I am a huge, huge fan of this guy…

Say what you will, but Forrest Griffin is a gigantic personality and one hell of a fighter.

His loss to Silva was no shame, lots of fighters have done that, but there’s one arena in which he would seriously kick Anderson Silva’s hindquarters – the interview room.

Griffin is, next to Miguel Torres, the most interesting person in MMA.

As his UFC 106 rematch with Tito Ortiz on November 21st draws near, it’s clear that Griffin’s  a machine when it comes to quotes:

AFTER DISLOCATING HIS SHOULDER DURING A FIGHT
“My shoulder was out of the socket and immediately after I tapped the guy out I started rolling around in pain. I’m rolling around with this grimace on my face and people are like, ‘what happened?’ Well, look at my shoulder.”

A SOUTH AFRICAN COMMENTATOR’S VIEW OF THE POST-FIGHT
“The American with an interesting celebration.”

HIS PATH TO FAME
“I didn’t get here through all that hard work and winning fights nonsense; I got here through a TV game show, and I’m comfortable with that.”

SPARRING SESSIONS WITH STEPHAN BONNAR
“I don’t know. I’m too busy punching and getting punched to pay attention.”

ON FIGHTING
“It’s one of those things where when you’re training and fighting, you can’t worry about your bills, your mortgage, did you get your girlfriend pregnant, your pet’s cancer, or anything. Nothing else matters but that dude trying to kick you in the face or throw you on your head or trying to rip your arm out of the socket. It becomes a singularity of purpose, which an ADD kid like me rarely gets. I like that moment of clarity in fights, and I truly have that. I lose myself in the details of those 15 minutes and you don’t worry about what people think of you.”

ON MMA AS A BIG DEAL
“I realized things were changing when my mom’s friends – who are in their late 40’s and early 50’s – started calling me and asking me about the fights. I’ve got middle-aged women calling me and asking me about Matt Hughes, and I’m like ‘really, is this happening? These people are actually watching these fights.’”

THE BEST SELLER LIST
“You can hope, but you never know. We all like to be listened to in conversation, so for people to actually spend money to find out your thoughts on stuff is a very flattering concept. I thought that it might just get lost in the shuffle of there being so many fighters’ books. Now, it having the success it has, I’m almost thinking, man, if I had really tried, I could have really written a good book.”

JUST A REGULAR GUY
“You just keep doing what you’ve always been doing. I will tell you something crazy though; it’s amazing how quickly what one day was an amazing thing you couldn’t believe just becomes ordinary. Like doing interviews, people wanting to watch you work out, or anything like that, the extraordinary becomes ordinary pretty quick.”