UFC 118 headliners, UFC lightweight champ Frankie Edgar and former champ BJ Penn participated in a media conference call on Thursday to help promote their upcoming fight on Aug. 28 in Boston.
Penn talked about the upcoming fight and the future for the 31 year old fighter. We’ve put together some of “The Prodigy’s” better quotes from the press conference from around the web here for you to check out.
-”I don’t know if I sit there and say ‘well, I’m happy that Frankie’s a worthy opponent.’ One thing he did was wake me up, and makes me realize it never stops. When you hear people say ‘you’re the greatest of all time and this and that’ it’s all bullshit. It’s not real. It’s fake.”
-”Being a champion is fake, all that, it’s all fake. You’ve got to go out there, you’ve got to keep training, training as hard as you can, and keep winning fights.”
-”Every time you get a loss, you take a different path and get back on your journey,” Penn said. “I believe if I had won that fight I would have changed nothing about my game.
“I definitely think this (is the prime of my career). I’m 31. I have tons of experience. I’m not looking past Frankie, but I think I’m about to go on a run.”
“The loss to Frankie made me step back and realize I want to fight as much as I can,” Penn said. “After the fight with Frankie, I want to fight the next month or the next week.
-”I don’t know if my biological clock is ticking or what, but I want to fight as much as possible. I want to make a push to be a true fighter, and I think I could be very active.”
“I thought I was God’s gift to fighting,” Penn said. “I thought I would go 100-0 with 100 knockouts. When I sit back and look at my record, I can’t believe I have six losses. It just blows me away.
“No one is untouchable — and if they are, they just haven’t run into the right guy yet.”
HT: LasVegasSun.com, FightersOnlyMagazine.co.uk, and MMAWeekly.com.