Tyron Woodley Quotes

Fighting is a very independent thing, and it's not a team sport, and it's not the NFL, you know, because we don't have to look the same.

I already knew a lot about the ground aspects of MMA, being a wrestler, but there was so much more. There was kicking, punching, and other things I wish I could have done as a wrestler. It really stoked my interest.

In college, I tried to start wrestling as soon as I could and when it was available to me, as I loved competing, and then got into MMA under Pat Miletich, where I was able to sharpen all my skills and develop into a true fighter.

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

I like fighting in America.

Of course, fighting's first. That's what I do; that's what pays my bills, you know.

When I was 15 years old, I watched Royce Gracie in the cage, and I thought I'd like to do the same thing.

I guess you could say I fell into it. The main goal was to be successful and to make my family proud. Back then, MMA was just getting started, and there didn't seem to be a ton of rules. It seemed pretty brutal, and I was still pretty focused on wrestling. But I decided to give it a shot.

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

Some people fight and stuff outside the cage, but I never liked that sort of thing. I just always wanted to do martial arts and I finally did it at 22 years old, so later in life, but it's all good.

Don't care about catch-wrestling. I only care about Jiu-Jitsu.

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.

Triangle chokes are the refuge for cowards. I would never stoop to that level of locking my legs around a man and squeezing.

I've been training for Ronda Rousey since my first fight in the UFC.

I've wrestled my whole life, and when I got done with college, I went back to school to become a firefighter. I liked MMA, but I didn't really know if I wanted to get punched in the face!

I don't wanna fight a street fighter.

I am a huge mixed martial arts practitioner.

I still like fighting, it just got to a point in MMA where it was just another day.

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.

When I went to college, I came across MMA. My first reaction was, 'No, I don't want to fight. I just want to learn jujitsu.' I didn't know what UFC was; in my mind it was this violent, ugly sport. But when I watched my first amateur fight, I fell in love with the sport and thought it was beautiful.

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 began fighting to stay fit and experience everything equally; hence, I took up kickboxing.

I started training for MMA when I was 18 years old. My jujitsu coach told me, 'Amanda, you should try MMA.' Since that moment, I got in love with this sport and haven't stopped.

Boxing's not in my blood... it just grew on me.