Lyoto Machida Quotes

For the last years now I've had my own academy where I train Brazilian Jujitsu and Tae boxing, Muay Thai everyday.

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

But I got into MMA for the sport. I love fighting.

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

It's interesting because my Mixed Martial Arts upbringing is less Brazilian jiu-jitsu, which is the traditional thing that people study.

I pretty much focus on all the main styles out there, karate, wrestling, boxing, jiujitsu, just pretty much anything within MMA.

I'm very well-rounded. It's mixed martial arts.

I've done a lot of training in martial arts. I started out in warring tempo, I did sports jujitsu, and I've also practiced extreme martial arts.

I do practice martial arts, more as a recreational thing, but a lot of my friends have been heavyweight champions the in mixed martial arts world.

People say that I'm a boxer. I actually started with kick boxing, and then I moved onto boxing, and then I moved onto grappling.

MMA in my opinion is the hardest sport in the world, no doubt.

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

I like fighting, man. I didn't get into this sport not to fight. I enjoy fighting; I actually enjoy getting in the cage.

I've been doing everything people like to see: knock people out, and submissions, and go in there to fight.

I have never been in a cage fighting UFC. It would be nice to try.

I trained karate in 2001 to fight Heath Herring.

I think martial arts, in general, shaped my wrestling style. I think I grew up as a martial artist as a kid.

I watched the UFC way back in the day, before there were time limits. I always knew it's what I wanted to do some day.

Street fight, you just ground and pound 'em. Boxing is totally different.

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

I'm in the UFC; this is a sport about fighting. If someone wants to fight me, or someone wants to fight someone else... you're here to fight each other, so I get it.

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

I've really valued each area of MMA.

That was always the top martial artist - the Brazilian jiu jitsu black belt. Once I started beating them, I knew I had what it takes to form a new martial art. That's when I came up with Joe Jitsu, my namesake, so my legacy lives forever through the martial arts.

When I was 14 years old, I said, 'Mom, I want to fight MMA.'