Justin Gaethje Quotes

We learned early that when dirty campaign tactics are used against you, you respond, pivot and then deck them.

As a player, sometimes you expect something to happen every time the ball is in the box. Every time somebody falls down, you get nervous because you have to watch your back because anything can happen.

There's two sides to the game, and you have to do the ugly side as well. If you're getting beat, and you're conceding the goals that we're getting beaten by, then it's because you're not defending and shutting people down well enough.

Reach, and all that other stuff, doesn't play as big a part in MMA as it does in boxing. Guys don't really fight with their length all that much, because they have to worry about the takedown or kicks. They have to worry about so many other things that they can't just fight real tall.

When you're fighting a guy like DC, he's just coming in and pushes you. You have to push him back.

When you are a coach, you are watching how the team is positioning itself on the field - if your team is in possession of the ball, you are already anticipating what could happen if you lose the ball.

They say that the best form of defence is attack, but maybe I have to take a look at how I defend.

I think I have that ability to win the ball back quickly when we lose it.

Defending is an art, everybody has forgotten it.

I always try to go in there and stick to my base, which is the defensive end, and then just let the offense come to me.

When we have to defend, I just try to recover the ball for the team because it's important, but I always try to go forward when we have the ball.

My low center of gravity allows me to defend takedowns a lot better than most people. It's very hard to get to my legs. It's going to be really hard to take me down. There are a lot of positives to being my size.

I don't really focus on the guy that's defending me.

Sometimes it is difficult to play against teams who just drop back and try to defend.

Canelo is a counterpuncher, a boxer, and that's what I am.

When you fight me, you aren't going to be able to be so careful. They better block their face and knock me out. I'm going to hit them, kick them. I'm going to come forward. They'll have to run, literally run, backwards. That's the only way to get away from me. And eventually you're going to run into the cage.

If you concede early against a quality team, you have to play more openly - and can get picked off.

We want to put pressure on the defense.

I'm good everywhere. I can defend the takedowns. I can get a guy down if I want them. I can keep it standing and strike. I can do it all.

When you play against a top side, you know they will have more possession, and they will be in more control, and you have to find one or two counterattacks.

Tactically, Italians are very strong. They are a lot into tactics: how to defend, when you lose the ball, where will you be?

I love when people try to be physical with me. They think that's the way to try to guard me and to get physical with me. I use that to my advantage.

Many activists and antagonists who are on the wrong side of an issue employ the tactic of, 'the best defense is a good offense.'

I've been working on wrestling aside from MMA. That is something that I wasn't doing in the past so I'm getting more confident in my wrestling. I learned that I didn't know a lot about takedowns, it's a really big gap and I'm catching up and learning a lot.

Someone like Brian Cage, he's a gigantic man who is trying to wrestle like me. That's his mistake because I clearly hold the top card in someone who is wrestling like Matt Sydal.