Dick Cavett Quotes

My earliest sporting memory is probably going judo when I was about 6 or 7 years old. My dad and my brother did it for a couple of years when I was young, in Nigeria.

I will remain active in judo.

I was doing judo before anybody knew it existed in this country.

I started training judo when I was 5 years old. I didn't know much. My mom just took me and my brother to do some judo because we were very energetic. We did that for a couple of years. I don't know why we stopped, but I came back to try other forms of martial arts like kung fu and karate when I was 12 and never stopped.

I'm really into jujitsu. I'm a purple belt. I love it. It's a big part of my life.

Doing nothing would stress me out. So I am still pretty much active practicing judo with my friends, who are former judo athletes, to maintain our fitness as well as the friendships among us. In my spare time, I usually go jogging around the Gelora Bung Karno stadium or head to the gym.

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.

My father was one of the first Tae Kwon Do Masters to come to the states in the '60s. He had one of the first all-African-American fighting teams, and I was basically raised in a karate studio since I was 3. It's part of my blood, competing, and all that stuff was responsible for a lot of me just growing 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.

I've always been huge into martial arts.

Above all, such sports as judo, in my view, teach people to relate to each other. They teach us to respect a partner, teach us to understand that an externally weak partner can not only put up worthy resistance, but, if you relax and take too much for granted, may even win.

I grew up in a martial arts gym surrounded by men and boys, and I pretty much call myself a tomboy.

My dad had me in Taekwondo when I was a kid, but I didn't retain much of that.

I'm hooked on martial arts.

My mom took me to a taekwondo class, and I fell in love. I was seven years old.

I'm very, very, very interested in martial arts.

I like to fight here in Europe.

I quite like thai boxing. But then I'm not surprised because I did taekwondo and karate and judo and all of that when I was a kid, and then just stopped when I got a bit older.

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

I have always been a big fan of combat sports - ever since I can remember, it was something that appealed to me and something that I thought I would be good at.

I do a bit of Brazilian ju-jitsu when I can. I like a bit of that.

I train jiu-jitsu and judo with the best guys there is, and the best guys for ground and pound.

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

When it comes to fighting and other fighters, I try to be respectful.

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