Ken Shamrock Quotes

In the early 2000s, I was introduced to the noble art of kickboxing, it thrilled me, and I loved it. I loved the honour and the discipline, and I also loved the punching.

I'm a white middle-class public schoolboy so I'm not particularly tough. But it turns out I don't mind going in the cage. I can dig in. And it's interesting watching people spar and train. There's no anger. It's all technique and delivered with venom.

Fighting isn't an ordinary career, so you have to allow your body time to recover in between training sessions.

For me the more important thing is fighting. You know, training, fighting. The sports side. I didn't choose my media life.

I'm just going to do what I always do: train. And when it's time to fight, I go fight.

A fighter has to be prepared for anyone, to train every day. That's what I learned at Chute Boxe.

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.

What's with all the running, anyway? I mean, I realize the importance of stamina and all that, but shouldn't I be moving on to something with a little hitting? They're still killing me in group practice.” "Maybe you should hit harder.

I fought tall fighters, short fighters, strong fighters, slow fighters, sluggers and boxers. It was either learn or get knocked off.

I thought boxing was stupid.

I never fought in my life outside of a ring.

I started doing karate at four, my parents were karatekas. I stopped when I was 17 and went to Julliard and had a lot of stage combat there.

I got into Taekwondo when I was nine, and I started training Muay Thai and Brazilian Jujitsu later in life.

My martial arts background is Tae Kwon Do.

I started doing MMA and boxing at the same time - I always wanted to try an MMA fight to see what it was like. I had one fight, and I was hooked.

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

I have a talent for coming up with an analogy about martial arts training for everything. It's because training to improve your martial arts skills and training to step into a cage and fight another person teaches you a lot about... everything.

I fight with good strikers every day.

I took boxing classes and karate when I was young.

The way I train, the way I spar, I'm out of my comfort zone every single day, and you can see the result in my fights.

I'm not a matchmaker; I don't run the UFC - I'm a fighter. So I'll stick to doing what I do best: training and punching people.

Nobody wants to be trapped inside that cage me. They don't want to be cut by my elbows, they don't want to get hit by any of my kicks and they don't want their conditioning checked by me.

My two main trainers were John Dahmer and DJ Hyde. DJ Hyde mainly taught me how to be tough: I mean, the beatings that he used to give the students as far as wrestling initiations go were as tough as they come, and I'm thankful for it.

The first thing you learn in a martial art sport is discipline, and you are not allowed to use it at home.

I'd turn up to the gym early and just be there, waiting outside, knocking on the door. It was something I thought I was decent at. I enjoyed fighting; it's how I've always been.