A biography for Forrest Griffinhasn’t been written yet.
“It sucks when you do poorly at your job.”
“I am a Georgia guy, and I have Brett Favre's card when he played with the Atlanta Falcons. That's my retirement plan.”
“You talk to people, and they don't understand our water. They come and turn on a tap and drink clean water, and to them, that's amazing. Millions of people around the world have to carry water miles and miles, and that's all they have. It's hard for fat Americans like myself to even understand that.”
“There are two things I want to be able to know when I walk into a fight, or with anything in life. And I'm not Superman, I'm not even that great at fighting. Those two things are: I have done everything in my power to prepare for this and I will not quit, no matter what.”
“I remember being 32 years old and feeling great, better than ever physically. Then at 33, I tore my shoulder and was out for eight months, and it was like I fell off a cliff. I was never the same.”
“Gay, straight, whatever - none of that actually matters when you're fighting someone. Not what you have in your bank account, what you drive, what sex you are, none of it. I think that's the message the UFC has been trying to push.”
“I hate when someone gets the better of me. A Division 1 wrestler comes in and takes me down and I get frustrated.”
“Anyone can get beaten in mixed martial arts. It's the nature of the sport.”
“Winning the belt is one thing. But you're not really a champion until you defend it.”
“Whatever Brett Favre does, it's a sign of the apocalypse.”
“I'm not a naturally giving person.”
“For like a year, even after I retired, my ear would just bleed. There was just some scar tissue on it that tore open so many times that it just started bleeding all the time. It's rough on the wife, she has to keep washing the sheets again and again.”
“You have to move on with your life at some point. You don't quit fighting, fighting quits you at some point. It's very unfortunate, but that's the nature of the beast. And that's one of those things, too, that I like to tell young fighters. Have a backup plan.”
“Anytime you think about ring rust and travel and camps back-to-back, it helps not having any bad injuries and being able to train consistently.”
“You get away from something long enough, you miss it. You get hungry for it.”
“HIV is not a gay or straight disease. It's a young people's disease, unfortunately.”
“It's very unmanly to change yourself for others. Be comfortable with oneself. There have been feminist movements but there's never been a male one.”
“I do actually enjoy the process of putting my thoughts down on paper and having people actually read them.”
“I always wanted to work in charitable things, community outreach, etc.”
“I say whatever's on my mind, I don't really care.”