Joel Edgerton Quotes

I'm a white middle-class public schoolboy so I'm not particularly tough. But it turns out I don't mind going in the cage. I can dig in. And it's interesting watching people spar and train. There's no anger. It's all technique and delivered with venom.

My time of martial arts was traditional.

When you are learning about a martial art, it is about respect.

At the end of the day, we're professional prizefighters - stop acting like street thugs. We're not going to fight in the streets.

It's great that mixed martial arts allows people to still be in touch with their animal side and duke it out in a cage, but I think it's important: we're still nurturing beings, and we should still have compassion for each other.

I will always go for the submission instead of hurting my opponent.

You train, you fight, you show respect at the end of it.

The essence of jiu-jitsu is philosophy.

I've gotten into two fights since I've begun studying the martial arts, and each time, I was worried I'd kill the guy. One of my teachers always told me I had good power but bad control.

I never fought in my life outside of a ring.

I have developed a Samoan mentality. You have to be a gentleman everywhere but on the field.

I am ready to fight according to the rules, and I ask for the opportunity to prove myself.

My father taught me how to fight when I was 5.

I went to karate classes where it was basically a line-up of hulking man, hulking man, small nine-year-old girl, hulking man, hulking man.

I have the same malice in my heart as far as the fight game is concerned, but outside the ring, I won't say anything a dignified man won't say.

The very essence of the male animal, from the bantam rooster to the four-star general, is to strut.

I'm a street fighter.

People don't understand fighting. They think you just go there and stand in the middle and swing for the fence. People who fight like this are idiots.

My father taught me boxing and showed me what this beautiful sport means.

Martial arts is something I studied since I was 6 years old.

No one has ever bitten me, and I've never bitten anyone on the court.

I was a judo player as a kid, and I think a lot of the concepts in judo as a kid played over. It influenced my style and has been a center point of what I do.

One thing I will say about my father is that he was very much out in the forefront talking about his beliefs about being a complete fighter and attaching a philosophy to that and teaching it.

I gotta respect our sport, my division, and the guys that are fighting in it. That's what I gotta do.

The first thing you learn in a martial art sport is discipline, and you are not allowed to use it at home.