Ego Quote by Demian Maia

MMA is very difficult; you can't just be good at wrestling. You need striking, kickboxing, jiu-jitsu and countless other things.

— Jake Hager

The level of difficulty in most areas of MMA is very high. It's a high learning curve. The footwork in boxing alone takes years…

— Jake Hager

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

— Derek Brunson

MMA is not just about who punches the hardest. There are a lot of things you have to know what to do. That's what…

— Jairzinho Rozenstruik

Just like basketball, MMA is all about taking what you're given and exploiting it as much as possible. Strength and stamina are important, but…

— Spencer Dinwiddie

MMA's not like a game like basketball, for example, that if you're winning by 30, 40 points and there's just five minutes left, you…

— Demian Maia

For me, MMA is like speed chess. It's like I'm herding a person into a certain position. Say my endgame is an arm bar.…

— Ronda Rousey

If you look at MMA, you don't have an amateur MMA. You have some of these young men like James Kirkland who had 140…

— Ann Wolfe

MMA is like that. You could win four fights in a row, lose a fight, everyone says you suck. You could lose three in…

— Curtis Blaydes

I actually think that wrestling is much harder than MMA, to be honest.

— Robert Whittaker

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

The thing about MMA is that it brings everything out of you, every emotion you have.

— Ovince Saint Preux