Johny Hendricks Quotes

I've been at super middleweight for a long time.

The UFC want me as their champion. The welterweight division needs me as its champion. It's been static for too long. I'll win the title, defend it a couple of times, and then move up to middleweight.

There was a rumor I was walking around at 183 pounds. When I left my room to fight Conor McGregor, I was 179 pounds. That means by the time I walked in the cage, I was probably 175, 174 pounds.

I'm the world champ at 145. Why do I have to go down a division? Of course I want to make the fights nice for the fans, but I don't want to do something to make my life terrible.

I am the cash cow in the 130-pound division.

I know I belong at 170. There is not a shadow of a doubt. This is my division and there's a clearcut path to the title.

I don't want to go that route where I'm going into fights dehydrated. I used to fight at 170 pounds. I was 10-0 at 170 with eight knockouts. I'm not going to listen to somebody from the outside tell me what weight I should be fighting at.

I want to be the first champion of the 125-pound division.

I could see myself going to lightweight, but I love welterweight.

My first opportunity in the UFC was to cut to 140 pounds. This was too tough for me, but by me going through that, it opened the door for a 145-pound division.

I am ready for a title unification fight with Keith Thurman and hope to be ready before too long for a move up to light-middleweight to meet Canelo Alvarez.

I've done it in kickboxing, I've done it in boxing. After you clean out a division, you move up in weight.

To move up to heavyweight to fight me is a jump too far, in my opinion.

Leaving active duty was so I could become the best fighter in the world at my weight class.

If I could unify my second weight division, that would be huge.

I don't think I could ever make 155. I made 163 for the Olympics, and that is a super low weight for me. I'm a fairly big person, and for me to make 163 was incredibly difficult.

I'm open to fighting at 185 or 205 pounds, but I think I need to give this 185-pound run a real, honest crack. Being at this weight class has definitely made me into a different fighter.

I'm not a natural strawweight.

I'm open to any welterweight on Planet Earth.

I ain't Nate Diaz. Nate Diaz is not a welterweight. He did not do well at welterweight because he was undersized, and these dudes are real gorillas in this weight class.

If Amanda Nunes truly wants an opportunity at the 145-lb. belt, a win against any ranked contender in that division would help establish her back in a weight class she left before fighting me.

I want to fight at middleweight.

The welterweight division has really emerged as one of our most exciting weight classes.

It's always been a goal of mine to get the belt in different weight classes.

I used to be a light-heavyweight, and I'm much faster than cruiserweight. That's the reason I didn't struggle with David Haye's speed, and David Haye is much quicker than Oleksandr Usyk with one punch and much, much, more destructive with the way he hits.