Basketball Quote by Blake Griffin

When you're training, and even when you pick somebody up in sparring, you're not going to slam a guy on his head. That's basically…

— Dillon Danis

Whatever the fighting is - boxing, fighting, Judo, Thai boxing, it's how much you know doing that. Some people just know how some people…

— Channing Tatum

It's competition. I think that's what drives your top athletes in the UFC, getting in there against one other person and mixing it up.

— Matt Hughes

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

When we started training with WWE, coaches were impressed and asked if we had had boxing training. I said no, it was all soccer.…

— Nikki Bella

First of all, when the guy controls the distance the way Conor controls the distance, it's not easy to take the guy down. Another…

— Gilbert Burns

A big strong guy could throw punches, but on the ground, it's a lot different when you have to learn every single way to…

— Dillon Danis

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

Even when I teach my MMA classes in the gym, it's hard to teach what I do. It's more of state of flow, a…

— Aljamain Sterling

I've learned that, bizarrely, I enjoy having a fight. Obviously nobody likes getting hit, but I don't have a problem with it. In MMA…

— James Haskell

It's like since I've been into the MMA world, I've always had people wanting to pull me in all these different directions, and I'm…

— Mackenzie Dern

It's not just the physical aspect of boxing, it's the whole fighter mentality that has been ingrained in me through the years as a…

— Cara Castronuova