Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Cody Garbrandt - Page 2

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

Lord willing, I'll have longevity and have a lot of success.

I have the utmost respect for Thomas Almeida.

What's great about this sport is the individuality of it. Everyone is different. Everyone has a different fighting style, different fan base. You can build your own self. You're kind of self made in this game.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Dominick Cruz, that would be a fun rematch.

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

That's why I jumped into the UFC and the fight game to do this, it's to be the greatest.

I can easily make 125 pounds.

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

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

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

I've always been brought up on loyalty.

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.

You've got to have a short memory in this game, and move forward. Pick yourself up after a loss, and check yourself after a win.

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

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 was 25 years old, a world champion.

All I've got to do is win at the end of the day and the checks keep coming in.

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

I lost an amateur fight where it was supposed to be my last amateur fight before going pro and people were like, 'Oh, you think you're going to make this? You just got knocked out as an amateur?' And I went on to win 13 fights straight and become a world champion, the best in the world.

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

I went from the top of the world 11-0, 25 years old, world champion to a three-fight skid.

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.

I know I hit like a Mack Truck.

I want some big money. I feel like I'm a good ticket-seller.

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

I'm in this sport to challenge myself.

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

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.

I'm gonna be a better McGregor. I'm gonna be the American superstar. He's the Ireland superstar.

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

I barely graduated high school.

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

I can judge someone by body language and eyes.

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