Day Quote by Chad Mendes

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

— Derek Brunson

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 in an individual sport, and you're just pushing yourself to be as dangerous as you can be in 15 minutes.

— Tim Kennedy

I really don't look at it as a real sport because anybody can come into MMA and learn that. You can learn that.

— Adrien Broner

I'm an MMA fighter, bro. It's what I do, it's what I live for. This is what brings food to my table and I…

— Yair Rodriguez

MMA is the most dangerous sport there is for a transgender, with all the body contact, I know that.

— Fallon Fox

People shy away from it [MMA] because they think it's a brutal, brutal sport, and I've said, 'Guys, MMA is safer than football and…

— Herschel Walker

MMA for me was a stepping stone in my life as a man to grow... The stress and the fears and anxiety you've got…

— Enson Inoue

When you fight MMA, there are so many things involved, so many techniques, that you just can't do everything or you'll over-train.

— Demian Maia

I try and make it possible for beginners to start training MMA and not be scared of it as a sport. I try to…

— Fedor Emelianenko

MMA is a sport where anything can happen.

— Gerald Meerschaert

There's a reason that football players, that still choose to come over to train MMA. They're professional and phenomenal freak athletes and they know…

— Benson Henderson