Jon Fitch Quotes & Sayings

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

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

Bad choices almost always result from making a choice out of fear. — Jon Fitch

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. — Jon Fitch

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. — Jon Fitch

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. — Jon Fitch

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. — Jon Fitch

My opponent is my teacher and I am his teacher. I have to show him what he's doing wrong and I have to learn from what he's teaching me. You can't think of him as an enemy, it's the wrong mindset, you don't fight with anger or hate, you're always going to lose that way. — Jon Fitch

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

Experience is the highest level of knowing. — Jon Fitch

One of the reasons I got into fighting was because I'd never really been in a fight. It's like in Fight Club, the famous line, 'How much can you really know about yourself if you've never been in a fight?' ... It's the the clearest mirror you'll ever stand in front of. — Jon Fitch

Only worry about things that are within your control — Jon Fitch