Akira Toriyama Quotes

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

The techniques that you learn as a male fighter are the same techniques you learn as a female fighter.

Knowing how to fight made men more bold, because no one fears doing what it seems to him he has learned to do. Therefore, the ancients wanted their citizens to be trained in every warlike action.

I consider my MMA training starting the day I set foot in Urijah Faber's gym.

When you're doing something like wrestling - wrestling is one of the toughest and hardest martial arts to learn - but it's still a form of martial arts. It's still controlled.

Henri Hooft has made my hands and feet deadly weapons.

The art of Gracie jiu-jitsu is to learn how to defend yourself in any situation, not to score points, not for tournament style. It's for a street-fight situation.

You look into an encyclopedia and ask what fighter can do any type of martial art at a high-caliber level, my picture will show up.

As a fighter, you need to constantly improve. So that's what we've been doing: constantly improving striking, grappling, wrestling - there's always different aspects to improve.

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

I've fought tactical fights in a gym, but never in a fight before.

I went to acting school, and I polished my dancing, but I didn't really learn how to fight.

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

I'm an entertainer. I love to fight.

We've always looked for guys and girls who have striking ability... there's a reason my past company was called Strikeforce.

I train at American Top Team, the biggest team in the world, and I have every type of training.

They can be King Kong, Godzilla, or whatever - I don't care what they have. Once you get a punch in the face or a knee in the head, all of those skills are gone.

I have done martial arts my whole life, so it comes easily, but I have never done proper sword fighting.

Fighting Michael McDonald was awesome.

You can hit the bags, the pads, and you can run and do your fitness and your weights as much as you want, but if you don't spar you just don't have that true experience, that true knowledge of how to beat a man in one-on-one combat.

I think my mental toughness, athleticism, and my physical prowess, I'd be successful if I decided to fight, no matter what.

I've pictured myself fighting a whole bunch of people. Not only the Max Holloway, but also Conor, Cejudo, Korean Zombie, even Khabib Nurmagomedov.

Even the basics of learning how to throw a good punch is very hard.

I'll use wrestling if I need to in fights, but maybe I'll fight another wrestler, and you'll find out how good my striking is.

Being able to open up and use my kick would make me so much more dangerous. It wouldn't even be fair to use some of the weapons that we work on.