Bill Goldberg Quotes

Wrestlers tend to do good in MMA because they tend to be just some tough guys. It's not a karate situation where they grew up their whole life punching the air; in a wrestling situation, you grab a hold of another human being every day.

Pro wrestling has absolutely helped my fighting.

This is mixed martial arts, so you have to be good at everything.

There's no offseason in this business. I'm just going to make sure I train my butt off in and out of the ring.

I come from a wrestling background but don't really use it in most of my fights.

Wrestling is a very serious subject for me.

Yeah, I get to fight in 'Eclipse.' My trainer is teaching me MMA right now. So. Cool.

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

My whole career, I've been fighting wrestlers. If you look back, all of my fights have been against wrestlers.

MMA in my opinion is the hardest sport in the world, no doubt.

You can have the best college wrestling in the world, but you can have terrible MMA wrestling.

My view on wrestling in MMA is changed a lot since I started really doing it.

I'd like to wrestle for as long as I can.

I want to be eventually be the best wrestler out there, be the best grappler out there, along with being the best striker - be all of them at one time.

People only see two hours of a tennis match where you're fighting and running and sometimes getting upset. There's a lot more than those two hours. Going out there and playing is actually the easy part.

I've really valued each area of MMA.

But I got into MMA for the sport. I love fighting.

One of the reasons I started pursuing MMA was for all the similarities to pro wrestling that it has.

When I joined the WWE, Dave 'Fit' Finley was our first agent that we worked with all the time and he brought in another form of aggression in me.

My goal is to go out there and dominate. We all know if I'm in a position and I see my opponent hurt by landing good striking, I'm going to try to get him out of there. If I'm in the top position or in the position to finish by submission, I'm going to look for that. I don't feel the need to prove the haters wrong.

Train hard, get good coaching, and don't forget that its mixed martial arts. Don't get tied into one style of fighting, and focus on multiple disciplines.

I actually think that wrestling is much harder than MMA, to be honest.

I started training for MMA when I was 18 years old. My jujitsu coach told me, 'Amanda, you should try MMA.' Since that moment, I got in love with this sport and haven't stopped.

When you fight in the UFC and train with the guys that I train with, you learn that there is always still a lot of work to do.

I like all styles of MMA, my first classes in the sport were BJJ but I prefer to stand up.