Quotes from Justin Gaethje

I'm a great defensive wrestler.

I am a Division 1 wrestler.

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

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'm not infallible. Never will be.

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.

Natural human instinct, reaction, whatever, is if you're perfect, you're going to try to skate by and get by, get away with things the easiest way possible.

I'm so much better than James Vick.

Do I think people are sleeping on me? Absolutely.

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.

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.

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.

When I lose, I'll get knocked out. It won't be because I got outworked or outskilled or anything like that.

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

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

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.

Me and my brother, as anybody who's a twin will tell you... it's a competitive relationship. Ours is really competitive.

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.

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.

My pressure is second to none and my timing and attitude are second to none, and that's what I want to be recognized for; not for being undefeated, because what does that mean? That just means you won. And I want to known for my style and the way that I fight, the timing that I bring and the fact that I rely on my reactions, stuff like that.

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

God, it's such an unforgiving sport.

At the end of the day, it's an unforgiving sport.