Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Joseph Benavidez - Page 2

I've been lucky. I've been in that top two or three for 11 years at two weight classes. It's been a crazy journey. It's been awesome.

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

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.

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.

The destination is the belt, but you never arrive at just the belt. You're always on the way to something else. You never truly arrive anywhere. But winning the belt, it's a nice pit stop.

I will always believe in the team aspect.

I'm all about respect and I never get outside myself as far as calling people out.

That was always the top martial artist - the Brazilian jiu jitsu black belt. Once I started beating them, I knew I had what it takes to form a new martial art. That's when I came up with Joe Jitsu, my namesake, so my legacy lives forever through the martial arts.

I've always believed I was going to win a world title.

All we have is our talent. That's what's great about the division, you can see things that 125-pound guys can do that some other guys can't. All we have is our skill.

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.

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.

Fighting was the only way I felt self-worth, with people thinking I was the best.

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.

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

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

When you're fighting the best, best guys in the world, there's no glaring weaknesses. There's X-factors and there's small openings that you have to prepare for better and that's really it.

I'm in this sport for a long time and I'm going to continue to fight with my whole heart and put on a show.

It would mean a lot, but it's weird, because what's the title? It's an extra line on your Wikipedia page and a medal that says you won on that particular night. It obviously symbolizes more than that, but those are the things people think about.

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

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

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.

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

For me... I feel like gratitude has really helped me to keep perspective on everything. The gratitude of doing what I get to do. The gratitude for my everyday life. The gratitude for simple things.

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.

I just need to remember even if I don't get the title, I have an awesome life and an awesome family and friends.

I lost and I didn't die. I still had my health, family and people who loved me.

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

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.

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.

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.

I'm going to be world champion and have a belt, and people will correctly be able to say I was the best instead of I was very good.

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

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.

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

I've realized that I can't control what the hell everyone else is gonna do. People are crazy. People want different things.

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.

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.