Jon Fitch Quotes

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.

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

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

Only worry about things that are within your control

Experience is the highest level of knowing.

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.

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.

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

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

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.