B. J. Penn

“If you decide you're going to be a fighter, you shouldn't have a problem fighting anyone.”

“I don't miss a three-month training camp. I don't miss fight week. But I do miss being the baddest man on the planet.”

“Back then, 22, I just loved the sport so much. It was such an exciting time, it was fun. It was an amazing ride.”

“I should have never fought at 145.”

“We see fighters fight their whole career and never get a title shot. It doesn't matter if they rack up 10 wins if people think they're boring. We all know how it works.”

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

“I love my life. But I love fighting more.”

“I always have fighting inside my head and heart.”

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

“Hawaiians are mellow people, but we all live on an island so we see each other all the time. So like you either got to be real nice, because once you have a problem with somebody, you're gonna see them over and over and over, and you're gonna end up fighting. That's why we fight. We're all stuck in one area. You can't get away.”

“Do people talk about Kenny Florian coming from a wealthy family and all this? I don't think they do. People say these things about me when they don't even know me.”

“I don't want to just be, 'Oh, he was good back in the day.' I want to be known as one of the best.”

“I do get pumped up about it when I go different places and people are like 'come on! You gotta fight again! You gotta fight again!' But it's a lot of work.”

“Honestly, I don't have any special techniques for Sean Sherk.”

“Jiu jitsu is a great art for self-defense. But jiu jitsu alone won't get you to a world championship in the UFC or even a winning record sometimes.”

“I don't know where that thought came from and I don't know why I had that thought, but I thought I was the best fighter on the whole planet.”

“I don't want to be the guy who said 'I could have did this, and I could have did that.' I want to be the guy to know if I could have or I couldn't do it.”

“I want to get one more world title. Three titles at three weight classes, and without a doubt 145 is my best option.”

“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 to happen. He might disappoint you, make you happy, make you cry or make you jump out of your chair, but he'll do something to you.”

“It does blow me away, though, when I see Werdum just got the belt at 37 and then you see Mark Hunt still fighting at 40. All these different things. It is amazing. I don't know. They're out there, they're doing it.”