Jon Fitch Quotes

I'm very good at what I do and there's not too many people in the world that have an answer for what I can do.

I don't care about proving things to people. I'm proving things to myself.

I think I'm better than Jake (Shields), I think I should be fighting for the title, but I've been given a huge opportunity here to fight B.J. Penn and that's a big fight, belt or no belt. We're in a sport of selling fights right now, and the sport's growing, we're trying to get international, trying to get into every country, every household, and part of that is ticket sales is the idea that Jake Shields is coming over from Strikeforce with two belts. I understand that, it's a business decision.

Fans want heroes. They're bored. They want a hero and want to follow that guy.

Only worry about things that are within your control

I always enjoyed working out and pushing myself physically and mentally as much as I possibly could.

You have to have good training partners and not people who crank on things. There's a difference between cranking on it and catching it, holding it and making the guy work out. You have to be selective with your training partners for sure.

You can have a whole warehouse full of weapons, but if someone attacks you need to get that weapon fast. If you have to run to the warehouse and look around, you're going to get killed. You're better off with a little backpack of weapons instead of that warehouse.