Jack Lowden Quotes

The armlock is an armlock, a choke is a choke. How you set it up - is different. Everybody have their personal style.

When I fought with Michael Johnson, when I took his arm for the kimura, I can break it, but I go very slowly, be careful, because I don't want to give him injury.

Rear-naked chokes are easy? Yeah, it's easy to get, but people are getting better at defending it.

It's one thing to get somebody down on the ground, but it's another thing to finish him there.

How do you fight when you're trying to pull somebody's arms off or twist their head off? That makes for a different kind of fight.

My martial arts came a lot from my uncle, who actually taught martial arts through the military. He was a black belt in tae kwon do, but also, he used a lot of military-style fighting where it's not the high kicks or anything like that. It's basically defeat your opponent as fast as possible.

I was writing a scene where a guy was choking another guy to death. You can go online and type 'chokeholds' and watch scenes where martial artists choke each other out. You can hear what noises they make when they go unconscious, see how their bodies flop and everything. YouTube is amazing for the more detailed stuff.

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

I'm a guy who's in there everyday with world-class grapplers feeling that pressure.

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.

I think I'd be able to win the fight against Ronda.

Wrestling is second nature: I've been doing it for so long, so if it looks like someone's leg is available, it made sense for my first three fights that I would shoot for legs.

Nobody wants to be trapped inside that cage me. They don't want to be cut by my elbows, they don't want to get hit by any of my kicks and they don't want their conditioning checked by me.

I almost want to ask the judges, 'If you don't count leg kicks, if you don't count body kicks, why not?' So if you don't think they're effective in the scoring criteria, they're not effective striking, effective grappling, so how about I kick you in the body, I kick you in the leg, and you tell me how that feels?

I see the takedowns; I see the opportunities to take people down or even try to submit them or something like that. But man, I prefer to stay on my feet. That way I'm confident.

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

I've been training jiu-jitsu for a while. It just didn't really click in my brain. Maybe sometimes I get a bit lazy. By the time I realize I'm in trouble, I'm already caught. You can't really think about it. You've got to just react as it happens.

I'm trained in mixed martial arts. I started when I was 14 and did my first competition at 18. It was a grappling competition against all guys a weight category above me, and I got first place.

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

I'm usually looking to wrestle and grapple, but I guess the knockouts just happen.

I train jiu-jitsu and judo with the best guys there is, and the best guys for ground and pound.

We teach the karate methodology, bringing back the history of the martial art, the attacks that stopped being used when the martial art became a sport and that my brother and I use in the cage.

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

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

Triangle chokes are the refuge for cowards. I would never stoop to that level of locking my legs around a man and squeezing.