B. J. Penn

This is my wife. MMA is my wife. For life.

— B. J. Penn

I don't want any freebie fights.

— B. J. Penn

I don't want to be a shell of my former self.

— B. J. Penn

I love my life. But I love fighting more.

— B. J. Penn

I'm a fan of everybody, I respect everyone.

— B. J. Penn

I just love the fighting.

— B. J. Penn

I got a wonderful life back in Hawaii.

— B. J. Penn

Fighting is still not a sport for me.

— B. J. Penn

I have a good team around me and I don't feel anything is anywhere near out of my league.

— B. J. Penn

Fighting is my whole life, the UFC is my whole life.

— B. J. Penn

My lasting legacy now is just going to be in highlight reels.

— B. J. Penn

It doesn't do me any good to train for three months, and I don't get to fight.

— B. J. Penn

Keith Kizer doesn't want to look anyone in the eye.

— B. J. Penn

I'm not a great athlete that can play any sport. But one thing I could always do is... fight back.

— B. J. Penn

The UFC is martial arts and it's all about technique.

— B. J. Penn

I guess being a competitor, you always have that itch. But what it is is... it's tough.

— B. J. Penn

Fighting, to me, has always been something different than what everybody's else opinion is. I've never believed what everybody else has.

— B. J. Penn

The last thing I'm trying to do is trying to look to go out into a fight. Ask anybody who knows me,…

— B. J. Penn

This is a fight. This isn't putting a ball in a hole. This has always been a fight for me, and I…

— B. J. Penn

Maybe if I had made the move in my early 20s it would have been different. But I did not feel good…

— B. J. Penn

I know there are a lot of others who are willing to take shortcuts for the sake of money, but when I…

— B. J. Penn

For me Keith Kizer can't be trusted, the head of the Athletic Commission can't be trusted. I never want to fight under…

— B. J. Penn

I've always thought that being in the UFC is what the name suggests: Ultimate Fighting Championship. As time went on, people started…

— B. J. Penn

Anybody they ever offer me in fighting, I'll probably never be surprised, unless it's the guy's first fight in the UFC.

— B. J. Penn

Hawaiians are mellow people, but we all live on an island so we see each other all the time. So like you…

— B. J. Penn

You look at somebody like Frankie Edgar and you think, 'oh, that little guy,' this and that. But these guys, they want…

— B. J. Penn

Mixed martial arts, UFC, or what have you, I don't think it has anything to do with rankings. It doesn't have to…

— B. J. Penn

It isn't always the funnest feeling, sparring three days a week, getting punched in the face at 38 years old, it might…

— B. J. Penn

There's just something about BJ Penn that gets people amped up. You don't know what's going to happen but something is going…

— B. J. Penn

It does blow me away, though, when I see Werdum just got the belt at 37 and then you see Mark Hunt…

— B. J. Penn

Back when we won the 170-pound title, I knew we were going to go back and get the 155-pound title but the…

— B. J. Penn

Some guys are athletes and some guys are fighters. But, whether I look down on that or not, they're just out there…

— B. J. Penn

I always have fighting inside my head and heart.

— B. J. Penn

Being the champ is fake, all of that is all fake.

— B. J. Penn

I should have never fought at 145.

— B. J. Penn

I never even thought I would be in the UFC.

— B. J. Penn

I want to leave a mark in this sport.

— B. J. Penn

I have my own morals I live by.

— B. J. Penn

Dennis Siver, he's a tough guy.

— B. J. Penn

I wish I owned the UFC, you know?

— B. J. Penn