Mickie James Quotes

I've trained with real, world-class wrestlers.

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

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.

I wrestled in high school, so I actually have a bit of a base in grappling.

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.

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

I think martial arts, in general, shaped my wrestling style. I think I grew up as a martial artist as a kid.

I was a wrestler and now I teach jiu-jitsu, but they're obviously different in many ways. However, they do kind of translate.

I'm really considering getting into amateur wrestling and getting into more tournaments. I'm looking into going to do some Jiu-Jitsu tournaments. I'm looking into everything.

I feel like my wrestling and jiu-jitsu is so underrated.

Pro wrestling has absolutely helped my fighting.

Haryana is one state that loves combat sports. In fact, majority of the kids who learn wrestling from me are from Haryana.

Even while modeling, I was still practicing kung fu and boxing as sports.

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

I didn't go to normal children school. I went to sports school when I was 8. So I studied martial arts.

I do mixed martial arts, mainly kickboxing.

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 go to gyms quite a bit, martial arts gyms, MMA gyms. I try to train with the best people, with who's who in the martial arts, just to keep myself sharp.

I do a lot of mixed martial arts - it's like unlimited fighting. I do Brazilian jujutsu, beach volleyball. I don't like my routine to get stale, so I also lift kettle bells and push cars.

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

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

I've been boxing since I was 7 years old.

I don't take a guy down just to hold him, I look for damage and submissions.

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