Alistair Overeem Quotes

I love the idea of going to work and having to fight and learn a new skill set, whether it's muay Thai or Kali or Filipino stick fighting. To me, it's like college for life.

All my skill sets have grown; my experience in the Octagon has grown. I honestly just think I'm getting better with every fight.

I've really taken a lot of time to work on my Karate, worked on my kickboxing, and Muay Thai.

When I train for a fight, you roll around, you catch someone in a move, you let them go. You just let go and keep going.

Nobody wants to be trapped inside that cage me. They don't want to be cut by my elbows, they don't want to get hit by any of my kicks and they don't want their conditioning checked by me.

I've always been told that if you spar with another man, you try and emulate what a real fight is going to be like. So you go hard. It's how I've always been.

I'm working relentlessly at becoming a better fighter than I was yesterday. I think I've really shown that I'm a more evolved fighter these days than I've ever been.

I've got to become 'The ultimate Ultimate Fighter.'

Boxing is not a bodybuilding sport, plain and simple. Your body isn't going to win a fight.

It's MMA. I'm a complete MMA fighter. I expect everything. I'm ready for all of it.

I train jiu-jitsu and judo with the best guys there is, and the best guys for ground and pound.

Machida Karate is for real combat. Other karate may be not for real combat because there are many rules for the competition, and a lot of the rules aren't good for real combat - you can't do some takedowns, you can't finish the fight on the ground. Machida Karate is very different.

I've fought tactical fights in a gym, but never in a fight before.

I think, as a fighter, I kept improving. My movements improved, my accuracy improved.

I'm not just a wrestler anymore. I'm a very well-rounded fighter.

I'm a completely evolved fighter.

You can hit the bags, the pads, and you can run and do your fitness and your weights as much as you want, but if you don't spar you just don't have that true experience, that true knowledge of how to beat a man in one-on-one combat.

I need to improve my striking and my wrestling, but I always be best at jiu-jitsu.

I trained in kick-boxing and Muay Thai.

Jiu-Jitsu has been one of the most valuable tools I've ever had in my life.

Use karate, judo, aikido, or any style to build your counter-offensive. It will be interesting!

I think my fighting skills have certainly been improved by working with Peter Jackson.

I studied Jeet Kune Do and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. On element of Jeet Kune Do is that I had several of years of practice with the kali stick - a stick with a size and length similar to a baseball bat.

I learnt a blend of different martial arts - not in great depth, obviously - but various moves such as kicks, blocks and punches. It was all quite fun.

I'm a little greedy for action scenes. I'm a martial artist, and any time I get to show off some of that art is great.