Norman Mailer Quotes

I never fought in my life outside of a ring.

In the early 2000s, I was introduced to the noble art of kickboxing, it thrilled me, and I loved it. I loved the honour and the discipline, and I also loved the punching.

Boxing is a noble sport.

Boxing is a formal, ritualized creation of crisis.

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

I love the sport. I love fighting. Fighting is my life.

The most excited you'll ever see me is after knocking a guy out.

Yeah, I miss that feeling of knocking somebody clean out. There's nothing like it when you go into a fight and you just take 'em up out of there with just one punch. It's just the best feeling in the world.

There's no such thing as a lucky punch. You throw to hurt someone and if you hurt someone, job done.

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.

I know MMA isn't for everyone. It is a combat sport; some people don't like watching it, but it is entertainment for some people.

I just love boxing. Train to get there and to just fight somebody.

I love fighting. I love what I do.

The fans want to see more. They're there to see fights, they want to see more, they want to see people get put unconscious, whatever. But you can't get put in those spots.

I like to have fun in the ring, but I knock them out.

I don't need MMA, but I love fighting. Those are very different things.

I'm just a normal fellow who gets punched in the face for a living and gets punched really hard at times as well. But you know what? I'm all right at punching them back.

Yes, I started off as a bare-knuckle boxer.

I'm told that I look like a nice girl. But, yes, I do a full contact sport, and when people ask what I do, they are a bit surprised when I say, 'A martial art, a full contact sport.'

I did not enjoy the violence of boxing so much as the science of it.

Capoeira was designed to look like a dance, and it's actually an incredibly effective means of fighting. Fighting is dancing. Look at a great boxing match, and it's a dancing. That's what's great about the choreography that goes on here. It's a delicate ballet with a fist in the face.

I love boxing and it did a lot for me. But sometimes it made me think how savage human beings could be to each other. That wasn't the kind of boxer I wanted to be. My strategy was to be as scientific as I could when I fought. I didn't want to be seriously hurt, and I didn't want to do that to anybody else either.

I'm just going to punch him and do my best. If the knockout comes, it comes.

You don't play boxing. You really don't. You play golf, you play tennis, but you don't play boxing.

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