Scott Coker Quotes

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

All combat sports are connected.

I love striking, but MMA and Muay Thai are different.

I didn't know anything about martial arts. I'm a big fan, but I never practiced martial arts.

When people first started watching UFC, it seemed like a no-holds barred event... early on it looked like all the fighters were crazy. Actually, there are a lot of techniques, and the reality shows have let people see the fighters behind the scenes.

I love the UFC. I love it. If they had had that back when I was coming up, in 1966, it would have been my sport. Man, I love it. And you know what? Nobody would have pulled the rope-a-dope on me.

I love every type of martial arts, but with Muay Thai in general, I want to see it being brought to the public more. There is no movie that has Muay Thai incorporated into it, so I want to bring that to the public.

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.

Ali could only fight a couple of ways. I can fight five or six different ways.

I like to fight here in Europe.

I have to know jiu-jitsu and wrestling, but I'm a boxing guy.

I have other plans, other businesses. I have things to do. But I love to fight. I love this sport.

Street fight, you just ground and pound 'em. Boxing is totally different.

I want to fight guys I'm excited to watch fight.

I'm a vale-tudo fighter.

After 'Avatar' ended, I spent a lot of time watching MMA and kickboxing fights on UFC, WEC, DREAM, and K-1.

I spar with Nick and Nate Diaz... those boys know what they're doing; they can throw their hands.

I've kind of grew to enjoy fighting legends that I got into the sport watching and admiring.

To say martial arts, or the combative form - mixed martial arts - is not an art form is incorrect.

If Gerard Gordeau would have won the first UFC, everybody would be learning savate.

Whereas there's more of a learning curb with MMA, kickboxing is pretty easy to understand and has no geographical boundaries.

When someone decides to come into the UFC, and they don't have a combat sports background, you're kind of thinking, 'Does he really understand what he's getting into?'

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

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.