Quotes About Combat

I was a striker before a wrestler. I've always wanted to knock people out.

I already knew a lot about the ground aspects of MMA, being a wrestler, but there was so much more. There was kicking, punching, and other things I wish I could have done as a wrestler. It really stoked my interest.

I'll use wrestling if I need to in fights, but maybe I'll fight another wrestler, and you'll find out how good my striking is.

A good wrestler, with good jiu jitsu and great boxing, can beat Fedor.

I'm a catch wrestler, so I used catch wrestling in Mixed Martial Arts.

OK, if he's a grappler, good for me, I know what to do. If he's a kickboxer, I gotta get in a clinch and move a certain way. If he's a karate man, he moves a different way, but I'm still going to have to clinch. So, a sumo wrestler, I have to clinch. It's just, how I get there, how I move it.

I'm a great defensive wrestler.

I know Cormier is a wrestler so you really got to get them hips down on him so I've been working them hips really good.

The average MMA guys have a boxer's stance which makes it easier for a wrestler when they try and take you down. I tend to stand sideways and that gives them only one leg to shoot for, it tends to make it more difficult to try and take me down.

I remember watching Anderson Silva fight Dan Henderson at UFC 82. I had never really watched MMA, but I looked up to Dan Henderson. He was a wrestler, like me, but also a tough, powerful mixed martial artist.

For a wrestler, I think it is much better to fight in the ring than in the cage. The cage has more advantage for the stand up fighter.

If you look at Mayweather's fights he often likes to get into the clinch, but what is a boxer in a clinch against a wrestler, an MMA fighter?

You can call Roy Nelson a wrestler, but he's never fought a dynamic, explosive wrestler.

I'm a wrestler, a very polished wrestler and some of my best attributes in wrestling are my scrambling ability and my clinch.

I was never an upper body wrestler. I am a shooter.

I don't classify myself as a wrestler, I'm a grappler.

I've always been a defensive wrestler, but when I go in there in the fights, I get so caught up in trying to knock people's heads off that wrestling goes out the window when you're throwing punches and kicks and stuff.

I do MMA, but I feel like a pro wrestler at heart. That's why I fight the way I fight in MMA. That's why I slam people and stuff around.

I came into this game a wrestler and that was pretty much it. I was tough, I could take a guy down and beat him up. I threw a good overhand right.

This sport started with the question, Who would win, a karate guy or a boxer? A judo guy or a wrestler? That was the original draw behind the sport. That's what caught everybody's attention.

If a guy's a very good wrestler or a really good boxer or has a really good high kick, you prepare for that. It's the same when you're going to fight someone who talks a lot of crap.

I beat St. Pierre, who's a physical specimen, a better wrestler, and supposedly a better striker. People thought I was gonna get killed. But I have experience in wars with the best guys in the world. I knew at the very least he'd be in the hospital with me.

My whole career, I've been fighting wrestlers. If you look back, all of my fights have been against wrestlers.

Boxers box to get ready to fight; wrestlers wrestle. We have so much we have to do to get ready, but fighting is one of them.