Tyron Woodley Quotes

I really don't look at it as a real sport because anybody can come into MMA and learn that. You can learn that.

For me, boxing's like checkers, and MMA's like chess - there are so many ways to win the match. It's not barbaric; it's boxing, kickboxing, Jiu-Jitsu, wrestling, cardio and it's all reached such an amazing level. As fans learn more about the sport, they just fall in love with it.

Yeah, I get to fight in 'Eclipse.' My trainer is teaching me MMA right now. So. Cool.

I want everybody on Fox to see my fighting style, to really become a fan of the sport.

When I was 15 years old, I watched Royce Gracie in the cage, and I thought I'd like to do the same thing.

I've been training for Ronda Rousey since my first fight in the UFC.

That was my dream since I was a kid, since I first saw a vale tudo event in my hometown of Sao Paulo. I wanted to compete.

The UFC offered me a fight against one of the Top-10 fighters named Demian Maia. I believe he was, like, No. 2 at the time. They obviously believed in me to think that I could face one of the best guys in the division.

I get more respect doing professional wrestling than I ever did in MMA.

It was very important to me to join an organization that has an established track record of helping young fighters grow into world class athletes and champions. Gladiator Challenge has been a home to such fighters as Quinton Jackson, Rashad Evans, Urijah Faber, Tyson Griffin, Chael Sonnen, Michael McDonald, and many others.

It's interesting because my Mixed Martial Arts upbringing is less Brazilian jiu-jitsu, which is the traditional thing that people study.

When you're coming up, and you have Matt Hughes, Tim Sylvia, Jens Pulver and Pat Miletich, Jeremy Horn to train with and compete with - guys that have fought in Japan, all over the world - and you see these guys every day, you just embrace the grind and get after it: you have no choice but to succeed.

I'm an all-around fighter. I do everything. I've got wrestling; I've got Brazilian jiu-jitsu, and I've got striking.

In terms of career options, I didn't think about MMA at all. I don't know if I really thought it was a career path for many women. For someone like me, even in my prime, it wasn't something I really considered.

I didn't get into MMA because I wanted to be UFC champion. That wasn't my motivation.

I'm a MMA fighter, man. I'm a MMA fighter, all the way.

I'm a catch wrestler, so I used catch wrestling in Mixed Martial Arts.

People forget, I was 9-0, I was fighting Anderson Silva. I was fighting the best guys this sport has ever seen, one after the other, with no experience.

I've fought Jacare twice, it's not a fight people want to see.

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.

People don't realize how sick Amanda Nunes is. She beats some of the UFC bantamweight males in the gym.

Ben Askren is a joke. The guy has no skills.

I had my first fight at UFC 13, and it was just one of those things that become second nature to me.

I believe I can beat Anderson Silva, and I believe that the skills that I have is something he'd have hard time dealing with, but to compete against the guy, first and foremost, would be an honor in and of itself.

I won the belt in DREAM, I won the belt in Strikeforce, every fight was just a fight, it wasn't something special, it just was getting in the ring and fighting.