Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

If you want street fight, let's go. If you want boxing, I show you. But people think I am, like, gangster. No. Ring is different world. Very dangerous.

If you had no real training, if you hadn't spent years and years studying a martial art, how would you kill the bad guy?

I could definitely take someone out with my bare hands.

It's on my bucket list, to get in a real fight.

I'm a street fighter.

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 love UFC, vigilante films, and any acts of merciless heroism.

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

Stockton is a great fight town because if you drive long enough on some of these roads, you'll probably see a pretty good street fight.

I do what I do for a job. This is fighting. This is a bloody sport. It's not a nice sport.

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

Machida Karate is for real combat. Other karate may be not for real combat because there are many rules for the competition, and a lot of the rules aren't good for real combat - you can't do some takedowns, you can't finish the fight on the ground. Machida Karate is very different.

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

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

I remembered watching the first UFC. You couldn't get it on TV. They were doing it bare knuckles. No gloves. I wanted to do that.

We got four-ounce gloves here. It's not hard to knock someone out.

Yes, I started off as a bare-knuckle boxer.

People in Toronto love to watch fights.

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

Well everyone's a world class ground fighter until they get a punch to the face. So that's how I deal with all these ground fighters like everyone else. I hit 'em in the head and there goes your F**king black belt.

I like fighting, but I hate hurting people.

Boots and leather jackets were strewn on her bed, and what looked like a new knife set. She’d taken a class last winter and was dying to try them out legally on someone.

First rule of Teach Kane a Lesson: you don’t talk about Teach Kane a Lesson. Second rule of Teach Kane a Lesson: you don’t talk about Teach Kane a Lesson. Third rule of Teach Kane a Lesson: if someone taps out, you just keep fighting. Fourth rule of Teach Kane a Lesson: there are no rules. Got it?

I get paid to hurt other people, how good is that?

Sometimes it's boring because it takes time, but it's enjoyable. So beating up people for a living is really fun.