Channing Tatum Quotes

I'd always done martial arts I was always interested in fighting.

I'm an entertainer. I love to fight.

We tottered together upon the brink of the fall. I have some knowledge, however, of baritsu, or the Japanese system of wrestling, which has more than once been very useful to me. I slipped through his grip, and he with a horrible scream kicked madly for a few seconds and clawed the air with both his hands.

I grew up doing martial arts, and I love martial arts movies and fight scenes. I'm pretty athletic, so I enjoy doing that stuff.

Since my teen years I was interested in martial arts.

I'd love to do live-action superheroes. And you know, I boxed for several years. I have some martial arts experience.

Martial arts in general were not made for a tournament, for points system. Martial arts were made to defend yourself in the street fight situation, not to score points.

I really don't look at it as a real sport because anybody can come into MMA and learn that. You can learn that.

Fighting is about knowledge, knowledge is a very important part of it.

I've done all kinds of martial arts. I have my blackbelt in Shorei Ru. I'm doing Wu Shu. I do all kinds of different martial arts.

I'm a trained martial artist. My parents were both martial artists.

Fighters find it hard to give up doing what they do best - fighting for a living.

My fighting style, if you will, is a combination of mimicking, cowboy films and boxing that I have done throughout my life.

I'm a huge boxing fan. I love the strategy and the combat.

Boxing, in the most general terms, is a poor man's sport. All you have is your hands to make a living.

People don't understand fighting. They think you just go there and stand in the middle and swing for the fence. People who fight like this are idiots.

I've been doing martial arts since I was 9.

Fights are all about styles and matchups.

I've got more skills in my pinky finger than half the damn guys in the UFC.

I love fighting for the UFC. It's an amazing company. I've done a lot of great things, and they've done a lot of great things for my career.

Once I realised what boxing was, I understood - this is the ultimate form of competition. Once you box you go back to the football field or rugby and it just doesn't have the same spice.

I started very young... I learned my martial arts first in the street. There were always fights. That's the culture in Brazil.

You look into an encyclopedia and ask what fighter can do any type of martial art at a high-caliber level, my picture will show up.

I've fought tactical fights in a gym, but never in a fight before.

I believe I can beat Anderson Silva, and I believe that the skills that I have is something he'd have hard time dealing with, but to compete against the guy, first and foremost, would be an honor in and of itself.