Brian Ortega Quotes

I needed something to challenge myself a little more. I found fighting, and it completely fit my personality.

As far as fighting, I just love to fight and enjoy my life more because of that. I think that it is pretty apparent to those who know me that I do this because of the love. I am not looking to get famous or acquire a bunch of cash. I am following my passion, and that's what is about for me.

Some people fight and stuff outside the cage, but I never liked that sort of thing. I just always wanted to do martial arts and I finally did it at 22 years old, so later in life, but it's all good.

Fighting is a very independent thing, and it's not a team sport, and it's not the NFL, you know, because we don't have to look the same.

I love acting because it's empowering. It empowers me.

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

I've had great opportunities to show different sides of myself, but the challenge will always be getting either people to let you do it or finding the right things to do in order to do it.

I love every type of martial arts, but with Muay Thai in general, I want to see it being brought to the public more. There is no movie that has Muay Thai incorporated into it, so I want to bring that to the public.

I'm super athletic and I love to work out, and obviously I need to workout for my industry as well, but I love learning something and developing that skill and feeling strong. Girls who can kick butt are hot.

There is a difference between a fighter and a martial artist. A fighter is training for a purpose: He has a fight. I'm a martial artist. I don't train for a fight. I train for myself. I'm training all the time. My goal is perfection. But I will never reach perfection.

People say, what is she thinking? I'm thinking: fun; cash; travel.

I love doing the fight stuff. It's the best.

I like to be a lot of different things at once and dress different ways and I change my hair all the time, so being an actor lets me live out the fantasy of living out 100,000 different lifetimes in one, without all of the repercussions.

The MMA stuff has been really good, I'm enjoying that. To be able to work with Jay Glazer, he's a total meathead, he loves all that stuff. I hit him as hard as I can and he's like 'Yeah!' It's been fun for me to release that anger without putting pads on.

There's only one reason I would do the kickboxing thing, and that's for myself. I've been doing it as an avid student on-and-off for 10 years, and it's something I really enjoy.

I just never want to repeat myself. I also don't want to be bored in life. The great luxury of being an actor is you get to be different people, and I would hate to be repetitive.

Ali could only fight a couple of ways. I can fight five or six different ways.

I enjoy fighting. It's one of my favorite things to do in the world, so I'm just enjoying every minute of it.

I'm not a matchmaker; I don't run the UFC - I'm a fighter. So I'll stick to doing what I do best: training and punching people.

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

MMA was love at fight sight. I felt like I was born to do it.

I've been learning martial arts - nothing specific, as then it becomes one-sided - but basic exercises.

It's been great to travel because I really enjoyed being 'Elektra', so it's not a problem talking about it.

I love fighting. I love what I do.

I like to train and then step in the cage and do my job. This is the thing that I like to do.