A biography for Forrest Griffinhasn’t been written yet.
“It's nice to get to do other things and not worry about fighting.”
“I'm never going to struggle but I definitely want to make more money, we all do.”
“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.”
“I had some pretty substantial injuries.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I think anyplace people can be themselves is a good thing.”
“People think TRT is for lazy people. No, it's just you're just trying to improve yourself.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Here's the deal: the extraordinary becomes ordinary really quickly. One minute, everything is new and amazing, the next it's expected.”
“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?”
“If it were up to me, I'd be fighting chumps.”
“I love football and basketball but fighting is the original, most primitive to our nature.”
“I'm pretty careful not to make friends with other guys who fight at 205.”
“I am not a super-talented guy, I'm just a dude who will fight you tooth and nail.”
“Time catches everyone. Sooner or later, it gets everybody.”
“You would have to be born with a gene that doesn't allow you to recognize sarcasm if you take anything I say seriously.”
“Thiago Santos is a guy who can take your belt from you with one punch.”
“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.”