John Bradley-West Quotes

One had a knife. But I had a staff and was trained to use it.

I did not feel that I was designed for hand-to-hand combat.

I used to do traditional weapons training, and I wasn't bad with a sword.

I just had this feeling that, if I were to get into a fight, somehow I would have the ability to fight back, just based on playing 'Street Fighter' for so many years of my life. It's almost like I actually learned martial arts.

I have good spacial awareness, and I'm pretty comfortable with a sword.

People ask me about fighting in real life and, honestly, it wouldn't look as graceful as it does in film and TV.

I don't like broad swords. They're not much fun. A broad sword is just a big chunk of steel, and there's not much finesse in it, not much skill, I don't think anyway.

I want to be able to do more of my own stunts and really be proficient with my weapons.

Henri Hooft has made my hands and feet deadly weapons.

I can do back fists, spinning kicks. I have more options, and I can show the better striking.

I'm not a good katana user, bo staff user.

A true measure of strength is to use your hands to incapacitate somebody.

I do know how to fire a machine gun, so be warned! I'm trained!

I know that one of the distinguishing things was I looked like I could hold a gun, even though I'd never held one before and I'm physically able to do the martial arts and all that stuff.

My fighting style, if you will, is a combination of mimicking, cowboy films and boxing that I have done throughout my life.

When you work with chains or any kind of weapons, or just when you're using hand-to-hand combat, you are going to get hurt.

I trained in combat, sword fighting, horse riding... It's empowering knowing that I can a break man's nose with my elbow.

We're all given some sort of skill in life. Mine just happens to be beating up on people.

Every boy in a free country ought to be instructed in boxing, wrestling, and the use of weapons. Every young man ought to be drilled. Every householder ought, at least, to have a right to own a rifle, and should know how to make cartridges.

People don't understand fighting. They think you just go there and stand in the middle and swing for the fence. People who fight like this are idiots.

Good arms are overrated.

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

I think it's stupid to say a guy who has trained in jiu-jitsu for as long as I have is just a stand-up fighter. I have trained with some of the best black belts in the world. I am comfortable on the ground. I can fight wherever the fight goes and not be concerned.

I'm a great fighter all around the board.

Boxing is not a bodybuilding sport, plain and simple. Your body isn't going to win a fight.