Aljamain Sterling Quotes

When you fight MMA, there are so many things involved, so many techniques, that you just can't do everything or you'll over-train.

I give a lot of credit to my training partners and to my coaches. Both Greg Jackson and Michael Winklejohn are amazing.

I consider my MMA training starting the day I set foot in Urijah Faber's gym.

You need good coaches with a good gym that teach you the essentials, like boxing, kickboxing, wrestling, and pretty much all the stuff that you need to be successful in MMA.

In MMA, all of these coaches are doing their best.

There are a lot of sports that New Zealand does very well but MMA is a truly global sport and it's practiced in the farthest reaches of this earth.

Yes, I do Jiu Jitsu for a living.

Acting has been a passion of mine since I was young, I took acting classes through most of high school and years following while training MMA.

I think Mickey Gall's going to be really good.

I fought probably 23 or 24 times when I was over in China, in a year.

When I was scheduled to fight in Japan, and then I would come back to the United States, I would have to train, but there was nobody to train here. There was no such thing as a striker going with a grappler, or a striker going to the ground with a grappler, or a grappler standing up and fighting with a boxer.

I'm a really big UFC fan.

In Bellator, one guy that I would love to fight is Kimbo. And I'm not going to the ground. I want to fight in his area.

Conditioning is the most important thing in MMA.

We need real and dedicated fighters and champions in the UFC. It's simply the best organization in the world.

Benson Henderson is a guy that I fought before. He has two arms and two legs. He has certain patterns, mannerisms and tendencies that I know I can go out there and exploit.

I was introduced to fighting by my brother - he's a tattooer, a tough guy - and I completely fell in love with it. I was watching fights on YouTube all the time. I would go to parties to watch UFC fights.

I believe I can beat Anderson Silva, and I believe that the skills that I have is something he'd have hard time dealing with, but to compete against the guy, first and foremost, would be an honor in and of itself.

I feel like everybody's who fighting, young fighters and still learning and growing, that should be their goal - to be the UFC world champion.

I believe a training plan that involves MMA techniques is a sure way to being fit.

Wrestling has made me very mentally strong, conditioned me really well for MMA, and given me phenomenal balance.

There's a teacher at the Renzo Gracie Academy in New York named John Danaher. He's leading this whole group of fighters named the Danaher Death Squad, and they're revolutionizing how that world works. I actually went and signed up for classes mostly because, man, if there's innovation like that happening in New York, I want to be around it.

What if I could just focus on fighting? What would that be like? What would it be like to take advantage of all the resources this place has to offer? Because you're not doing it when you're cutting weight all the time.

When I came to the United States, I saw a lot of Mike Tyson. I would stay up and watch all of the Mike Tyson fights. A friend here said, 'You got to do Jiu-Jitsu. That's the thing.' I said, 'C'mon, Jiu-Jitsu would never beat Mike Tyson.' So, he showed me the Royce Gracie tape. I was so impressed with the thing.

Everything that I did to win a gold medal, I'm practically transferring it over to mixed martial arts.