Bruce Lee Quotes

One of the things I always tell people is that when it comes to fighting and fight week, then I'm there for one purpose, and that's to fight and get the hell out of dodge.

There are no pure styles of karate. Purity comes only when pure knuckles meet pure flesh, no matter who delivers or receives.

I thought boxing was stupid.

I never fought in my life outside of a ring.

When I get finished with fighting, I hope they ask the same questions. It's not my purpose to answer them. Boxing is the art of self-defense. I knock 'em out the first chance I get.

You put me in there with anybody at '35 or '45, I get on your back, I take you down, it's going to be a long night and it's a dangerous situation to be in.

This is a man's sport. I fight.

I love fighting. I don't know what it is in me, whether it's a sickness or a gene, but I just love standing in front of another fighter and going for it: they can hurt me, and I can hurt them.

I got a short - I got a temper. I fight in a cage for a living. There's a reason people like us are wired slightly different.

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.

My job is to hit somebody until the referee pulls me off.

I'm always supportive of my brothers who have the guts to step in the cage. Pro wrestling is dangerous but it takes a special kind of courage to lock yourself in a cage that wants to do you harm.

I like fighting, but I hate hurting people.

They say actually every time I enter the ring, in a way, I'm going to the war. They say to me daily, you are a prized fighter, what's the difference? And I like to say to those critics of the press and the others that there is one hell of a lot of difference in fighting in a ring and going to war in Vietnam.

I sometimes just don't like to see the Ultimate Fighting. I just find it, as a martial artist, I just find it too violent.

I don't like any sport except boxing and bull fighting.

I just want to do what I do best, and that's fight. I love it.

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.

Boxing brings out my aggressive instinct, not necessarily a killer instinct.

Getting hit motivates me. It makes me punish the guy more. A fighter takes a punch, hits back with three punches.

Mother's father and brothers all took great interest in pugilism, and they knew the game well from much practice of their own. They were never so much delighted as when I visited them with a black eye or a bloody nose, at which time they would be at the trouble to give cunning points as to how to meet an opponent according to his weight and height.

I definitely want to fight after I'm done wrestling.

The fight game has never been just about winning.

When you're fighting a guy like DC, he's just coming in and pushes you. You have to push him back.

I like to make people quit. Whether it's because I'm striking them or submitting them, I just want to make them quit. In the war of wills, that's the win.