Dominic Purcell Quotes

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

I love fighting as much as I can and as often as possible.

Everybody wants to be a good fighter.

I do jiu-jitsu my whole life, so why would I try to stand and bang with Mike Tyson? I'm going to learn boxing in six months because my opponent is good in boxing? That makes no sense.

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 fighting skills have certainly been improved by working with Peter Jackson.

I love doing the fight stuff. It's the best.

People don't understand fighting. They think you just go there and stand in the middle and swing for the fence. People who fight like this are idiots.

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.

Boxing is limited fighting with a specific rule set. Fighting is true, where you can do anything.

I've always wanted to fight. I love to fight.

I fight with good strikers every day.

I'm not a matchmaker; I don't run the UFC - I'm a fighter. So I'll stick to doing what I do best: training and punching people.

To say martial arts, or the combative form - mixed martial arts - is not an art form is incorrect.

I've always had an interest in Muay Thai fighting. I love the discipline and toughness of it, so I traveled to Thailand to study ways to incorporate it into my style.

I love this fight game. I'm passionate about it. I feel great about it.

My jiu-jitsu style is definitely not the most entertaining one, so I'd rather do boxing and entertain the fans a little more.

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

Money, autographs, I had no desire to even do that. I fell in love with fighting and those types of things became attached to it.

I'm a completely evolved fighter.

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.

I'm a martial artist. I've boxed all my life. I work out. I studied Hwarangdo, which is a Korean style.

I'm learning as much martial arts as I possibly can. My show is packed with action. Enough to get a rise.

I never fought in my life outside of a ring.

I've done jiujitsu a huge chunk of my life, and I try to spend a lot of time educating people on the nuances, the subtleness of the ground game. It's a big part of mixed martial arts.