Rusev Quotes

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 learnt a blend of different martial arts - not in great depth, obviously - but various moves such as kicks, blocks and punches. It was all quite fun.

I got into Taekwondo when I was nine, and I started training Muay Thai and Brazilian Jujitsu later in life.

I'm hooked on martial arts.

I started studying Jeet Kune Do in my early 20s.

That Dutch style of kickboxing, that's great. That's hard. It's very intimidating to stand across from, but you know it's very rhythmic on the beat. It's just something: It looks scary, but it's nothing to be scared of.

I'm very well-rounded. It's mixed martial arts.

I had always considered myself a martial artist who fights rather than a fighter who learned martial arts - although I probably flowed between those two categories over the years.

I trained in kick-boxing and Muay Thai.

I'm really into jujitsu. I'm a purple belt. I love it. It's a big part of my life.

I studied martial arts before I studied dance.

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

I love every type of martial arts, but with Muay Thai in general, I want to see it being brought to the public more. There is no movie that has Muay Thai incorporated into it, so I want to bring that to the public.

I've always wanted to learn kick boxing.

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

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've really taken a lot of time to work on my Karate, worked on my kickboxing, and Muay Thai.

When I train for a fight, you roll around, you catch someone in a move, you let them go. You just let go and keep going.

MMA was love at fight sight. I felt like I was born to do it.

The first thing you learn in a martial art sport is discipline, and you are not allowed to use it at home.

I love striking, but MMA and Muay Thai are different.

I've been learning martial arts - nothing specific, as then it becomes one-sided - but basic exercises.

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

It's MMA. I'm a complete MMA fighter. I expect everything. I'm ready for all of it.