Big Quote by Kamaru Usman

My wrestling actually helps my striking and my striking helps my wrestling. I just learned how to put it all together through synergy.

— Ryan Bader

The wrestling experiences I've had, the understanding I have of my body, that stuff has allowed me to excel.

— Johny Hendricks

Being a non-athletic person, I had to strengthen my core, arm and leg muscles before learning the wrestling moves.

— Wamiqa Gabbi

My striking is good, but I have wrestling, I know. I have wrestling more than everybody.

— Islam Makhachev

Dancing really teaches you to be aware of your body, and that transitioned well into wrestling.

— Peyton Royce

I wrestled before rugby league so I always had a pretty good wrestling background, a good base, and that helped with my football. It…

— Alexander Volkanovski

I had strong legs that would have made me a good sumo wrestler and I used that to my advantage, but my home runs…

— Sadaharu Oh

Working with Lucha and Mexico and all the independent wrestling I've done has made me an exponentially better performer.

— John Morrison

One of the things that made me love wrestling in general was my career in amateur wrestling in high school and college. Just being…

— Cedric Alexander

As I grew older and the dance became more competitive and more disciplined, that's when I started to realize that I'm an athlete.

— Camille Kostek

I think overall body awareness and knowing exactly where I need to be makes a big difference. Knowing how much weight to put on…

— Michael Chandler

Wrestling was my first success, the first thing that confirmed that I could be good at anything. Devoting yourself to wrestling, or tennis, or…

— John Irving