Quotes About Combat

I'm a huge UFC fan. I train. I do jiu-jitsu, taekwondo.

I trained in combat, sword fighting, horse riding... It's empowering knowing that I can a break man's nose with my elbow.

If you trained jiu-jitsu his whole life, why would you trade punches on fight night against a striker?

I trained in kick-boxing and Muay Thai.

Right after 9/11 there was a magazine with a cover of kids, mostly 12-14 year-olds, who were being trained for military combat. I thought that this had just gone too far.

The U.S. Armed Forces are the best trained, best equipped fighting forces in the world.

When I went through Marine boot camp in Paris Island, South Carolina, we actually did have bayonets that we trained with.

When you're trained for battle, the idea is that it will be man against man.

We trained like we fight.

I've trained hundreds of hundreds of rounds of sparring at American Top Team.

I trained karate in 2001 to fight Heath Herring.

People see a lot of my standup, and that's what I'm known for since I was trained in karate and kickboxing, but I also have ground game.

I've trained boxing in the past to learn the distance, trained wrestling to understand how he would take me down, but I won't get there to fight my opponent's game.

My gun trainer on the first 'G.I. Joe' gave me about a week of commando training, so I got to shoot every single machine gun and hand gun there was.

I'm convinced my cockroaches have military training, I set off a roach bomb - they diffused it.

When learning boxing and martial arts, there wasn't any fakery in my training. When teaching you the basics of fighting, even though it's faked for the camera, they teach you to do it for real.

I'm always training to fight the best fighters in the world, and if the UFC wants me to fight Georges St-Pierre, then I will fight him.

It would be hard to throw a punch to someone who wasn't a boxer, who wasn't in the ring, and who didn't have on a pair of boxing gloves and who hadn't been training.

I have stage combat training from college, which is drastically different than fighting for the screen, but I do enjoy that kind of stuff.

Cain Velasquez attacks more, and throws more punches and kicks. It's hard to fight against him. He's very athletic, you can see that from his fights with 'Cigano,' but Werdum trains hard and is a great fighter.

Nobody trains 'eye poke defense.'

MMA is the most dangerous sport there is for a transgender, with all the body contact, I know that.

The two don't necessarily translate, especially if you're a prize fighter: you've fought all your life, you've fought all these fights, and now you're trying to do a movie. You see that happen a lot - a lot of professional fighters don't necessarily make it so well into the movie world.

My background in gymnastics, martial arts, and dancing has translated very well in the ring.