Ball player Quote by Benson Henderson

In MMA, you're trained to tune the audience out. In sports entertainment, you're trained to feed off what the audience is thinking and feeling.

— Shayna Baszler

MMA is in like the bare-knuckle era as where boxing once was. What it has to do is be given time to grow up.…

— Rico Chiapparelli

No other sport operates how MMA does. No other athletes are treated like MMA athletes are. There's just a sliminess to MMA that was…

— Jon Fitch

I feel bad for guys in other sports that never work a job. Think about it, most MMA fighters have had to do something…

— Forrest Griffin

MMA embodies a lot of disciplines of sports with footwork and with football, especially with the punching technique you get the hand and eye…

— Rashad Evans

MMA is a sport. We go out here and we do battle. Everybody has family, friends, they train really hard.

— Derek Brunson

It was really difficult being away from MMA because it's been a way of life for me for 13 years. But being on the…

— Rashad Evans

I grew up in one of the most prolific high-school-wrestling programs in the country, and MMA fighters are more successful when they have that…

— Jake Hager

We train, we try to be as safe as we can, but you do realize this is MMA, this is a sport where we're…

— Chad Mendes

Due to the UFC educating people on MMA as a sport, people give us the respect as athletes, opening doors to opportunities which wasn't…

— Michael Bisping

I think a kid from the inner city, if I had to recruit, is the ideal person for MMA. They'd be less likely to…

— Tyron Woodley

In boxing, where most of the guys are from lower-class backgrounds and have darker skin than most of the fans, one might fear that…

— Jonathan Gottschall