T.J. Dillashaw Quotes

On my way to winning the title, it was great for me, but once I won the title, it was tough for me to get fights.

I've had such a tough time making weight at 155 all the time. I'd make the weight, but I don't feel like the same kind of Sage. My power in my punches, my explosion, my speed - it just doesn't feel the same.

It was tough to make weight against Cerrone, and I passed out three times making weight for the Eddie Alvarez fight. One day you get to the limit.

I would love to fight Khabib, but there's no guarantee he's going to show up and make the weight.

I feel like I'm the only fighter who has ever missed weight in UFC, to be honest. Anyone, when we talk about weight now it's Darren Till, Darren Till. I missed weight, and people just need to get off it.

My goal is to be the undisputed Heavyweight Champion of the World.

There are 7 billion people in the world, but there's only one heavyweight champion of the world, and that's me.

I had to fight Donald Cerrone, Anthony Pettis, Gil Melendez, Rafael Dos Anjos. I had to fight these guys in order to prove myself in order to get a title shot.

You win a world title, you beat the best guys in the world, and a lot of these fans are kind of misconstrued about who are the best fighters in the world.

I want to fight for the real belt, not the interim title.

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

For me, you look at the beginning of his career, the man couldn't even make weight. That's how I found out about Henry Cejudo to begin with. 'Oh, Henry Cejudo misses weight again.' I'm like, who's this guy who keeps missing weight. When the UFC signed him, I was like, 'Great, you guys signed another guy who can't make 125.'

I had trouble making weight before in my career.

Sure, Maryse is the Divas Champion, but I find it no coincidence that she supposedly got 'hurt' the week after she stole my title.

I want to defend my belt against all the middleweights that are the biggest threats supposedly before I jump up in weight.

I came to the UFC to make history.

I've never turned down a fight in the UFC. Even when I was champ, I never turned down a fight.

Would I take Conor McGregor? No, he's a lot shorter than me. I don't think we'd be allowed fight - a heavyweight and a lightweight.

I just want to go out and compete. Plus the main thing is, at 55 I need a good amount of time to prepare just to make the weight cut. At 70 I can just take fights as they come and just compete as much as I want.

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.

Looking back in hindsight, I really stunted my growth as a fighter by constantly cutting weight all the time.

I probably should have been fighting at 155 for a long time, but I was so close to the top at 145.

I'm looking for three belts. I'm looking to do something that's never been done in this sport. I wanna go down to 155. I wanna go up to 185 and take the belt.

I used to get so stressed out before the fight, weeks out, because of how much weight I had to cut to get there.