Quotes About Combat

I don't do isolation body building; I just do practical things that help me with the kind of things that are asked of me in action movies. You know, a lot of kick boxing, a lot of sparring.

There's a very big difference between being fit and being fight fit. Sparring is the only way to get fight fit. It's a very important part of boxing and something that I do as regularly as possible.

I will never let another man disrespect me. I don't care if we sparring or fighting.

We risk our health much more during fights and sparring than by getting infected with coronavirus.

I could be sparring mates and you're meant to hit 'em, but we'll be sparring and usually I try and stop at the face, or I don't really try and follow through, but sometimes they walk into them and I say 'oh sorry mate.' They get angry and say 'we're sparring get into it,' but I dunno, I think I'm so used to saying sorry.

There are not many heavyweight fighters to come by, so having so many sparring partners is a big luxury a lot of other fighters don't have.

I remember I did a boxing class. I remember sparring one time, and the guy smacked me right in the nose, and I was just like, 'What is this? No. No. None of that.

Sparring is not as tough as a fight.

Many MMA fighters have tried boxing before, even just sparring for a few rounds, but no boxer has done MMA rounds. There's just no way for them to do that.

When I get into the Octagon I look at it as another sparring session kind of.

You try to make your sparring sessions as realistic as possible.

My first sparring session I couldn't breathe.

When I first got into the sport it was all about who could cut the most weight, who could be the biggest on fight night. That's the same era when you're sparring 10 five minute rounds, new partner every two and a half minutes, that era of just really hard weight cutting and really hard full contact training.

Honestly, I'm destroying people in sparring, but for some reason I haven't been able to show my full potential in the UFC.

I bring in the hardest sparring partners you can imagine and I'm going through the guys.

No trooper, no special forces operative wants to sit behind a desk. We joined up to kick some doors down.

I'm a knockout specialist who comes to fight and who's exciting to watch.

Guillotine is my specialty. I love it.

Boxing is limited fighting with a specific rule set. Fighting is true, where you can do anything.

I don't prepare myself for a specific fighter. I don't choose a fight to prepare myself for another fighter.

Speed is something that, in the heavyweight division, we don't have a lot of.

It's not just fleet of foot or speed. It's about who gets caught and gets knocked out.

At one point, I didn't really consider myself as a puncher because it was more so that the speed created the knockouts. People were getting hit with punches they didn't see and they were going down.

For me, MMA is like speed chess. It's like I'm herding a person into a certain position. Say my endgame is an arm bar. I'm not gonna actually take you and put you there. What I'm going to do is convince you that it's a good idea to move in the direction I want you to go.