Champion Quote by Benson Henderson

I was never planning on just making the UFC, I was always planning to be champion.

— Alexander Volkanovski

I always felt like my career, as far as professional MMA, would start and finish with the UFC.

— Dan Hardy

When I started fighting I've always thought about being a UFC champion.

— Jimi Manuwa

I didn't get into MMA because I wanted to be UFC champion. That wasn't my motivation.

— Shayna Baszler

I will do whatever the UFC tells me to do, but there's not a doubt in my mind that I can be champion.

— Eddie Alvarez

As the UFC was getting bigger and bigger, I realized it was a potential career there, and that's what I did.

— Michael Bisping

I feel I have the necessary skills to compete with the best, I wouldn't have even aimed for the UFC if I didn't think…

— Artem Lobov

Even though I didn't do as well in the UFC as the rest of my career, I feel like I did everything that I…

— Mirko Cro Cop

When I got into the sport and wrote down my goals, it was never to be a UFC main event or to be a…

— Joseph Benavidez

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

— Joseph Benavidez

I've let go of the dream of becoming a UFC champion that I held in my heart my whole life.

— Diego Sanchez

I never even thought I would be in the UFC.

— B. J. Penn