Gegard Mousasi Quotes

Reach, and all that other stuff, doesn't play as big a part in MMA as it does in boxing. Guys don't really fight with their length all that much, because they have to worry about the takedown or kicks. They have to worry about so many other things that they can't just fight real tall.

I don't know how to do takedowns.

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

One element of wrestling that I know what I grew up with we put a lot of emphasis towards was the takedown. But, you could win an Olympic championship and never score a takedown, and I don't know if MMA fans are even aware of that.

I'm good everywhere. I can defend the takedowns. I can get a guy down if I want them. I can keep it standing and strike. I can do it all.

Wrestling is different than MMA or boxing or really any other contact sport in that you can't really draw along an opponent.

I vigorously train in my jui jitsu and my wrestling, but my stand-up game gives me a huge advantage in defending take-downs.

Obviously wrestling is a core component of MMA. And among UFC fighters, my take-down defence is considered quite high.

My strength is my wrestling, but I don't focus on it as much. I try to focus on a lot of different things like knees, elbows, submissions, and submission defense - just a lot of different things.

If I were to fight Khabib, guaran-damn-tee you I would throw him from his feet to his back and beat him like in sambo like a five-point move in wrestling. That's my background.

In college, I tried to start wrestling as soon as I could and when it was available to me, as I loved competing, and then got into MMA under Pat Miletich, where I was able to sharpen all my skills and develop into a true fighter.

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

As far as MMA, I want to say there's maybe five guys that do jiu-jitsu that have an actual level of understanding when it comes to boxing.

I work on armbars, triangles, anaconda chokes, guillotines and rear-naked chokes. Basic, simple stuff. I just wanna go there and win the fight, I don't wanna invent too much and try doing fancy things.

Everyone knows I'm going to come in there and I'm going to stop your takedowns.

Coming from a standing background in striking, I couldn't catch up to the guys with 20-plus years of training on the ground. I had to learn submissions. I found out it wasn't an easy road. I had six losses in a row, but I still felt I was the best fighter in the world.

A good wrestler, with good jiu jitsu and great boxing, can beat Fedor.

I'm almost certain that no one at featherweight or lightweight wants to go to the ground with me.

Every time you have a huge fight in wrestling, in boxing, in MMA, both guys are sure they're going to win. They really believe it.

When I see wrestlers fight, they train a lot of boxing because they don't want to end up on bottom.

I don't need MMA, but I love fighting. Those are very different things.

When I grappled, I never even trained for a grappling match.

I'll be honest, when I first started pro wrestling, everybody else did clotheslines better than me. They did everything about pro wrestling better than me. But when it comes to fighting, getting nitty and gritty, I'm the man.

Don't care about catch-wrestling. I only care about Jiu-Jitsu.

I pretty much focus on all the main styles out there, karate, wrestling, boxing, jiujitsu, just pretty much anything within MMA.