Sonya Deville Quotes

What people don't know is that I'm a blackbelt in jujitsu, which I've been for 20 years, and I've been boxing since I've been 15 years old - those are things that come natural to me.

This is mixed martial arts, so you have to be good at everything.

I want to be eventually be the best wrestler out there, be the best grappler out there, along with being the best striker - be all of them at one time.

I used to wrestle when I was younger. It was soccer, wrestling, rugby league and now MMA.

I've been taking martial arts for a long time. I started with tae kwon do, and then I started taking karate and mixed martial arts.

I'm a little greedy for action scenes. I'm a martial artist, and any time I get to show off some of that art is great.

Although not considered a martial art, boxing is really a martial art. It's a very limited martial art as long as you agree to just box... but in an actual physical fight against someone who's just a wrestler, you're going to get killed.

I go to gyms quite a bit, martial arts gyms, MMA gyms. I try to train with the best people, with who's who in the martial arts, just to keep myself sharp.

The MMA stuff has been really good, I'm enjoying that. To be able to work with Jay Glazer, he's a total meathead, he loves all that stuff. I hit him as hard as I can and he's like 'Yeah!' It's been fun for me to release that anger without putting pads on.

I'm hooked on martial arts.

Growing up, I was always a fan of wrestling, but I was also a fan of MMA and stuff.

I think T. J. Dillashaw and Demetrious Johnson - I'm a bad matchup for both of them.

I don't think the itch to fight has ever left me, ever. I mean, I got paid to do what I love for a living, and I got paid very well to do it. So that's going to always be there. That's always going to be like, 'Man, I wouldn't mind getting out there again.'

You can have the best college wrestling in the world, but you can have terrible MMA wrestling.

Most other schools train no-gi part time, or maybe even half the time. We train no-gi all the time.

There are always going to be detractors who will say I don't look like I'll be able to hang with Brock Lesnar. But Brock's a freak of nature, and I don't know anybody who looks like they can 'hang' with Brock Lesnar. But anyone can be choked out in seven seconds.

My view on wrestling in MMA is changed a lot since I started really doing it.

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

At Grudge, we just push each other. Whether it's sparring five rounds or rolling and doing drills, I do most of my cardio at practice. As far as running outside or riding a bike? That's not fighting, so I only do things that are going to help me in the Octagon.

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 like to fight on the ground. I'm learning every day. I think I'm good.

I was a wrestler and now I teach jiu-jitsu, but they're obviously different in many ways. However, they do kind of translate.

I've got to become 'The ultimate Ultimate Fighter.'

I feel like my wrestling and jiu-jitsu is so underrated.

Pro wrestling has absolutely helped my fighting.