A biography for Justin Gaethjehasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“I just like punching loudmouths in the face.”
“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.”
“When I'm done, I want to be known as the fighter that everybody wishes they could've seen live.”
“I get paid by the fight, not by the minute.”
“Georges St-Pierre's doing it the best. He made his money, made his name, and now he's able to make money not fighting. That's what I want to do.”
“To be a superstar you have to win and you have to have something special. For me, I hope that knocking people out is my something special because I can't sell myself, per se, and become a different person on camera and a different person off camera.”
“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 know for a fact entertainment is more important than winning.”
“I have a human services bachelors degree and I want to work social work, I want to work with at-risk youth.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I want to be the world champion.”
“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 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 want to prove I'm the best in the world.”
“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 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.”
“Me and my brother, as anybody who's a twin will tell you... it's a competitive relationship. Ours is really competitive.”
“At the end of the day, it's an unforgiving sport.”