Quotes About Training

After I started training with some of the best in the world and fighting in the UFC, I started really wanting fights with guys I used to idolize and watch on TV. Guys like Tito Ortiz and Randy Couture.

How good would guys like John Cena, Randy Orton or Batista have been if they would have had 900 matches in their first three years?

That's one of my focuses, is to increase my flexibility and strength and have greater range of motion.

I'm an eight-year Green Beret, Ranger, sniper.

When I started running, a gadget was a wristwatch with a secondhand on it.

I always learn from Julio Cesar and I learn more from watching him than from talking to him. I gain a lot of experience when I train with him.

Success in sport is based on you thinking you are doing something to gain that edge, but if I wanted that little bit extra, I would go and run up sand dunes at Merthyr Mawr.

I don't want to get too much on the football side and gain weight, so I'm as fast on the field.

Being able to train nothing but boxing for a full year made me a much better boxer as I brought in professional boxers helped me make a lot of gains.

Every fighter has to go in there with a game plan.

You want to play as many games as possible, you want to stay sharp, and there is nothing like game fitness.

From a small age, we used to play a lot of school cricket: 30-35 games in a year in school cricket, then Under-16 games.

All the top players in the world play 45-50-60 games. You need that many games, even the strikers need that many games.

I have restarted my kathak practice. There had been a long gap in between so I started training with online help.

What out country is facing right now is a skills gap.

I've been working on wrestling aside from MMA. That is something that I wasn't doing in the past so I'm getting more confident in my wrestling. I learned that I didn't know a lot about takedowns, it's a really big gap and I'm catching up and learning a lot.

My parents' garden is where I learned to play - and love - football. When I was little, only 4 or 5, I'd be out there with my dad, who taught me how to pass and shoot, first with my left foot and then with my right.

Genetically I think I'm more equipped for long distances than high-intensity sprints.

In Germany, my focus was mainly on dribbling.

I had classical training at London's Royal Ballet School, and my first job was with the Semperoper Dresden ballet company in Germany.

Rear-naked chokes are easy? Yeah, it's easy to get, but people are getting better at defending it.

I wouldn't say I'm the best MMA fighter but I'm working on it every day and I'm getting better and better.

I'm just really just continuing to work on back-to-the-basket stuff and working on getting better from the foul line.

I need more fights to get better as a fighter. And I will keep getting better.