Chess is ruthless: you've got to be prepared to kill people.
Wrestling is a small, intimate sport.
I wrestled almost everybody.
It's one thing to get somebody down on the ground, but it's another thing to finish him there.
The whole dating ritual was different when I was a kid. Girls got pinned, not nailed.
People always go to the ground with me trying to just hold me. They stall and wait for the referee to stand them back up so they can start it all over.
Wrestling is such a competitive sport worldwide.
You watch Conor McGregor and Floyd Mayweather fight, Floyd can just throw a few punches, or he can do a lot of defense; he can slip a few punches, let Conor get a few shots in. You can't really do that in wrestling without getting scored on or putting yourself at risk.
Wrestling is second nature: I've been doing it for so long, so if it looks like someone's leg is available, it made sense for my first three fights that I would shoot for legs.
In wrestling, I was always competing against bigger guys.
If you stay in the guard and control the hips and flatten him out, you can control him. And that was the start of ground-and-pound.
Everyone knows I'm going to come in there and I'm going to stop your takedowns.
When I work with my art department on putting imagery together for my blog posts I always think, 'Would I pin this?' That really helps.
When I grab guys in the clinch, it's very tough for them to get away and I'm pretty good with my Greco takedown.
Wrestling is different than MMA or boxing or really any other contact sport in that you can't really draw along an opponent.
I'm a wrestler, a very polished wrestler and some of my best attributes in wrestling are my scrambling ability and my clinch.
High school wrestling is awesome.
I was never an upper body wrestler. I am a shooter.
I'm a great defensive wrestler.
In the division, yeah, I believe I have the best ground game.
I don't know how to do takedowns.
Pretty much my whole career, I have been aggressive. I have always been a guy that goes at pins. That's kind of the way I've been all my career, and I don't know, really, if I can change.
