Quotes from Johny Hendricks

I'm done. I'm retiring. I'm getting out of the MMA world.

I don't really believe in that ring rust stuff.

What I realized is that no matter what you do, you're not alone in life. Every accomplishment worth a salt, there is someone else there who played a role and took a part.

If you are out there golfing, and you hit a bad shot, anyone who knows golf will tell you that you just have to forget about it. If you don't, you'll hit another bad one and another and then another. It plays with your head. It's the same way in a fight.

My wife and kids mean more than the belt or UFC or anything else to me.

I'm not going to fight unless it's for a belt. Nothing else matters but the belt.

I didn't enjoy fighting. All I cared about was trying to beat the scale. Once that got to a point where I couldn't compete with the scale anymore, I was like, 'I'm done.'

I'll downplay myself before I compliment myself.

One thing I've learned is portion control. So, for example, if I eat pizza, instead of eating the whole thing, I eat three slices, and then I put it up.

I wrestled at 165 pounds in college. I would actually cut from 205 pounds down to 165, and it wasn't really a big deal for me. With me wrestling all of the time, my body got used to it.

I can't keep fighting and being the No. 1 contender for years.

It's great to be able to fight in Dallas, but to be the main event for a fight card in Dallas is an honor in itself.

I'll be the first one to tell you that I'm fat out of season. I love McDonald's, and I love Taco Bell. But, whenever it comes fight time, I'm always ready.

I'm not that type of guy that says, 'No, I think I deserve more.'

Fighting lives and dies; you can't fight forever.

I want the target on my back. I want everybody to come after me. That's been my goal since I started fighting.

If you do what you love, you're going work your butt off every day.

The only way to beat Georges St-Pierre, there's two ways: knock him out, or do the same thing he does to everyone else, and guess what, my wrestling is good enough to make sure I can do what he does to everyone else. I promise you that.

Check out my pictures. I'm fat. You know what I mean? But I love it. I love it. I'm a fat dude.

I have wrestling. Yes, I do; my background is wrestling. I have knockout power. Just because I don't go out there and use it all, you don't have to use it all to win fights.

I don't want to be one of those guys who fights until they're 38, 40 years old. I don't want to put my wife through that, and I don't want to put my kids through that.

The most important thing is to win fights. It doesn't matter how you do it.

In my fights, it's not if I get hit; it's when I get hit.

I've been competing my whole life. Who cares about the spotlight?