David Lyons Quotes

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

I fought three opponents in one night two or three times, but never five rounds.

When I come in throwing shots from different angles and with both hands, I've been knocking people clean out.

The slender, swift Bruce Lee was the Fred Astaire of martial arts, and many of the fights that could be merely brutal come across as lightning-fast choreography.

I did not enjoy the violence of boxing so much as the science of it.

I'd love to do live-action superheroes. And you know, I boxed for several years. I have some martial arts experience.

I've been to fights, and I've seen them on television, but no, I would not call myself a fan of the sport, that particular sport, no.

In the early 2000s, I was introduced to the noble art of kickboxing, it thrilled me, and I loved it. I loved the honour and the discipline, and I also loved the punching.

I'm a huge boxing fan. I love the strategy and the combat.

Boxing is really an art form. It might just look like two people beating each other up, but when you look closer, it's actually quite beautiful and interesting.

Boxing, in the most general terms, is a poor man's sport. All you have is your hands to make a living.

I'd say I just fell in love with trying to knock people out really quick instead of letting the fight develop.

I say the sweet science is to hit and not get hit.

Go back and watch my old footage, man. Go back and watch my old fights. I knocked people out at 170 pounds.

I fought K-1 at heavyweight.

There's no such thing as a lucky punch. You throw to hurt someone and if you hurt someone, job done.

Now I am training with sparring partners who are nice people, sure, but not my friends. These are sparring partners who want to knock me out in sparring. In the Croatian media, they said it was 'life and death' sparring - it was not quite life and death, but it was all-out fighting, very hard.

Ground and pound is my thing, everyone knows that.

I had no idea if I could fight when I first started. My first four amateur fights, I had never even been punched in the face or trained of any kind.

I'm also a martial-arts practitioner, so it was an easy transition to go do 'Street Fighter,' which is action-packed and let me showcase my acting and martial-arts capabilities.

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

I break people's faces. I break their arms. I break their legs. That's a part of the sport. That's my job. That's the job of the opponent who's trying to do the same thing to me.

Cruz is a little too athletic for Faber, Faber is flat-footed.

I'm an overall sound fighter, a boxer-puncher.

I want everybody on Fox to see my fighting style, to really become a fan of the sport.