Michael Steger Quotes

I'm hooked on martial arts.

I'm very, very, very interested in martial arts.

I didn't know anything about martial arts. I'm a big fan, but I never practiced martial arts.

I've been taking martial arts for a long time. I started with tae kwon do, and then I started taking karate and mixed martial arts.

I'm a martial arts buff, so anything martial arts.

What people don't know is that I'm a blackbelt in jujitsu, which I've been for 20 years, and I've been boxing since I've been 15 years old - those are things that come natural to me.

With Carlson Gracie, who saw something in me, I started learning and loved mixing together the martial arts.

I quite like thai boxing. But then I'm not surprised because I did taekwondo and karate and judo and all of that when I was a kid, and then just stopped when I got a bit older.

I have to know jiu-jitsu and wrestling, but I'm a boxing guy.

The thing about mixed martial arts is you have to know every single martial art in the world or you're at a disadvantage. So, there's so much to learn. I have to know wrestling. I have to know kick boxing. I have to know boxing. I have to know karate.

When I was a kid, there were probably 100 schools in the Bay Area that just did martial arts.

My three most impressive fights have been against black belts in jiu-jitsu.

I was always into martial arts and boxing.

I discovered martial arts, first judo and then karate.

Martial arts just normally would not draw me to the box office.

Since my teen years I was interested in martial arts.

I've done a lot of training in martial arts. I started out in warring tempo, I did sports jujitsu, and I've also practiced extreme martial arts.

I grew up doing martial arts, and I'm a second-degree black belt.

I've been learning martial arts since I was 8 years old.

I had a bit of a martial arts background from when I was a teenager: I did a bit of karate.

I've been doing martial arts since I was 9.

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

There's no question in my mind that the times I was in my prime, I was the most well-rounded fighter out there - or in the world. I was the one who knew how to kickbox. I did kickbox and muay thai, I competed in events in Japan, and I was a submission specialist. Going into the UFC for the first time, I was the most well-rounded fighter there.

I'm too long, I'm too rangy, I can box, I can kick, I can wrestle, I can do jiu-jitsu.

The techniques that you learn as a male fighter are the same techniques you learn as a female fighter.