Fighting Technique Quotes

Now I'm with the American Top Team, I'm a better fighter, I'm a more patient fighter, I've improved in every aspect.

I found boxing so, so easy with incredible power, speed, and accuracy.

I try to catch them right on the tip of his nose, because I try to punch the bone into the brain.

Swing is my main weapon.

It's interesting how Khabib fights but to me it's just boring, it's lazy.

If I hit the Klitschkos with the same shots I was hitting John Ruiz, both of them would go over.

When I was part of McGregor's sparring camp, I struggled to find words to compliment him; I knew he couldn't fight from the first moment we sparred. It's very hard to find nice things to say about his skills. Perhaps his best attribute is his intensity, but he has to do it cleanly.

I love it when fighters are textbook.

Doing the sword fighting is like picking up a dance routine... I think dancing really helps with the picking up of it.

My martial arts background is Tae Kwon Do.

You hit somebody with your fist and not with your fingers spread.

Unlike any other sport, the objective in boxing is chillingly simple: One man purposefully endeavors to inflict bodily harm on another man.

Most of my fights, I push the pace. I'm the aggressor.

Well I knew JD could go out there and knock the guy out because in training I told JD all the time that he has height, reach and size and he has the power. JD has such a right hand, his right hand is like wow, oh man it is bad.

I'd have to change all my training style to fight Cyborg.

The way to beat the Klitschkos is to get inside, under the jab, and bang to the body. Do that for two or three or four rounds and then the hands will come down and then you turn them over. It's like chopping a tree down. These guys try to headhunt when they fight them and that won't work. But you back them up, the younger brother especially, and he loses heart.

I'm an overall sound fighter, a boxer-puncher.

I'm developing more as a welterweight and becoming a better fighter.

I'd say I just fell in love with trying to knock people out really quick instead of letting the fight develop.

Boxing has been in my blood since I can remember. It comes naturally to me, and I've enjoyed it ever since I started, at the age of six.

I'd take precision any day over power; as far as being tactical you know you have to see what's going on in there and also understand that for every punch that you or your opponent throws there's always a counter shot or two which you have to be ready to fire or defend.

I don't try to knock 'em out, I just know I will

I knock people out. As soon as I land my shots on him, you will see the difference between class and hype. He's been built up and he believes the hype, but I will beat reality into him.

Everybody knows how to throw a punch. Not correctly - he or she might not know how to turn the wrist or know what part of the hand to hit with. But humans instinctively know to fight, whether they bite or claw or pull hair. It's an instinct.

Part of their problem was Percy. He fought like a demon, whirling through the defender's ranks in a completely unorthodox style, rolling under their feet, slashing with his sword instead of stabbing like a Roman would, whacking campers with the flat of his blade, and generally causing mass panic.