Mike Colter Quotes

My style is kneeing people in the face.

It would be hard to throw a punch to someone who wasn't a boxer, who wasn't in the ring, and who didn't have on a pair of boxing gloves and who hadn't been training.

The movie style of fighting is completely exaggerated with over-the-top movements. You'd get completely hammered if you fought like that in a real fight situation.

I'm really good with fighting with my feet.

If you had no real training, if you hadn't spent years and years studying a martial art, how would you kill the bad guy?

Of course, fighting is not going to be as graceful as movie fighting. I don't like it to be ugly and I don't like it to be one big brawl or people clobbering each other.

Any time you do physical stuff, violence, it is controlled. It's a little bit like you block the move.

People ask me about fighting in real life and, honestly, it wouldn't look as graceful as it does in film and TV.

Streetfighting is just get out there and bang. It's whatever in a street fight. This is different. You have to be real smart in your decisions at this professional level of the game. In a street fight, it doesn't even matter.

I was a striker before a wrestler. I've always wanted to knock people out.

I love brawling, but I'm a smart fighter.

Martial arts is not for hurting people, it's for protecting people.

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

I like punching people and I like being punched, to be honest with you. What other thing could I do, beating people up and getting beat up, and get paid for it?

I like to say I eat black belts for breakfast. They're just great match-ups for me.

While hitting one must guard ... In order to hit with effect, the enemy must be taken off his guard.

I don't want people to kick my ass, I just want to get to a point where they can't kick it.

Her little fists pummeled at him, and he accepted the abuse. Until he realized she’d made an improper fist and was actually hurting herself. He wound an arm around her waist, spun her and slammed her into the hard line of his body to still her. “Let me go!” “In a minute.” As she struggled, he pulled her thumb out from beneath her fingers and rearranged her fist. “Hit like this.” Done, he released her.

You'd better stop readin' and writin' and start hittin' !

This is Annabeth,” Jason said. “Uh, normally she doesn't judo-flip people.

I just happen to love fighting and happen to be great at it. And I let my lifestyle carry over into my chosen profession.

I used my Karate footwork to control the distance, and I use is as a penetration drill that I do, this is my speciality, the way I penetrate on people, the explosiveness and the timing. It all started with Kyokoshin and Sports Karate.

Well everyone's a world class ground fighter until they get a punch to the face. So that's how I deal with all these ground fighters like everyone else. I hit 'em in the head and there goes your F**king black belt.

The Professor took the old practices and studied them, worked out their mechanical principles and then devised a graded scientific set of tricks, but is based on the elementary laws of mechanics, a study of the equilibrium of the human body, the ways in which it is disturbed, how to recover your own and take advantage of the shifting of the center of gravity of the other person. The first thing that is taught is how to fall down without being hurt, that alone is worth the price of admission and ought to be taught in all our gyms.

I like fighting, but I hate hurting people.