skills.

In my mind, I know I’m one of the greatest. I know other people don’t think that, but in my mind, I know I’m one of the greatest.

Scott Coker, I’ve known him such a long time, he’s always been a straight shooter. He’s always been very, very respectful towards me. He understands the business. He understands marketing and how to push the fighters to make them superstars in a household environment.

I don’t wanna fight a street fighter.

In the UFC, at first we were like a family, but then it turned corporate. In Bellator, we’re family.

I did my job to make my name a household name.