Combat Sport Quotes

MMA is a sport. We go out here and we do battle. Everybody has family, friends, they train really hard.

I've always boxed, I always taught boxing.

Eighteen years doing this, my friend. Eighteen years - combat sport. I think you will not find this in history, I believe.

I love MMA. I love the sport of it.

I was a really good youth boxer, and I enjoyed the sport very much. Once I actually started to play the trumpet, it is very similar to boxing. Most of the great trumpet players boxed: Miles Davis was a boxer, Wallace Roney is a boxer, Terrence Blanchard is a boxer. In a boxing ring, no one can help you. It's just you and the other guy, and your job is to get him out of there, to outscore him in the best sense of it. When you learn to box, the first thing they teach you is to protect yourself at all times, and some people also learn that they like being hit.

I know MMA isn't for everyone. It is a combat sport; some people don't like watching it, but it is entertainment for some people.

I've done taekwondo striking my entire life.

Boxing has become America's tragic theater.

My martial arts background is Tae Kwon Do.

Wrestling is a small, intimate sport.

In MMA, it's a sport, but it's entertainment, too.

Unlike any other sport, the objective in boxing is chillingly simple: One man purposefully endeavors to inflict bodily harm on another man.

My objective was to hurt the other fighters. I wanted to hurt them. I wanted to be merciless. Man, I was a wild thing. It's kind of a drug, a rush.

Boxing is not like any other sport, you have to weigh up the risk and reward. Things like playing football, tennis, you might be three sets to love down, but boxing you're going to the hospital on a stretcher and you know potentially you are going to get an injury you can't walk away from.

I am a boxing fan.

Boxing is fascinating. It's good for the soul to be made to feel clumsy. I swank around during the week thinking I'm a big cheese, but you don't feel like that when you're in the ring with a chap who knows what he's doing. It's ritual humiliation. I'm going to be slugged about and probably killed, but I love it and have to do something to keep fit.

Boxing has been in my blood since I can remember. It comes naturally to me, and I've enjoyed it ever since I started, at the age of six.

I'm a black belt in tae kwon do.

You do take a beating in professional wrestling. But I love it.

The reality is this: Fighting isn't a team sport; it's an individual's sport.

I wouldn't recommend [boxing] to any child of mine. I would rather he played golf or something.

People see it [boxing] as a physical contact sport, but it's not. It's really a spiritual one of will against will. Who wants it the most? How much is he willing to take - and dish out - to get it? It's like fighting is 10 percent physical and 90 percent emotional.

He invented Kung Fu when translated to English means method by which short, bald guys can kick the bejeezus out of you.

Boxing is a formal, ritualized creation of crisis.

There's a truth to the violence of boxing. You have a very real threat, an opponent.