T.J. Dillashaw Quotes

You go out there and say I fight for the UFC, people know exactly what that is.

For me, being a part of the halcyon days of Pride Fighting Championships and then watching the explosion of the UFC following the 'Ultimate Fighter,' I've been fortunate to be in the right place at the right time.

People can doubt me, and they'll do that forever, but show me a better, cleaner fighter in the UFC or in general.

This is the UFC. UFC has the best fighters in the world. That's it.

Even in my first year in the UFC I fought five times in the year.

The first time I saw a commercial for my fight was UFC 210.

If you want to prove your worth and prove you're one of the best in the world, you need to be fighting in the UFC.

I was free on the market, and I wanted to go to the UFC, the only global organization.

I want to fight a UFC fighter.

The UFC has been so good to me over the years, and it is hard to leave this company and this sport.

I've never said no to any fight the UFC has asked of me.

UFC has done a fantastic job of establishing the biggest leading brand in mixed martial arts. Years ago, many people didn't know what MMA was nor understand the sport.

Anderson Silva, Georges Saint-Pierre, and Rodrigo Nogueira are some of the top fighters in the UFC among many other great fighters. The UFC has many of the toughest fighters around.

Any fighter fighting in the UFC would take the opportunity to take a fight against a YouTuber and stand to make several million dollars.

I've been training for Ronda Rousey since my first fight in the UFC.

I started doing martial arts since I was 12, and then I went into wrestling in college. After I met John Hackleman, I started getting really serious about it, and after a few amateur fights, I got an invite to the UFC and have been in love with it ever since.

Bellator offered me a job. UFC never offered me an opportunity to fight. There's no question that UFC is the top. It's a machine. A lot of people, including myself, have helped build the UFC to where it is today.

It is amazing to have the UFC to come here to Perth... it is great for Australian Mixed Martial Arts and great for the sport, and it is going to be great for Perth to have such a world-wide event, through pay-per-view, hosted here.

We need real and dedicated fighters and champions in the UFC. It's simply the best organization in the world.

I was satisfied with having a couple of fights a year, to enjoy them and have them be part of my training routine. When the UFC came around, it seemed like it fell in my lap. It was like I got so good at my hobby, and now I'm living all these people's dreams who had been working for so many years.

Kids wake up in the morning and say, 'I want to be a UFC fighter one day,' just like they do in baseball.

I respect Conor McGregor a lot because this man changed everything in the UFC.

For me, it was just a huge honor to fight in the UFC.

I saw my first UFC fight when I was 15 and figured, 'This is what I want to do when I grow up.'

It's not like I was saying, 'Oh, I want to make it to the UFC one day,' because the sport wasn't big enough then that a guy could have this as his job.