100 Quotes by 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.

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.

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.

Fighting is hard, fighting is tough. You get beat up in the body. It's hard; it takes a toll on your body.

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.

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.

I like to think that I'm a pretty intelligent fighter and haven't underestimated any of my opponents.

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.

People a lot of times have expectations for combinations, if you can throw something that they don't expect or throw something in a way that they don't expect it, it can be pretty successful.