Top 99 Quotes & Sayings by Justin Gaethje

Twenty-five minutes is a long time to stay focused. It's really something I had to work on to go in there and not get complacent for 2 seconds or 5 seconds or 1 second. That's all it takes.

Humans recognize effort, and that's what I do. I give max effort.

What I do is not for the faint of heart, but I'm a different breed.

I could lose and it could be the best fight ever, it still does great things for me.

Do I think people are sleeping on me? Absolutely.

It's life or death for me every single time I step in the cage.

I respect the boss.

I've been saying I'm the best in the world for a long time.

This is entertainment business and I fight for money.

I don't get hit a ton on the button.

I wish I was fighting Jason High in his hometown. I would put him to sleep in front of all his fans. He's mainly a wrestler, but I'm an All-American wrestler. So I'm really not worried about Jason High.

In hindsight, I'd love to be undefeated still, but that's not what this sport is.

I know plenty of wrestlers who are 15-0 and going nowhere.

I've never been in a street fight before, like one-on-one.

I watched the UFC way back in the day, before there were time limits. I always knew it's what I wanted to do some day.

I know that the only way I'm going to advance in this sport is to be exciting and to finish fights, and I'm fine with that.

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.

I'm not saying I'd walk through everybody. There's some great fights for me, though, and I'd put on a hell of a show with a lot of the fighters in the top 10. My pressure is second to none, and a lot of them don't have any way to prepare for what I'm going to be bring.

When you win, you get to pick someone in front of you to fight.

False confidence is false confidence.

I want to fight Khabib. I think I'm one of the biggest threats to his title.

I'm hoping to earn enough to buy a few properties, that way I can make money that way and I want to do social work.

I'm very levelheaded.

I'm not larger than life, my personality is not larger than life, I promise you. But when I fight I am larger than life, I promise you that.

I wrestled Jordan Burroughs two times - Jordan Burroughs had a hell of a time trying to take me down. I stopped his double leg numerous times. And he also, probably, fractured my sternum - from me trying to stop him.

I'm trying to be as real as I can and I'm being myself. I'm not gonna create an act.

I want to be the world champion.

I get paid by the fight, not by the minute.

I'm a coachable person. I don't like to lead myself. I've been taught by great people, and I was able to listen to them.

I've been telling people I need to start smiling to my opponents and shaking hands and just being nice, so then when the bell rings, I catch them off-guard, because I used to catch people off-guard, but everyone's ready now.

I'm not an idiot.

You will regret not seeing me fight live.

A lot of people say I'm reckless and I take too many shots. I take shots on the forehead. There's nothing wrong with that. It puts me in punching range.

There's not a lot of people that can sit there and take the punishment that I can deliver.

This is a making-money business, and the only way to make money is knocking people out. Lying on someone? That's pathetic to me. You gotta drop a bomb.

I love the sport, I'm a fan of MMA, I've been a fan of MMA since before I started it, I was a fan of Eddie Alvarez before I started fighting, so just the culmination of events that have transpired in my life through hard work, through specifically hard work, it's just, I'm happy.

My only goal ever in a fight was to go in there and create chaos. Now, I want to control the chaos that hate's created. I want to fight in the right spots.

Barboza is up there. He's a scary fight, but I like being scared. And that's a fight that me, as a fan, would want to see. I know how much fans would love something like that. So I'll go out there and try to finish that dude with leg kicks.

I got into wrestling when I was four years old.

Whoever they send me a contract for, I'll fight him.

When I sat down and knew I was going to go to the UFC, I thought of Edson Barboza and I almost had a panic attack. And then right away I called my manager Ali Abdel-Aziz. I said, 'Ali, that's the fight I want.' I think it's the worst fight in the lightweight division for me, the scariest.

I went to college, I wrestled and I took some amateur fights. When I graduated, I wanted to start using my degree, but I figured I would start fighting professionally. Then I won 18 in a row and I fought Eddie Alvarez on pay-per-view.

I'm not infallible. Never will be.

I have a human services bachelors degree and I want to work social work, I want to work with at-risk youth.

I am a Division I All-American wrestler, but I wrestled college wrestling matches, seven minutes long. If I was to go in there and wrestle for seven minutes of a fight, a 25-minute fight, you're not getting nothing out of me for the rest of the time.

I happen to have a college education and I never planned on being a fighter.

Melvin Guillard went to a split decision with me, he left the third round in a wheelchair. He did not walk to the back - he left in a wheelchair.

When I take a right hand, I roll with it. I don't absorb every single bit of the punch. There's different ways to alleviate some of the force of a punch besides just getting out of the way. When I take it, it's on my gloves.

I watch a little bit of tape to pick up small stuff, but I don't try to pick apart my opponent's game plan. I'm going to keep coming forward. I don't ever take a step backward. I get hit, and I'm right back into range.

I know for a fact entertainment is more important than winning.

I win and lose in one way. And that's either putting them to sleep or putting it on the line and going to sleep.

I do think I'm the best lightweight in the world.

My timing and pressure is the definition of MMA.

I've wanted to - and have been - testing myself against the best guys in the world.

I like to take chances.

I don't fight to win or lose. I fight to entertain people.

I just like punching loudmouths in the face.

I had no idea if I could fight when I first started. My first four amateur fights, I had never even been punched in the face or trained of any kind.

People love the fact Chael Sonnen is saying he's undefeated. It's crazy to me that people like something like that but don't give respect to the fighters that just put it on the line.

I was always sort of a competitor.