Rocky Johnson Quotes

Guys play basketball and get hurt, and that's probably the easiest sport on the planet. We're actually fighting every day. We're wrestling; we're grappling.

With injuries, every match varies. The black eyes are accidents. The broken noses are accidents. But the bumps from when we land on the mat, they're hard. I think it looks easier, or the fans don't really understand what's happening, but it does take a toll.

When you work with chains or any kind of weapons, or just when you're using hand-to-hand combat, you are going to get hurt.

I get paid to get hit in the head.

I'm well-versed on the mat, but I can pick up people much bigger than me.

I was a wrestler and now I teach jiu-jitsu, but they're obviously different in many ways. However, they do kind of translate.

Fighting is different than other sports because you're not competing as regularly.

Low kicks, you need to throw at least 20 to finish the guy, and he has 20 chances to block you, and you can break your leg.

I've trained boxing in the past to learn the distance, trained wrestling to understand how he would take me down, but I won't get there to fight my opponent's game.

I get to work out for my job and punch people and wrassle, that's a pretty cool job.

I had two ACL injuries in my life, and both of them happened when I was training with bigger guys; a heavyweight and a light heavyweight. Sometimes it's not even because the guy is good, you just get hurt.

I don't like to get hit, who likes it? I probably wouldn't do this sport if I was getting hit that much.

I love what I do. I love the competition of fighting. And I love to wrestle.

One thing I took - you know, especially from boxing at a young age - from my coach was, if you're a jiu-jitsu guy, and you only cater your training to jiu-jitsu, there's going to come a day and time in your career when you face a guy who is a great wrestler, has great takedown defense, and he's going to make you look silly.

My Jiu-Jitsu is very MMA focused. I was not the best striker, and when I considered becoming a MMA fighter I just focused to improve my BJJ.

The techniques that you learn as a male fighter are the same techniques you learn as a female fighter.

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

I train in Muay Thai, kickboxing, traditional boxing, wrestling, jiujitsu, and a little bit of judo.

Don't care about catch-wrestling. I only care about Jiu-Jitsu.

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

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

When it comes to damage, boxing will cause more damage than MMA ever will.

People consider me a striker, but I have trained jiu-jitsu for 10 years.

Triangle chokes are the refuge for cowards. I would never stoop to that level of locking my legs around a man and squeezing.