Mark Hunt Quotes

People consider me a striker, but I have trained jiu-jitsu for 10 years.

I've been working on my ground game, my jiu jitsu, and my standup as well. Those are areas where I feel like really needs to be cleaned up and areas I know that I can get better.

I actually take karate and tae-kwon-do. And so I love sparring and grappling and all that physical stuff. I studied a hybrid form of grappling, sparring, and self defense; it's more of a 'get yourself in shape,' and if you want to take it to the next level, so you're really learning valuable skills with self defense, and I really enjoy it.

When I'm out there, you just have to react. That's why you work on those throws. When you're in the moment, you can't think to yourself, 'How do I get this to go 47 yards and be 2 yards inside the sideline?'

I took Jujitsu for four years, which has no striking.

I trained karate in 2001 to fight Heath Herring.

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

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

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

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

My comfortability is always going favor the grappling side, that's the path of least resistance. But, I don't need necessarily need to force the takedowns like I used to before.

I have a great jiu-jitsu game and I'm awesome at submissions.

Ever since I was 10 years old doing jiu-jitsu, I've done well against the tall guys.

I wanted to train jiu-jitsu instead of capoeira because the mat was soft. It was better than training capoeira on the hard floor. I started reading jiu-jitsu magazines, reading about the world champions, and becoming one of them became my goal.

I already knew a lot about the ground aspects of MMA, being a wrestler, but there was so much more. There was kicking, punching, and other things I wish I could have done as a wrestler. It really stoked my interest.

Jiu-Jitsu is the bond or styles all between all the other styles. Take Jiu-Jitsu out, a boxer is just a boxer, a kickboxer is just a kickboxer. Take Jiu-Jitsu out of the wrestling - what is he going to do, take the person down and? There's no finishing holds, there's no striking.

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

I was always into martial arts and boxing.

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

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.

I've always been huge into martial arts.

I've sparred with lots of people and played around with everybody.

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

I fight with good strikers every day.