Quotes About Training

From the beginning, when my brother Vadim first took me to the boxing gym at 10, I was able to punch hard, and the coach always put me with older boys because of that.

There used to be an old thing where every team had a heavy bag in their locker room for people to punch, but again, it was more about conditioning because if you hit a heavy bag for a minute, it feels like your arms are about to fall off.

I spent the whole first year of my career just on my legs. If you have good legs under you, then you can punch. Anybody can stand and throw their hands and look like an idiot. If you actually want to learn how to punch, you have to work on being balanced on your legs and feeling your legs under you. Feel the ground.

I can punch, I'm heavy-handed, and I can box.

I really don't punch with my left hand anyways.

I like training hard. I like to punch the face. I like getting 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.'

I land a higher percentage of punches than any boxer in boxing.

You have got to not get hit. You could be the best puncher in the world, but if you're going to keep constantly taking punches you're going to lose your heart. Once you learn how to miss the punches and then you start to punch them, you become an all-around fighter.

This is boxing and it's all about putting your punches together perfectly.

My training in martial arts was kind of a crash course in how to look like a black belt. I know the moves of a black belt - my kicks, and my stretches, and my punches and all that.

The power from the punches come from your legs.

I don't overswing any more. I can throw a punch and be right in position to punch again. No more 'Hail Mary' punches, where it took me five minutes to get back in position.

I've been boxing since I was eight, and that's a long time to take punches day after day.

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.

My punches are crisp, powerful, and sharp.

The physique will show in the punches.

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.

Taking punches to the face at six in the morning, it's funny to hear that but, like, I'm grateful that I'm capable to do that.

I hold my breath with my punches in the fight and you know how that catches up with you.

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

You can improve your punching power, but only to an extent. If you can punch hard, then it's just god-given, that's just nature, not nurture and there's not much you can do to develop punching power.

Some of my fights in PRIDE, I felt tired. I would train on the punching bag and feel great but then get tired in my fights.