Demetrious Johnson Quotes

You can hit the bags, the pads, and you can run and do your fitness and your weights as much as you want, but if you don't spar you just don't have that true experience, that true knowledge of how to beat a man in one-on-one combat.

I trained in kick-boxing and Muay Thai.

I think my fighting skills have certainly been improved by working with Peter Jackson.

I'm a little greedy for action scenes. I'm a martial artist, and any time I get to show off some of that art is great.

Everybody wants to be a good fighter.

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

I'm an all-around fighter. I do everything. I've got wrestling; I've got Brazilian jiu-jitsu, and I've got striking.

I've fought tactical fights in a gym, but never in a fight before.

I'm a completely evolved fighter.

I have done martial arts my whole life, so it comes easily, but I have never done proper sword fighting.

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.

When you're talking about fighting, as it is, with no rules, well then, baby you'd better train every part of your body!

I've done jiujitsu a huge chunk of my life, and I try to spend a lot of time educating people on the nuances, the subtleness of the ground game. It's a big part of mixed martial arts.

Fighters find it hard to give up doing what they do best - fighting for a living.

My fighting style, if you will, is a combination of mimicking, cowboy films and boxing that I have done throughout my life.

I could definitely take someone out with my bare hands.

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 trained in combat, sword fighting, horse riding... It's empowering knowing that I can a break man's nose with my elbow.

Although not considered a martial art, boxing is really a martial art. It's a very limited martial art as long as you agree to just box... but in an actual physical fight against someone who's just a wrestler, you're going to get killed.

When you have a background in combat sports, people think you're this martial arts expert, but really I'm just a guy who is able to do certain things without making a mess of himself.

I did not feel that I was designed for hand-to-hand combat.

People don't understand fighting. They think you just go there and stand in the middle and swing for the fence. People who fight like this are idiots.

The movie style of fighting is completely exaggerated with over-the-top movements. You'd get completely hammered if you fought like that in a real fight situation.

Boxing is limited fighting with a specific rule set. Fighting is true, where you can do anything.

I'm hooked on martial arts.