Kamaru Usman Quotes

If you stay in the guard and control the hips and flatten him out, you can control him. And that was the start of ground-and-pound.

I like ground and pound; I don't know if it is like a technique or discipline. I like to be on the ground, but I don't necessarily go for submissions or anything.

Rear-naked chokes are easy? Yeah, it's easy to get, but people are getting better at defending it.

I know I have great grappling myself, and I know how I do with submissions.

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

I just really like ground and pound. The way I do it, it looks like I'm just throwing bombs, but there's some technique to it too. I make sure I'm controlling the hips, palming his face to the ground, just little things like this that make sure that the ground and pound works and I'm not letting him tie me up to where I can't throw punches.

I see the takedowns; I see the opportunities to take people down or even try to submit them or something like that. But man, I prefer to stay on my feet. That way I'm confident.

I was never an upper body wrestler. I am a shooter.

I'm a two-time world champion in jiu-jitsu. I can try to submit you.

I've knocked people out from the clinch. I've submitted people from armbars, Kimura, last-second armbars. I've knocked people out with one-hand punch.

Triangle chokes are the refuge for cowards. I would never stoop to that level of locking my legs around a man and squeezing.

When I touch Ronda, I'll always try to get the knockout. But if we go to the ground, I'll be ready for anything.

I feel like I can submit Khabib, but feel like I'm going to stop him. I don't know how it's going to happen, but I'm either going to knock him out or I'm going to submit him. I'm going to finish Khabib Nurmagomedov.

As a fan, I like watching fighters rather than boxers.

Boxing is limited fighting with a specific rule set. Fighting is true, where you can do anything.

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

I think the only thing that happened when I fought Jim Miller is that I was a just kid, he had way more experience. I was winning the fight, landing punches and trying to get 10 submissions at the same time, and Jim Miller went for one attack only, a kneebar, and got it. His experience made the difference.

You watch Conor McGregor and Floyd Mayweather fight, Floyd can just throw a few punches, or he can do a lot of defense; he can slip a few punches, let Conor get a few shots in. You can't really do that in wrestling without getting scored on or putting yourself at risk.

I think Kevin Lee is an excellent fighter who fights well on the feet, has evolved in that area, but his strongest weapon is wrestling, not jiu-jitsu.

You know when I fight, I'm going to sell out the show. Everyone wants to see someone get knocked out or tapped out.

In MMA, I believe that when a fighter knocks someone down, you have to finish him. It's not boxing, where you have a ten count; you have to finish him.

It's MMA - anything can happen. You can throw a punch from one knee, a punch from anywhere.

I train everything: I train wrestling; I train jiu-jitsu. I like to suplex people. I like ground-and-pound, but in my fight, I never have the opportunity.

Everyone's a world class ground fighter until they get a punch to the face.

A guy like Conor McGregor, one thing I really appreciated when he first got in the game and one thing that really inspired me was his love for fighting.