Top 50 Joseph Benavidez Quotes

That’s how you continue your passion and find inspiration; getting new ideas, getting new looks and new visions. Those are ways to evolve and stay passionate.

My goal is to be UFC champion, and my eyes are on that prize.

My three most impressive fights have been against black belts in jiu-jitsu.

You just gotta stay positive and take every day as a chance to improve and every practice. And every week you’re not having a fight, there’s a chance to improve.

I wanted to fight Cejudo only because it meant I was gonna win the title. It wasn’t about fighting a person.

This sport is crazy, it moves along and we all have a short memory. No one realizes when fighters are out. They just remember their last fight and how they look now.

If I went out there and felt the best I ever felt and fought the best I’ve ever fought and lost, I would have to reconsider things and think differently. I would have a different outlook on my career.

I’m just looking for matches that make sense.

I bought a house after the Loveland fight. I wanted something grown up like an elephant or some flowers to put on the mantel. I decided I need a UFC belt.

I’ve gone through a lot to get here. I’m doing my job. And that No. 1 ranking next to my name says I’m doing my job better than a good percentage of everyone else.

To me, the best part about winning the belt is hugging my wife after.

I’m not going to bag on people and make funny jokes about my opponent. I just respect every opponent I go in against.

I’m not a guy who typically has an after-party. I like to have pizza in my hotel room with the people that went out to support me.

I think I could have asked for a title shot after I beat Ian McCall.

When I got into the sport and wrote down my goals, it was never to be a UFC main event or to be a on a UFC main card. It was to be the UFC champion.

You have to go out there and fight as hard as you can. You have to go out there and work as hard as you can and do the right things. Then you go out there and perform and either it’s good enough or it’s not.

Anytime I can take a fight, I feel good doing it.

I was sitting in the nosebleeds eating hot dogs and watching Georges St. Pierre win the world title from Matt Hughes. Like never in my wildest dreams if someone would have tapped me on the shoulder and said, ‘Hey, seven years from now you’re going to be down there doing the same thing’ would I have believed them.

When you go in there and fight, you pretty much relinquish and give up the right to make any excuses about something.

When I say I wasn’t a ‘meant to be’ guy, I’ve almost been jaded in the sport, where I don’t believe in anything.

You want to be respected by your bosses and peers.

I don’t believe someone like Cejudo would be scared of somebody.

People do that all the time – they switch teams, switch coaches, switch camps.

I hate when people come out after a fight and they talk about injuries.

We have physical therapy there now so any fighter with an injury in the UFC can come to Vegas and get treatment every day.

For me, I’ve been a part of a super-team in Team Alpha Male for so much of my career.

I never thought I was going to lose the first title fight. I was literally obsessed with the outcome only, and I couldn’t imagine any other way possible. I thought I was going to explode and die before I lost. But I lost.

Being the first flyweight champion would be history. I’d be immortal. No matter what I do, that’s always there.

I’m so passionate and love the craft of movies and watch them over and over.

The punches that don’t knock you out are the ones you feel the most.

I knew I had to just keep believing, never lose sight of my purpose. As a fighter, you need to be delusional in a way. It keeps you going.

When you appreciate something and you’re grateful for it – like going in to work everyday or just your partner or your job – you just do it that much better because you’re lucky that you’re doing it.

Cejudo would be awesome. It would be an honor to go out and fight an Olympian.

I want to prove I’m a great, exciting fighter.

Obviously becoming champion is always going to be my goal and something I want to accomplish, but I can’t control being the champion and winning and losing. You can’t control the result.

I wasn’t fighting in this sport from the beginning for any other reason than being the best.

The people need to know about guys like John Moraga.

That’s what Dominick Cruz does. He wins decisions and he has that down to a science. He’s great at it.

This is a lonely sport, the more family, the more laughs, and the more fun you can have, the better. At the end of the day, though, it’s one man’s journey to try and be the best in the world.

I think there’s no one out there more deserving of a title shot than me.

My dream has always been to be a UFC champion. It wasn’t to be a main event fighter.

I like to say I eat black belts for breakfast. They’re just great match-ups for me.

The thing is, it’s really hard to be the No. 1 absolute best in the world at something, no matter what you’re doing.

I can explode from both stances as a fighter. I can get up into my southpaw, give one good jab, sprawl, then get up into my orthodox, sprawl, go into southpaw and jab.

I’m actually a pretty quiet guy when it comes to fighting. I’m pretty serious. When I go out to fight people I’m not a big talker.

Our first job is to go out there and fight – not to do backflips or have a mustache.

People would ask me about my legacy, and I would tell them my legacy is what I did. You can’t change it. It’s just what you do or what you did.

Of course, in Joe Jitsu it is about a lot more than fighting. It depends on their style, their confidence, the way that their hair falls in the morning, the way that their clothes look. It’s more state of mind.

I’ve died freaking 100 times. What’s another death?

The title’s the goal, not to beat Henry Cejudo. Because I already accomplished that goal.