Top 50 Benson Henderson Quotes

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I'm pretty low-key. I'm pretty boring, to be honest.

I’m pretty low-key. I’m pretty boring, to be honest.
Benson Henderson
I think it’s smart to fight to the end of your contract and see what your worth is on the open market.
Benson Henderson
I’d say for sure though, read the fine print in the contract. Make sure after you defend your belt for however many times and then you lose, you’re not making less money than a kid who had three fights in the UFC. That’s a shame. That’s laughable. That is a shame.
Benson Henderson
Being able just to worry about what it is I do best, going in there and beating somebody up, getting my hand raised – that’s what I really like doing.
Benson Henderson
It’s about how much hard work you put in and who works harder – that’s who wins the fights. The fight itself, when the cameras are there, that’s your chance to show off and say, ‘You millions of people around the world watching this, look what I can do!’
Benson Henderson
I’m always trying to add new tricks, work on my fundamentals, and get better and improve.
Benson Henderson
You lay the groundwork, stay on the grind, and then eventually you get those big huge national deals with TV stations that are seen worldwide.
Benson Henderson
Bellator is collecting talent, collecting world-level talent all across the board.
Benson Henderson
I lost in my junior year of college in the NAIA national semifinals in 2005 and I’m not over that. I got inside leg tripped by Jake Dieffenbach and failed to go to the national title match. I don’t get over things.
Benson Henderson
I think unions are a good thing, but sometimes, not to get too political, but unions can go the wrong way, but the idea of unions are good, they’re smart, they’re positive for the average American in the workforce.
Benson Henderson
You try to make your sparring sessions as realistic as possible.
Benson Henderson
By the time I hit 33 I intend on retiring. I’m done after that.
Benson Henderson
A lot of guys need to get back in shape, I’m in the gym all the time so I don’t really lose my conditioning as much as other people.
Benson Henderson
I’m not as big of a fan of being loud, brash and boisterous just for the sake of selling a fight.
Benson Henderson
Bellator is open to a fighters union – fighters binding together to see what’s in our best interest. That’s something you can’t even breathe about elsewhere. I think it’s a good thing for myself and other fighters to have that.
Benson Henderson
You work on you doing your thing, sticking to your game plan, not letting stuff distract you and get you into a danger zone.
Benson Henderson
When you actually have a little bit of food and some calories behind you, it just feels better.
Benson Henderson
Everybody I step in the cage against I have the utmost respect for.
Benson Henderson
The bigger size of the weight class, guys are going to get tired a little bit quicker. They get tired to where they can’t even keep their hands up in the fourth and fifth round.
Benson Henderson
I first decided that I could make a career of MMA after I decided to take it seriously and not act like a teenager in some band, but fully commit myself like a professional. Roughly, when I decided to up and move in the middle of the night from Omaha, Neb. to Denver, Colo. for proper training.
Benson Henderson
All fighters are pretty confident by nature, that’s just how we are.
Benson Henderson
Whether you want more money, whether you want more fame, whether you want more attention, whether you want a bigger house, whether you want a bigger contract, whatever it is you want, you have to win your next fight. That’s it.
Benson Henderson
I’m always in the gym, six hours a day. I’m in the gym all the time, six days a week. It’s one of the reason why my training camps are a little bit shorter. My training camp is five weeks long because I only need four weeks to get into fighting shape.
Benson Henderson
Anytime you have anybody that’s physically a great athlete and a great specimen, they have the work ethic. They know how to work, know how to improve, know how to get better. They are special athletes.
Benson Henderson
Just as fighters you have to be smart, you have to read the fine print in your contract and you have to do what’s best for your family.
Benson Henderson
You’re never going to release the next album and have it be different from your other two, three, four, five albums. People give them a hard time, but it’s like, ‘I’m an artist, I’m trying to grow. I don’t want to have the same album for 10 albums in a row!’ Same thing for a martial artist.
Benson Henderson
You want to raise good kids, but it doesn’t happen in one day. You want to be a great fighter, but it doesn’t happen overnight. It takes time.
Benson Henderson
I don’t want to be one of those guys who says, ‘No, I won’t fight that guy’ or ‘I won’t fight the guy there; I need to fight him here,’ or that sort of stuff. The UFC says, ‘This is who you’re fighting next,’ and I say, ‘Cool. Let’s do it.’
Benson Henderson
I think the mental aspect is important in all fights.
Benson Henderson
We’re fighters. Stop worrying about showing up in a fur coat. Get out of here with that.
Benson Henderson
There’s whole lot of things you can get better at, improve on, day to day.
Benson Henderson
Of course to be a legend of the sport you have to truly

Of course to be a legend of the sport you have to truly have to have a love for MMA. You can be successful in MMA without having that love.
Benson Henderson
It’s a very slippery slope when you have a world champion boxer fighting an MMA guy for the sake of money, and he can’t knock him out in the first round. He has to make sure he carries him a little bit.
Benson Henderson
I had a very big chip on my shoulder – I won’t even lie to you. I had a very large chip on my shoulder.
Benson Henderson
I love to talk to kids and be a positive influence. It’s good to hear about positive things and someone say ‘do the right things’ from someone other than their grandma or their mom.
Benson Henderson
I think competition is good. The world we live in, we’re a capitalistic society and we’re all about having options, so I think it’s good.
Benson Henderson
I was born in Colorado Springs and I spent a lot of time there. I moved to Denver when I first started training in MMA full time.
Benson Henderson
A lot worse things can happen than losing your world title. But I was able to come to terms with it, accept it, be mature about it.
Benson Henderson
There’s a difference between being over something and learning to deal with it.
Benson Henderson
You’ve got to earn way to a title shot.
Benson Henderson
I didn’t know that I would be the UFC champion. Did I intend on being the UFC champ? Yeah, absolutely. I didn’t exactly see myself doing this as a full time job or career but I certainly intended for it when I started down this path.
Benson Henderson
For sure I think the traditional martial arts is a good background to have and definitely allows me to do a lot different things inside the cage. My wrestling background definitely helps me out a lot, but I don’t think either one led directly to MMA.
Benson Henderson
If you want the belt, you’ve got to fight everybody that lines up in front of you. You have to prove yourself by beating them anyways, so what does it matter if you beat them before you have the belt or after you have the belt?
Benson Henderson
You want to say you’re the best on the planet? Well, prove it by beating this person and that person. Beat everybody.
Benson Henderson
I like getting my hand raised and I’ll take it any way I can get it. Slipping on a banana peel, by the skin of my teeth. By any means, you know?
Benson Henderson
Fighting is hard, fighting is tough. You get beat up in the body. It’s hard; it takes a toll on your body.
Benson Henderson
Sometimes, you go out there and get knocked out in the first seven seconds. That might be one out of 10 times, but that is why we fight.
Benson Henderson
You just can’t say ‘I’ll fight anybody.’ Some guys do that early in their career, and their careers never have a chance to develop, because they have had five fights at 170 pounds, when they’re walking around at 147 pounds. It’s not smart.
Benson Henderson
Seeing the fight game and seeing the way things have worked out, a guy could be on a seven-fight, monstrous win streak and not get a title shot. There’s no rhyme or reason to it.
Benson Henderson
Every fight is a close dogfight.
Benson Henderson