Quotes by Forrest Griffin - Page 2

You would have to be born with a gene that doesn't allow you to recognize sarcasm if you take anything I say seriously.
Forrest Griffin / Mixed Martial Artist
Sarcasm
Gene
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Mental toughness must be developed before you start fighting because you don't want to be that guy who quits in the ring.
Forrest Griffin / Mixed Martial Artist
Fighting
Guy
Mma
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I have great coaches, but one thing I've never really had is that head coach - a Greg Jackson, Matt Hume, John Hackleman.
Forrest Griffin / Mixed Martial Artist
Coaches
Head Coach
Jackson
Matt
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If you look at UFC champions: BJ Penn - terrifying! GSP - terrifying! Anderson Silva - terrifying! But I'm not terrifying.
Forrest Griffin / Mixed Martial Artist
Ufc
Anderson
Champions
Penn
Terrifying
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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.
Forrest Griffin / Mixed Martial Artist
Sponsors
Chip
Cuss
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Some guys are real noble guys, like Rich Franklin or Randy Couture. These guys are just really good people who happen to fight.
Forrest Griffin / Mixed Martial Artist
Couture
Noble
Randy
Good Fight People
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Here's the deal: the extraordinary becomes ordinary really quickly. One minute, everything is new and amazing, the next it's expected.
Forrest Griffin / Mixed Martial Artist
One Minute
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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.'
Forrest Griffin / Mixed Martial Artist
Hopes
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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.
Forrest Griffin / Mixed Martial Artist
Blow
Fight Your Will
Biggest Thing
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Anytime you think about ring rust and travel and camps back-to-back, it helps not having any bad injuries and being able to train consistently.
Forrest Griffin / Mixed Martial Artist
Travel
Camps
Consistently
Rust
Anytime
Ring
Helps
Injuries
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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.
Forrest Griffin / Mixed Martial Artist
Oneself
Movements
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Fear is a good thing because it keeps you alive, but if it becomes so great that it hinders you from doing what you want, you need to confront it head-on
Forrest Griffin / Mixed Martial Artist
Doing What You Want
Mma
Needs
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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.
Forrest Griffin / Mixed Martial Artist
Anger
In The Beginning
Outcome
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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.
Forrest Griffin / Mixed Martial Artist
Ufc
Athletes
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I like to make people quit. Whether it's because I'm striking them or submitting them, I just want to make them quit. In the war of wills, that's the win.
Forrest Griffin / Mixed Martial Artist
Quit
Wills
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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.
Forrest Griffin / Mixed Martial Artist
Fitness
Ufc
Sustain
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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.
Forrest Griffin / Mixed Martial Artist
Intimidate
Square
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I try to break a sweat every day doing something. Try to do hot pilates once a week. I'm not kidding. I actually hurt myself doing hot pilates, so I got that going for me.
Forrest Griffin / Mixed Martial Artist
Pilates
Sweat
Myself Me Day
Once A Week
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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.
Forrest Griffin / Mixed Martial Artist
Grasp
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Any big task if you look at the grand picture... it seems to big to accomplish, so just watch the footstep in front of you... And that's what I do; try and win little battles every day.
Forrest Griffin / Mixed Martial Artist
Battle
Mma
Winning
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The only thing that gives my mom pleasure in life is buying stuff off QVC, and I'm gonna pay those bills. I paid my mom's house off. My wife's family needs help? I'm gonna take care of that.
Forrest Griffin / Mixed Martial Artist
Bills
Buying
Life Family Mom
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I'm a nice guy. I'm trying to be positive. I've got my own things, I'm kinda crazy but I'm not trying to hurt anybody. I'm trying to be good and I'm doing the best I can. Just like everybody else.
Forrest Griffin / Mixed Martial Artist
Nice Guy
Positive Best Good
Everybody Else
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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.
Forrest Griffin / Mixed Martial Artist
Cliff
Shoulder
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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.
Forrest Griffin / Mixed Martial Artist
Every Second
Fight World I Am
Feared
Round
Quit
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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.
Forrest Griffin / Mixed Martial Artist
Sweat
Light Me Day
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Look what happened when I fought Anderson Silva. It can't possibly get worse than that. I've already seen the bottom and it wasn't that bad. I made it through. I survived. It's fighting. It's not the end of the world.
Forrest Griffin / Mixed Martial Artist
End Of The World
Anderson
Fought
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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.
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Ufc
Account
Bank
Bank Account
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We grew up in an era where there was a lot of fear of HIV. Everybody worried about it and everybody took precautions, and everybody knew that it was a thing that was out there. As it slowed down, it left the spotlight, people forgot.
Forrest Griffin / Mixed Martial Artist
Hiv
Spotlight
Forgot
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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.
Forrest Griffin / Mixed Martial Artist
Firefighter
Police Officer
Soldier
Cage
Grand
Scheme
Officer
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I grew up in a different era. People were definitely afraid of HIV back then, but education also helped change the way we thought about the disease. That education helped my generation make smarter choices about the way we protected ourselves.
Forrest Griffin / Mixed Martial Artist
Hiv
My Generation
Protected
Smarter
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The best car I ever had was a Mazda 626. I paid $72 for it. The guy told me if I towed it off his property I could do whatever I wanted to it. So I paid to have it towed to my house and me and my step-dad fixed it up and drove it until I totalled it.
Forrest Griffin / Mixed Martial Artist
Fixed
Best Car Me
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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.
Forrest Griffin / Mixed Martial Artist
Absolutely Nothing
Always Fight Me
Next Door
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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.
Forrest Griffin / Mixed Martial Artist
Retired
Rough
Scar
Sheets
Washing
Bleed
Ear
Tissue
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I feel bad for guys in other sports that never work a job. Think about it, most MMA fighters have had to do something for money whereas a guy who was an athlete in college sport then went straight to the pros, he's never had a skill outside of sport.
Forrest Griffin / Mixed Martial Artist
Mma
Fighters
Pros
Skill
Whereas
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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?
Forrest Griffin / Mixed Martial Artist
Do You Know
Love Best Good
Pretty Good
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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.
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Brian
No Point
Cared
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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.
Forrest Griffin / Mixed Martial Artist
Backup
Beast
Unfortunate
Fighters
Move On
Plan
Quit
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Just know on the inside that you won't quit. That's it. There is nothing else. Shakespeare said, 'To thine own self be true'. I don't know what the @*$% he meant by that, but just don't quit on yourself. It's worth it. The juice is worth the squeeze. I assure you.
Forrest Griffin / Mixed Martial Artist
Juice
Quitting
Self
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I've always mid-lined myself where I don't really expect myself to do big things or to win big fights. It's not a lack of confidence, it's just that I think to an extent that you need a bit of an ego if you're going to think that you're going to conquer something.
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Big Things
Conquer
Extent
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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.
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Life Power Great
Prepare
Quit
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Every injury is specific to what has happened, but the advice that I will give is that if you have a lower body injury, to work your upper body out. If you have an upper body injury, work your lower body out. Again, move what is not broken and you will definitely feel better.
Forrest Griffin / Mixed Martial Artist
Injury
Lower
Upper
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Me and my step-dad shared a $500 Chevy Celebrity, a 1983 Dodge Ram truck, and an old Ford Ranger truck - it was a piece of junk. I hated that thing. It fell apart. It didn't always go in reverse. So I drove in a circle or I would just get somebody to sit in the thing and I would push it backward.
Forrest Griffin / Mixed Martial Artist
Chevy
Dodge
Junk
Truck
Backward
Circle
Drove
Ford
Ram
Ranger
Shared
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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.
Forrest Griffin / Mixed Martial Artist
Clean Water
Miles
Tap
Millions Of People
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When I announced my retirement, that was actually when I was trying to come back and I realized, it just wasn't viable. It passed me by. My shoulder is done. I brush my teeth with my left hand now. That's just the way it goes. I can't shoot a basketball, I can't throw any kind of ball. I was right handed.
Forrest Griffin / Mixed Martial Artist
Retirement
Teeth
Announced
Brush
Me Way Done
Handed
Shoulder
Viable
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I've been victimized by general filthiness on multiple occasions... I received a nasty staph infection... I was told to wait it out... a few days later I literally thought I was going to die... I ended up being on antibiotics for five weeks and, as a result, I had to back out of the fight against Machida.
Forrest Griffin / Mixed Martial Artist
Antibiotics
Infection
Multiple
Nasty
General
Weeks
Ended
Wait
Literally
Received
Result
Victimized
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If you look at UFC champions: BJ Penn - terrifying! GSP - terrifying! Anderson Silva - terrifying! But I'm not terrifying. 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 worldBut I will not quit, I will not break and I will fight you like a dog for every second of every round. I am not a super-talented guy, I'm just a dude who will fight you tooth and nail.
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Dog
Fighting
Ufc
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It’s one of those things where when you’re training and fighting, you can’t worry about your bills, your mortgage, did you get your girlfriend pregnant, your pet’s cancer, or anything. Nothing else matters but that dude trying to kick you in the face or throw you on your head or trying to rip your arm out of the socket. It becomes a singularity of purpose, which an ADD kid like me rarely gets. I like that moment of clarity in fights, and I truly have that. I lose myself in the details of those 15 minutes and you don’t worry about what people think of you.
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Cancer
Girlfriend
Rip
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