I feel bad for guys in other sports that never work a job. Think about it, most MMA fighters have had to do something for money whereas a guy who was an athlete in college sport then went straight to the pros, he's never had a skill outside of sport.

Forrest Griffin

Work Sports Money

In the grand scheme of things, fighting people in the cage is not that big of a deal, I know. It's not a hero profession even though its treated as one. It's not being a soldier or police officer or paramedic of firefighter or anything.

Forrest Griffin

Age Treated Treat

I like deer. They're kinda cool.

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Cool T Like

If you look at UFC champions: BJ Penn - terrifying! GSP - terrifying! Anderson Silva - terrifying! But I'm not terrifying.

Forrest Griffin

You Yin UFC

Winning the belt is one thing. But you're not really a champion until you defend it.

Forrest Griffin

You Winning Win

I've always mid-lined myself where I don't really expect myself to do big things or to win big fights. It's not a lack of confidence, it's just that I think to an extent that you need a bit of an ego if you're going to think that you're going to conquer something.

Forrest Griffin

You Win Where

I always wanted to work in charitable things, community outreach, etc.

Forrest Griffin

Work Ways Way

I try to break a sweat every day doing something. Try to do hot pilates once a week. I'm not kidding. I actually hurt myself doing hot pilates, so I got that going for me.

Forrest Griffin

Week Very Try

I am not the super-submission guy, I am not the one-punch KO guy, so I am not the most feared guy in the world. But I will not quit, I will not break and I will fight you like a dog for every second of every round.

Forrest Griffin

Fear You World

You have the belt, you fight who they tell you to fight.

Forrest Griffin

You Who Tell

I do actually enjoy the process of putting my thoughts down on paper and having people actually read them.

Forrest Griffin

Tin Thoughts Thought

Look what happened when I fought Anderson Silva. It can't possibly get worse than that. I've already seen the bottom and it wasn't that bad. I made it through. I survived. It's fighting. It's not the end of the world.

Forrest Griffin

Worse World Tom

During a fight with Anderson Silva, I slipped on an imaginary banana peel.

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Wit T Son

I was a police officer in Augusta, Ga.

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Us T Police Officer

Every injury is specific to what has happened, but the advice that I will give is that if you have a lower body injury, to work your upper body out. If you have an upper body injury, work your lower body out. Again, move what is not broken and you will definitely feel better.

Forrest Griffin

Work Your You

I live the perfect life.

Forrest Griffin

Life T Perfect Life

It's long been a problem. But I'm not just talking about the UFC - I mean homophobia in sports in general and athletes sometimes say really stupid things.

Forrest Griffin

Time Sports Us

I'm kind of a grinder.

Forrest Griffin

Kind Grinder Grind

There are two things I want to be able to know when I walk into a fight, or with anything in life. And I'm not Superman, I'm not even that great at fighting. Those two things are: I have done everything in my power to prepare for this and I will not quit, no matter what.

Forrest Griffin

Power Life Great

You would have to be born with a gene that doesn't allow you to recognize sarcasm if you take anything I say seriously.

Forrest Griffin

You Would Wit

It gets old, all of it. People putting a lot of hopes and dreams on you. Telling you they put money on you, and 'you're my kid's idol.'

Forrest Griffin

Money Hope Dreams

I wrote an article for Revolver and it was very offensive.

Forrest Griffin

Taking care of your family is the manliest thing you can do.

Forrest Griffin

It's very unmanly to change yourself for others. Be comfortable with oneself. There have been feminist movements but there's never been a male one.

Forrest Griffin

I can do anything for 25 minutes.

Forrest Griffin

People think TRT is for lazy people. No, it's just you're just trying to improve yourself.

Forrest Griffin

What's wrong with wanting to be better at your job?

Forrest Griffin

I've always kind of been the guy next door who just happens to fight for a living. I tried to figure out what was special and marketable about me early on in my career and I realized that there's absolutely nothing special about me, so I wanted that.

Forrest Griffin

Unfortunately, I found out when I was trying to like square up with people and face off with people and, like, try to intimidate them and I'm pretty non-threatening.

Forrest Griffin

For like a year, even after I retired, my ear would just bleed. There was just some scar tissue on it that tore open so many times that it just started bleeding all the time. It's rough on the wife, she has to keep washing the sheets again and again.

Forrest Griffin

We grew up in an era where there was a lot of fear of HIV. Everybody worried about it and everybody took precautions, and everybody knew that it was a thing that was out there. As it slowed down, it left the spotlight, people forgot.

Forrest Griffin

HIV is not a gay or straight disease. It's a young people's disease, unfortunately.

Forrest Griffin

When I announced my retirement, that was actually when I was trying to come back and I realized, it just wasn't viable. It passed me by. My shoulder is done. I brush my teeth with my left hand now. That's just the way it goes. I can't shoot a basketball, I can't throw any kind of ball. I was right handed.

Forrest Griffin

You have to move on with your life at some point. You don't quit fighting, fighting quits you at some point. It's very unfortunate, but that's the nature of the beast. And that's one of those things, too, that I like to tell young fighters. Have a backup plan.

Forrest Griffin

You can't cuss on TV. It does hurt your brand if you do stuff like that. That's not what blue chip sponsors are looking for.

Forrest Griffin

Thiago Santos is a guy who can take your belt from you with one punch.

Forrest Griffin

It was weird, I saw the Brian Stann vs. Wanderlei fight, I thought, if I don't have another of those in me, there's no point in continuing. I never really cared about winning or losing, then don't put the product out there at all if it's going to be subpar.

Forrest Griffin

The biggest thing I learned is that when Dana says retire, you should retire. Otherwise, you will blow your knee out before your next fight.

Forrest Griffin

Nobody goes, 'I'm a top 10 fighter. Well, maybe Top 15. I can beat a lot of guys'... Nobody ever says that. That's the thing with having a grasp on reality. I know I'm not the best.

Forrest Griffin

I thought wrestling was the stuff where people jumped off ropes. So that was my experience with wrestling.

Forrest Griffin

I just love fighting. I know I'm not the best, but I'm still pretty good, there's a lot of people I can still beat. What do you do. What else am I supposed to do? I have no other skills. I enjoy doing this. There's nothing I'd really rather do, you know?

Forrest Griffin

My fitness philosophy is very different from the UFC fighter fitness philosophy. Mine is to work out in a way that you will be able to sustain for the next 20 years.

Forrest Griffin

My philosophy when I trained was to be 1% better every day.

Forrest Griffin

I will give one piece of advice that always keeps me going; get your body moving every day, no matter what. Don't truly have an off day, just move. Move light and try to get your body moving to break a light sweat.

Forrest Griffin

I hate flying so I always drive.

Forrest Griffin

I like listening to Method Man before fighting.

Forrest Griffin

The best car I ever had was a Mazda 626. I paid $72 for it. The guy told me if I towed it off his property I could do whatever I wanted to it. So I paid to have it towed to my house and me and my step-dad fixed it up and drove it until I totalled it.

Forrest Griffin

Me and my step-dad shared a $500 Chevy Celebrity, a 1983 Dodge Ram truck, and an old Ford Ranger truck - it was a piece of junk. I hated that thing. It fell apart. It didn't always go in reverse. So I drove in a circle or I would just get somebody to sit in the thing and I would push it backward.

Forrest Griffin

I feel bad for guys in other sports that never work a job. Think about it, most MMA fighters have had to do something for money whereas a guy who was an athlete in college sport then went straight to the pros, he's never had a skill outside of sport.

Forrest Griffin

I'm never going to struggle but I definitely want to make more money, we all do.

Forrest Griffin

I've made a ton of money but I don't have as much as I'd like.

Forrest Griffin