Quotes About MMA

Thiago Santos is a guy who can take your belt from you with one punch.

It's MMA - anything can happen. You can throw a punch from one knee, a punch from anywhere.

Tecia is a tough opponent, both standing and on the ground, and has evolved a lot. She hits hard and can take a punch.

When I beat GSP it's not like I was getting my butt handed to me and I just closed my eyes and landed a punch.

I've wrestled my whole life, and when I got done with college, I went back to school to become a firefighter. I liked MMA, but I didn't really know if I wanted to get punched in the face!

My mom loved when I started training judo and jiu-jitsu because that wasn't hurting me. But when I took her for my first MMA fight, she was like, 'Baby, you're not really going to do this, right? To get punched in the face, please stop with that. Do jiu-jitsu, it's good, it won't get you hurt.'

MMA guys, we sparred a lot of them training for KSI because of the wild punches.

MMA is not just about who punches the hardest. There are a lot of things you have to know what to do. That's what I love about it.

I wanted to start in boxing, but you have to train a little harder to be a boxer. A lot of those guys can take punches. MMA, you only have to hit someone so hard to knock them out.

I throw a bunch of combos to get to my wrestling, but my punches land, too.

MMA is not jiu-jitsu. MMA is not boxing. MMA is not wrestling. It's a different kind of style of punching and wrestling and grappling on the ground.

UFC, definitely not - I do not think that is a fit for me. I am looking forward to seeing CM Punk's UFC debut, and I hope he does really well. But it is not something that I want to do.

Obviously, CM Punk is a really big draw for the UFC. He's going to bring a lot of eyes to the UFC, and the better he does, the better it'll be for all MMA fighters as far as sponsorships and stuff.

Chuck Liddell's a puppet.

I think Lesnar could probably beat Fedor, just from pure size.

I was always pushed to do that much more, and in the long run that made me more of an MMA fighter. My mom always told me that if I let it go to the judges, I'd lost. There was no way I was going to win a decision, so I had to find ways to finish the fight fast.

MMA in an individual sport, and you're just pushing yourself to be as dangerous as you can be in 15 minutes.

He puts on a great show every time he fights, so I enjoy seeing Mark Hunt fighting, and I'm glad he's still fighting; he's 44 and still fighting in a high performance, so it's good to see someone like this always putting on a great show and giving us, MMA fans, these great fights.

I like to have Ric Flair in the ring one more time in the MMA or the UFC. I'd like to beat the hell out of him.

The people who critique me are the people who don't know about the sport. They don't really know about the rules of MMA. They aren't a real fan or follower of the sport, or they're just people who like to talk.

For me, being a part of the halcyon days of Pride Fighting Championships and then watching the explosion of the UFC following the 'Ultimate Fighter,' I've been fortunate to be in the right place at the right time.

I consider my MMA training starting the day I set foot in Urijah Faber's gym.

I fought Chad Mendes to make sure I was in the top five.

I'm not going all the way; I'm going to be the best fighter that's ever fought in MMA. That's what I truly believe.