A biography for Greg Hardyhasn’t been written yet.
“With all that I've been through, I deserve to be fun-loving.”
“Regardless of who you are and what you do, there's going to be people that hate you. You're going to have to deal with things.”
“Anybody that goes against me is going to have a bad day.”
“I'm well spoken, I'm pretty, I eat well. I'm a great father and a great citizen. I'm an awesome American.”
“The UFC always has my back.”
“I want to play at 275 pounds.”
“I just don't think somebody that's been to prison is allowed to say what the standard is.”
“I'm here to be the greatest combat sports heavyweight of all-time, and if that includes taking out Jon Jones to do that, then that's what I've got to do.”
“I'm not a villain.”
“I want to be the fighting heavyweight of the world. America needs one of those, and I can be that guy for them.”
“The best thing for any team is to make the quarterback feel pain. You've got to be respectful of the rules of the game and honestly you don't want to hurt anybody, but to make him feel you is to bring his eyes down.”
“Nothing is guaranteed in the UFC, nothing is guaranteed in the NFL, so it's my lane. I'm very comfortable in this lane.”
“I'm the fights sports' athlete version of what Michael Jordan could be.”
“I feel like every single fight, the difference in my game, the difference that you see in Greg Hardy, the fighter, has been substantial.”
“That was my goal, initially, to make sure the difference could be seen; to make sure I was maturing over time and applying it to every fight so that every fight, you get a better fighter, a more evolved fighter.”
“The Kraken is a giant monster that just demolishes everything that moves. On Wednesday or Thursday, I go down in my subconscious. I find him, and I unlock the cage. About Saturday he usually comes out. Then he's always out on Sunday. I don't control him then. What he does when I'm not there, I don't know.”
“I want to be the great American heavyweight.”
“The bar where I want to get to is astronomically high.”
“Some people from my past coming to extort me, put me in crazy situations, trying to take food out of my family's mouth and just a lot of outside circumstances.”
“What kind of villain would I be? I've never been convicted of anything that they said I was.”