Matt Riddle Quotes

Wrestling has always been a dominating force in UFC.

I feel like I started with wrestling, and a love of pro wrestling, that lead me to MMA and the UFC. And now it's come full circle back to pro wrestling.

It's interesting because my Mixed Martial Arts upbringing is less Brazilian jiu-jitsu, which is the traditional thing that people study.

I used to wrestle when I was younger. It was soccer, wrestling, rugby league and now MMA.

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.

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

I have never been in a cage fighting UFC. It would be nice to try.

I'm not Ken Shamrock the MMA World Champion No Holds Barred fighter. I'm Ken Shamrock, The World's Most Dangerous Man. Professional wrestling and MMA champion.

I watched the UFC way back in the day, before there were time limits. I always knew it's what I wanted to do some day.

All combat sports are connected.

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.

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

Mixed martial arts is great, and it's here to stay.

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

I pretty much focus on all the main styles out there, karate, wrestling, boxing, jiujitsu, just pretty much anything within MMA.

I'm a catch wrestler, so I used catch wrestling in Mixed Martial Arts.

In my teenage years, I started kickboxing, then did a little boxing. When the UFC and MMA exploded in the early 2000s in the U.S.A. and Japan, I saw a way to make money and a career.

I do practice martial arts, more as a recreational thing, but a lot of my friends have been heavyweight champions the in mixed martial arts world.

People say that I'm a boxer. I actually started with kick boxing, and then I moved onto boxing, and then I moved onto grappling.

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

I've been involved in mixed martial arts since 1997 when I first started working for the UFC.

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

I like fighting, man. I didn't get into this sport not to fight. I enjoy fighting; I actually enjoy getting in the cage.

I've been doing everything people like to see: knock people out, and submissions, and go in there to fight.

Georges St-Pierre is a good fighter who is proving his place in MMA with every fight.