Quotes from Joseph Benavidez

When you appreciate something and you're grateful for it - like going in to work everyday or just your partner or your job - you just do it that much better because you're lucky that you're doing it.

I'm in a small percentage of people that get to do what they love to do for a living. I'm lucky.

Persevering is a fight. That's what a fight is. You face something, you persevere through it, you meet it head on.

Everything happens just like it's supposed to happen; you've just got to roll with it and keep moving forward.

To me, the best part about winning the belt is hugging my wife after.

My wife... so grateful for that. Nothing can be bad - going home and having someone making you feel like the best every day.

I remember this one time I had a dream about me writing a screenplay, and when I woke up, you know those dreams that feel so real, but I woke up and I was like, 'Oh my god I have this amazing screenplay I need to write down as soon as I wake up' and then I woke up and I was like what the heck was I dreaming of?

When you go in there and fight, you pretty much relinquish and give up the right to make any excuses about something.

For me... I feel like gratitude has really helped me to keep perspective on everything. The gratitude of doing what I get to do. The gratitude for my everyday life. The gratitude for simple things.

This sport is crazy, it moves along and we all have a short memory. No one realizes when fighters are out. They just remember their last fight and how they look now.