Sonya Deville Quotes

It's interesting because my Mixed Martial Arts upbringing is less Brazilian jiu-jitsu, which is the traditional thing that people study.

I've been involved in mixed martial arts since 1997 when I first started working for the UFC.

My view on wrestling in MMA is changed a lot since I started really doing it.

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 didn't really have intentions of fighting in MMA; it just kind of fell into place. Once I started fighting, though, I loved it, and I walked away from kickboxing right away.

I like all styles of MMA, my first classes in the sport were BJJ but I prefer to stand up.

People say that I'm a boxer. I actually started with kick boxing, and then I moved onto boxing, and then I moved onto grappling.

For the last years now I've had my own academy where I train Brazilian Jujitsu and Tae boxing, Muay Thai everyday.

I trained karate in 2001 to fight Heath Herring.

Everybody knows where I come from and how my jiu-jitsu is, training at Macaco Gold Team, but I also work on my striking at Chute Boxe Diego Lima, so I'm prepared on the feet and on the ground.

I got into the UFC after six months of training. I started doing jiu-jitsu, had my first fight, tried out for 'The Ultimate Fighter,' and got on.

I practiced everything, from my BJJ to wrestling, judo and Muay Thai.

I'm not just a grappler.

But I got into MMA for the sport. I love fighting.

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

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.

I pretty much focus on all the main styles out there, karate, wrestling, boxing, jiujitsu, just pretty much anything within MMA.

In my teenage years, I started kickboxing, then did a little boxing. When the UFC and MMA exploded in the early 2000s in the U.S.A. and Japan, I saw a way to make money and a career.

I underestimated the difference of fighting in a cage.

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'm not scared to go to the ground. I've been wrestling my whole life. I've done a lot of jiu jitsu, but I like standing up, and every fight starts there.

I'm more into MMA than any other sport. I watch a lot of the UFC fights. I have since it first came onto the scene.

I've done a lot of training in martial arts. I started out in warring tempo, I did sports jujitsu, and I've also practiced extreme martial arts.

Yeah, I get to fight in 'Eclipse.' My trainer is teaching me MMA right now. So. Cool.

If they let people go fight jiu-jitsu tournaments, they can't stop me going to fight a boxing fight.