Adam Cole Quotes

Wrestling school was probably one of the hardest things I've ever done. It just killed me.

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 get to work out for my job and punch people and wrassle, that's a pretty cool job.

In the early 2000s, I was introduced to the noble art of kickboxing, it thrilled me, and I loved it. I loved the honour and the discipline, and I also loved the punching.

In the '60s and '70s and early '80s, the trainers would grind you, and eventually they would break something - they would break an ankle in ways that it would heal. It was just the way of the business, to ensure that you learned respect for wrestling.

The training is intense here at Nova Uniao.

In my fights, it's not if I get hit; it's when I get hit.

I took boxing classes and karate when I was young.

I used to travel for 12 hours to learn to wrestle when I was 15.

I'd turn up to the gym early and just be there, waiting outside, knocking on the door. It was something I thought I was decent at. I enjoyed fighting; it's how I've always been.

I'm a white middle-class public schoolboy so I'm not particularly tough. But it turns out I don't mind going in the cage. I can dig in. And it's interesting watching people spar and train. There's no anger. It's all technique and delivered with venom.

Fighting isn't an ordinary career, so you have to allow your body time to recover in between training sessions.

Boxing, Jiu Jitsu, some good old-fashioned wrestling and plenty of cardio. You name it, it's part of my routine.

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

I train to fight, to win.

For me the more important thing is fighting. You know, training, fighting. The sports side. I didn't choose my media life.

Part of my gift as a fighter is being a human punching bag.

I like to train and then step in the cage and do my job. This is the thing that I like to do.

With my style, training is very rigorous. You're toe-to-toe, getting beat on six days a week for five or six weeks leading to a fight. There's no fun, no glamour.

You're just taking punishment every day, getting hit all the time. That's something we're going to cut back on. I'll train hard but the sparring will be cut in half.

My father is a trainer. From childhood, I would watch him train and kick and punch.

I like training hard. I like to punch the face. I like getting punched in the face.

I believe in my wrestling and I believe in my jiu-jitsu.

I try to get better with every fight - my boxing, my wrestling, my jiu-jitsu, everything.

People don't understand, yeah I'm alright as a wrestler, but I beat people in the takedown because of my distance control - because of my Karate. This is something I learned since I'm 7 years old.