Tony Jaa Quotes

I started studying Jeet Kune Do in my early 20s.

I have a taekwondo background, but I also try to invent new moves and make sure that when I step into the Octagon, I'm a different fighter.

My fighting style, if you will, is a combination of mimicking, cowboy films and boxing that I have done throughout my life.

I respect Georges St. Pierre as a businessman and an athlete. I don't have anything against him personally. But he's not the kind of fighter I like watching.

MMA is my love.

For the last years now I've had my own academy where I train Brazilian Jujitsu and Tae boxing, Muay Thai everyday.

My martial arts background is Tae Kwon Do.

I've been involved in mixed martial arts since 1997 when I first started working for the UFC.

I fight like Bruce Lee. I train in his style of kung fu, wing chun. It's all about fighting with controlled power, so you learn to punch correctly.

With Carlson Gracie, who saw something in me, I started learning and loved mixing together the martial arts.

That Dutch style of kickboxing, that's great. That's hard. It's very intimidating to stand across from, but you know it's very rhythmic on the beat. It's just something: It looks scary, but it's nothing to be scared of.

I have wrestling. Yes, I do; my background is wrestling. I have knockout power. Just because I don't go out there and use it all, you don't have to use it all to win fights.

Everybody knows where I come from and how my jiu-jitsu is, training at Macaco Gold Team, but I also work on my striking at Chute Boxe Diego Lima, so I'm prepared on the feet and on the ground.

I'm a vale-tudo fighter.

I fought K-1 at heavyweight.

Nick Diaz is a guy who walks forward, has great boxing skills.

Dan Henderson, even when you're close and he hits you from very, very close, you can feel how heavy his hands are. His hands are pretty powerful.

Ground and pound is my thing, everyone knows that.

Style-wise, dos Santos is going to be an excellent fight for me - striker against striker. With my experience, I should have the upper hand.

It's interesting how Khabib fights but to me it's just boring, it's lazy.

When I was 14 years old, I said, 'Mom, I want to fight MMA.'

To say martial arts, or the combative form - mixed martial arts - is not an art form is incorrect.

I've always had an interest in Muay Thai fighting. I love the discipline and toughness of it, so I traveled to Thailand to study ways to incorporate it into my style.

I grew up watching 'Vale Tudo' and Marco Ruas. I fight imagining the bouts from a past generation, when everything was legal.

I just remember I used to go to each tournament to make a couple bucks. I did as a living thing; I got paid to do martial arts, so I'd go to these jiu-jitsu tournaments and make, like, $1000 every time I won the tournament.