Scott Coker Quotes

When I first came to Bellator, I wanted to take it back to what we accomplished at Strikeforce and look at the next generation. So we signed the Aaron Picos of the world and put them in our development programme to nurture them.

In my teenage years, I started kickboxing, then did a little boxing. When the UFC and MMA exploded in the early 2000s in the U.S.A. and Japan, I saw a way to make money and a career.

When you work with chains or any kind of weapons, or just when you're using hand-to-hand combat, you are going to get hurt.

I definitely want to fight after I'm done wrestling.

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

I've good memories of fighting at the Echo Arena. It's been a happy hunting ground for me in the past.

I love MMA.

All combat sports are connected.

I don't really follow MMA.

I love striking, but MMA and Muay Thai are different.

After 'Avatar' ended, I spent a lot of time watching MMA and kickboxing fights on UFC, WEC, DREAM, and K-1.

MMA has evolved. When you look at an MMA fighter's skill set, boxing has to be a big piece of it. All of them have a boxing coach now and strive to have a good stand-up game, knowing that to be a complete fighter, you have to tend to your striking skills.

I spar with Nick and Nate Diaz... those boys know what they're doing; they can throw their hands.

I've always loved kickboxing.

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

I don't need MMA, but I love fighting. Those are very different things.

I never planned on going into MMA or anything like that.

Gracie is not a family, it's a factory of fighters.

I was K-1 world champion.

I feel like I started with wrestling, and a love of pro wrestling, that lead me to MMA and the UFC. And now it's come full circle back to pro wrestling.

I think a lot of fans don't know MMA that well. They don't understand the subtleties.

I think the UFC's done a great job of building the brand, building the UFC, building MMA.

My goal is to make wrestling more like mixed martial arts.

MMA is something that I may want to get into after football.

One of the reasons I started pursuing MMA was for all the similarities to pro wrestling that it has.