Quotes from Joe Rogan

There's a confidence and a mental toughness that comes from the very highest level of competition, whatever the sport is. Whether it's boxing or wrestling, or whatever.

By putting yourself in that intense form of stress, it makes regular life more peaceful.

I had a sense of who I was before I got famous.

If you are the greatest, why would you go around talking about it?

It's impossible to measure the type of mental strength and determination that's required to be an elite wrestler.

Someone else's success does not equal a failure for you.

I had seen movies before that that had made me laugh, but I had never seen anything even remotely close to as funny as Richard Pryor was, just standing there talking.

That's my only goal. Surround myself with funny people, and make sure everyone has a good time and works hard.

The misconception is that standup comics are always on. I don't know any really funny comics that are annoying and constantly trying to be funny all the time.

It's painful for me to watch someone who isn't funny. It's horrifying to sit in the back and watch some guy who just totally sucks.

Never stay in a bad marriage, and don't hang around with psycho coke fiends.

I never in my wildest imagination dreamed that I would somehow become a sports commentator.

The only time I commit to conspiracy theories is when something way retarded happens. Like Lee Harvey Oswald acting alone.

If you can lie, you can act, and if you can lie to crazy girlfriends, you can act under pressure.

The audience changes every night. You're the same person. You have to speak your mind and do the stuff that you think is funny and makes you laugh.

I really feel like it's a travesty to make a child famous. I really do.

I wouldn't totally rule out doing Letterman or the Tonight Show if I had a set that I just happened to write that I thought was funny but was still appropriate for network censors. But I'm not going to go out of my way.

I had a sense of who I was before I got famous.

Your body's really only meant to compete at the highest levels of combat sports for a few years.

I've done jiujitsu a huge chunk of my life, and I try to spend a lot of time educating people on the nuances, the subtleness of the ground game. It's a big part of mixed martial arts.

Apartment living is tough action. Just the whole idea that you share a washer and dryer always freaked me out.

Reality really is theater. There's no other way to describe it. It's all so nonsensical, ridiculous and chaotic.

The only time I commit to conspiracy theories is when something way retarded happens. Like Lee Harvey Oswald acting alone.

The Comedy Store in LA, it's a really loose room and it's really dark and creepy and a great place to explore your own thoughts onstage.