Quotes from Cody Garbrandt

I've fought my whole life. I've fought whoever they put in front of me. Whether it was in boxing or in the street or whatever, I've never backed down from a fight.

I don't think I was ever in a mindset where I don't want to fight cause I feel like every time that I tried to draw away from fighting, I was always pulled back in.

If someone pushes me, they're getting knocked out. They're going to get in a fight.

I go out there and live or die by the sword and I'm willing to put the work in that needs to be to obtain the goal that I set out to do.

Win or lose, when I outclassed Dominick Cruz, I gave him my respect.

I'm obsessed with this sport. I'm obsessed with getting better. I'm obsessed with winning. Losing's part of it. It challenges you to grow.

T.J.'s not a good person. He's not a good person. He's kind of a generic version of Dominick Cruz.

I barely graduated high school.

I'm chasing greatness.

I always say, 'Honor thy mother and go to war for my brother.'

Covid did affect me for quite some time but my body healed. I repaired it and rebuild it.

The quickest time to rehydrate is right after you're done training, so I'm always carrying these gallons of water to drink, drink, drink so my body can recover faster. And that's a huge part of being able to take damage, by the way. If you're hydrated, your brain is lubricated, you can take bigger shots.

I got a shirt that says 'Hanging with the boys,' I call everybody 'boy.'

I have the heaviest hands in my division.

Obviously, if you're able to become a two division world champion - not many are world champions in their life or their career. I have the opportunity to do this.

Before I got in the UFC, I wrote down on a piece of paper a goal that I was going to make it to the UFC in 2015 and then I'll be the world champion before 2017 so I'm right on track. I pull out that piece of paper all the time and look at it. It's motivation.

Under two years in the UFC, I became a world champion. That's a fast track.

I went from the top of the world 11-0, 25 years old, world champion to a three-fight skid.

I have been a world champion, I have climbed that mountain.

I go from unranked to world champion in one year.

I was 25 years old, a world champion.

My money thing, I never wanted to have my motivation to be money, that's not why I got into this sport, I got into it to be a world champion.

Can't fight destiny. It's my destiny to be a world champion.

I lost an amateur fight where it was supposed to be my last amateur fight before going pro and people were like, 'Oh, you think you're going to make this? You just got knocked out as an amateur?' And I went on to win 13 fights straight and become a world champion, the best in the world.