Matt Riddle Quotes

I started doing martial arts since I was 12, and then I went into wrestling in college. After I met John Hackleman, I started getting really serious about it, and after a few amateur fights, I got an invite to the UFC and have been in love with it ever since.

Obviously wrestling is a core component of MMA. And among UFC fighters, my take-down defence is considered quite high.

Mixed martial arts is great, and it's here to stay.

I saw my first UFC fight when I was 15 and figured, 'This is what I want to do when I grow up.'

There are certain things that I always dreamed of, like fighting in the UFC. There's just certain things that I feel like haven't been accomplished there. There's such great women coming up in the sport; seems like a wonderful time to be in women's MMA.

Georges St-Pierre is a good fighter who is proving his place in MMA with every fight.

I found wrestling when I was 11 years old. About two years later, I convinced my mom to let me rent my first UFC tape. I was fascinated by the sport.

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.

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

I respect all the fighters. I respect Georges St-Pierre because Georges has a great story in the UFC. I respect all the fighters in here because this is the biggest sport in the world.

In the UFC, it's about names. Every fight is hard, and everybody knows all the disciplines. Some might know more than others.

It's easy to enter the UFC, but staying there isn't.

The strawweight division may be the lightest division in the UFC, but we are very tough fighters.

I always wanted to fight Cormier. He has this fighting style, he's a warrior, I always wanted to fight someone like him, a guy like 'Rampage,' someone who moves forward and fights.

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.

I remember watching Anderson Silva fight Dan Henderson at UFC 82. I had never really watched MMA, but I looked up to Dan Henderson. He was a wrestler, like me, but also a tough, powerful mixed martial artist.

A great fight that I'd love is B.J. Penn. That would be so awesome. He's a veteran of the sport. He's fought everywhere.

If I were to fight Khabib, guaran-damn-tee you I would throw him from his feet to his back and beat him like in sambo like a five-point move in wrestling. That's my background.

Honestly, I would love to fight Henry Cejudo. You've got that gold medalist in the Olympics, I would love to test myself against that.

I want to fight a UFC fighter.

I'm always training to fight the best fighters in the world, and if the UFC wants me to fight Georges St-Pierre, then I will fight him.

I've never said no to any fight the UFC has asked of me.

I want to be the first British person to lift a UFC World Title.

I'm usually looking to wrestle and grapple, but I guess the knockouts just happen.

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.