Top 66 Cody Garbrandt Quotes

Can’t fight destiny. It’s my destiny to be a world champion.

Wrestling is the hardest sport in the world, hands down.

There’s so many dudes that I’d like to fight at the top.

I’ve some investments, I’ve got good people in my life managing my money.

I have the heaviest hands in my division.

Win or lose, when I outclassed Dominick Cruz, I gave him my respect.

I’m in this sport to challenge myself.

I was 25 years old, a world champion.

The quickest time to rehydrate is right after you’re done training, so I’m always carrying these gallons of water to drink, drink, drink so my body can recover faster. And that’s a huge part of being able to take damage, by the way. If you’re hydrated, your brain is lubricated, you can take bigger shots.

I really enjoy eating healthy. My body feels better, I perform better. So even outside of a camp, I’m just always keeping ready and taking care of my body.

Some people look at a loss and it’s devastating, it’s the end of the world, they go in a downward spiral and they let dirt get piled on them. You just got to brush yourself off. You can’t let the dirt bury you.

I’m chasing greatness.

I have respect for Bryan Caraway.

I’m obsessed with this sport. I’m obsessed with getting better. I’m obsessed with winning. Losing’s part of it. It challenges you to grow.

As long as you are an active fighter, no, we’re not cool.

T.J.’s not a good person. He’s not a good person. He’s kind of a generic version of Dominick Cruz.

I want to fight. I love to fight.

You can put 10 Dominick Cruz’s in front of me, I’ll knock them all out. 10 out of 10.

I have been a world champion, I have climbed that mountain.

Your body is made up of something like 60 percent water. So if you’re constantly draining yourself and dehydrating yourself in your training sessions, you constantly have to be on top of drinking enough water to rehydrate.

I truly believe I’m the best in the world.

Before I got in the UFC, I wrote down on a piece of paper a goal that I was going to make it to the UFC in 2015 and then I’ll be the world champion before 2017 so I’m right on track. I pull out that piece of paper all the time and look at it. It’s motivation.

Obviously I’m a professional at all times. But we’re in the fight game. Crazy stuff can happen.

I was fighting the best, am the best, will be the best.

You can give me top boxers, Adrien Broner, Mikey Garcia. I would love to get in the ring with them.

I don’t think I was ever in a mindset where I don’t want to fight cause I feel like every time that I tried to draw away from fighting, I was always pulled back in.

I have the utmost respect for Thomas Almeida.

I’m a firm believer in karma, so getting stabbed was an eye opener.

I like free money.

UFC 203, Stipe Miocic is defending his belt in Cleveland, Ohio, that’s where I spent a lot of my amateur career and boxing, it’s an hour and 20 minutes from my hometown. I would like to dance with someone there in the Quicken Loans Arena.

Covid did affect me for quite some time but my body healed. I repaired it and rebuild it.

In this sport, I believe it’s about not being comfortable.

I’ve always been brought up on loyalty.

I really like people who stick with their fellow countrymen.

I go out there and live or die by the sword and I’m willing to put the work in that needs to be to obtain the goal that I set out to do.

Dominick Cruz can’t knock anybody out. He’s got grapes for hands.

The higher the opponent for me, the more that I shine.

Dominick Cruz, that would be a fun rematch.

It’s something I’ve visualized since I was teenager, fighting Cruz, but he’s never really faced a sound physical and emotional fighter like myself.

I was the smallest out of everyone I hung out with.

That’s what I’m here to prove, that I am the best.

There are plenty of strikers that have a good jab.

You can never be too high off the winning, or too low off a loss.

I’m too quick. I’m in and out.

I think Jose Aldo is tough, I respect him, but I want to test his chin.

Honestly, in this sport everyone is so good, everyone is so talented. You fight with four-ounce gloves on – in a perfect world, you’d be undefeated and walk away. That’s a small percentage. That’s Floyd Mayweather.

Aldo’s game. You don’t get those accolades that he’s achieved, the accomplishments that he’s achieved without being one of the best.

I want to have longevity with the UFC. It’s a dream come true to be with the UFC, so I just want to have longevity with them.

I’ll be shadow-boxing and look over and see Kai shadow-boxing around the house. Me and my wife trip out all the time because he listens to us and absorbs everything we do and say… I know I have to be a good example for him. I want him to be proud to say, ‘That’s my father.’

I don’t put things to the side.

My money thing, I never wanted to have my motivation to be money, that’s not why I got into this sport, I got into it to be a world champion.

Under two years in the UFC, I became a world champion. That’s a fast track.

I’ve always felt in my career – fighting, wrestling, boxing – that the bigger the fight is for me, the more the pressure is on, the more that I shine. The more that the best comes out in me.

My goal is to be the champion of the world, and that’s what I’ll set myself up to do.

I know I hit like a Mack Truck.

There’s nothing better to challenge yourself against than a heavy-handed striker like John Lineker. But, I mean, he’s a brawler. That’s it. He’s a brawler. He gets sucked into those brawls.

We never quit. My mom instilled that attitude in us, that never quit, never surrender.

I feel like I’m one of the best boxers in the UFC.

I probably would never fight Urijah for the belt to be honest. It’s not going to be a money thing for me that would give me that fight. I’ve got a lot of respect for him, I really do. A really humble dude, he’s been nothing but honest and real to me ever since the first day I met him.

I got a shirt that says ‘Hanging with the boys,’ I call everybody ‘boy.’

I’m emotional but I fight with passion.

Honestly, I feel I am very skilled, I work hard.

Without fighting, I don’t think I would be as happy in this life.

I feel the bigger the stage, the pressure starts to get to others and they crumble. I feel like this is where I shine the brightest and perform the best.

I’m not going to die with dreams, I’m going to die with memories.

I feel like everyone’s equal, I never thought I was better than anybody.