Justin Gaethje Quotes

I've trained hundreds of hundreds of rounds of sparring at American Top Team.

MMA guys, we sparred a lot of them training for KSI because of the wild punches.

I'm a guy who's in there everyday with world-class grapplers feeling that pressure.

I'm a professional fighter. My game plan is to fight standing up and to fight on the ground.

I miss submitting people; I have a lot of confidence in my jiu-jitsu.

I'm a huge UFC fan. I train. I do jiu-jitsu, taekwondo.

I've learned about every aspect of MMA.

Yes, I came into this sport as just a grappler, but the more I learn, the more it shines in my fights.

I've been the best fighter in the world at kickboxing - they can't take that away from me - but when I started in MMA, I realized how great this sport is. It's the ultimate combat sport, and that's why I want to be the world's best at it.

It's a dream of mine to be a mixed martial arts world champion.

At the end of the day, when two combatants get into the ring and/or cage, it's anybody's game, especially in MMA.

I tried martial arts classes for three weeks, but I quit because you actually get hit. I just want to do the movie kind of martial arts.

I learnt a blend of different martial arts - not in great depth, obviously - but various moves such as kicks, blocks and punches. It was all quite fun.

I don't have to prove anything else in this MMA world.

Jiu-jitsu fighters usually have an advantage in longer fights even though MMA has breaks between rounds.

Georges St-Pierre is a good fighter who is proving his place in MMA with every fight.

I have a very good ground game and very good wrestling. People just underestimate it. That's it. I want to keep it like that.

MMA has a referee, and you're wearing gloves. I'm in there with another volunteering participant that's out there to win some prize money.

There's just a spirit about you that it's such a beautiful art form in which you can implement strategy in order to subdue another individual. And I really feel like that's in wrestling and UFC; we're kind of - we collaborate in that way.

I'm a fighter now. I'm officially a mixed martial artist. I'm not a wrestler no more.

I want to fight Gilbert Melendez.

If you look at my fights, you see I finish a lot. It's just how I like to go and I'm always looking for a way to end it.

I want to be eventually be the best wrestler out there, be the best grappler out there, along with being the best striker - be all of them at one time.

MMA has evolved. When you look at an MMA fighter's skill set, boxing has to be a big piece of it. All of them have a boxing coach now and strive to have a good stand-up game, knowing that to be a complete fighter, you have to tend to your striking skills.

From early on in my career, I was always challenged to create things. Early in my career, I created 'ground and pound.' When I fought Royce Grace the second time, I developed that: stay on guard, follow the hips, press the legs down, press the hips down. When he rested, I ground and pounded him.