Top 100 I'mma Quotes
#1. Each person may see a fight in different ways ... They can see more to a primal way. Others they can see in a pure artistic way ... For me I see the pure artistic way, the way that a true martial artist can show his art.
Roger Gracie
#2. If I know the outcome is not going to devastate my life, it makes me so much more excited for everything that's to come.
Sara McMann
#6. I have never encountered a winner that held hate towards something.
Conor McGregor
#7. One of the important lessons I learned from my parents is always to respect authority figures like teachers.
Georges St-Pierre
#8. I have a big belief that whatever your passion is in life, pursue it to the fullest and try to be the best at it.
Myles Jury
#9. There's always pressure but I change that pressure into motivation.
Lyoto Machida
#11. You are innocent in your heart," she had said to him. "That is the most important thing." And he had thought about that for a few moments before shaking his head and saying, "I would like that to be true, Mma, but it is not. It is what other people think. That is the most important thing.
Alexander McCall Smith
#12. I don't care if people boo me or talk trash to me. I can't understand what they're saying anyways.
Jose Aldo
#13. Rich people are just people," said Mma Ramotswe. "I have not met a rich person yet who isn't just the same as us. Being happy or unhappy has nothing to do with being rich.
Alexander McCall Smith
#14. It's all about how I feel about things. I never expect much, I always felt like I obey my heart.
Rickson Gracie
#16. Most of the awesome people I know are just normal people who were insanely driven.
Jason Ellis
#17. When I'm doing my best is when I'm completely focused ... You completely wipe off any thoughts of the future, there's nothing going on in the past, you're just completely locked in on the moment, and there's no thinking, you're zoned in on this moment in time.
Frank Mir
#18. I'm a fan of Jay-Z, I'mma always be a fan of Jay-Z.
T-Pain
#19. I have MMA strengths, but I need to build on my weaknesses.
Holly Holm
#20. When you have a little bit more of a threat, I guess you just have a better sense of urgency, and for me that's when the best comes out in me
Jake Ellenberger
#21. I am afraid to piss in the morning 'cause I don't want to waste any of my excellence
Miguel Torres
#22. I am the kind of person that if something scares me then I feel like have to do it. That's something I have to conquer. I need to break that fear and go to it.
Barb Honchak
#23. Even though I had a rough life I always had my mind on bigger and better things.
Floyd Mayweather Jr.
#24. You're in a fight and have to dig down ... I find peace in that and enjoy it.
Dustin Poirier
#25. If I didn't positive have people influencing my life in a positive way, I don't know where I'd be right now. So if I can do that just in one person's life, it's all worth it to me.
Mark Munoz
#26. You can't be too comfortable. I have to keep pushing myself to be a better fighter every step of the way.
Alexander Gustafsson
#27. I'm not much of a planner. I set a goal and there really is nothing else ... no plan B.
Eddie Alvarez
#28. I don't want little girls to have the same ambitions as me. But I want them to know that it's okay to be ambitious.
Ronda Rousey
#29. I'm a very focused person. If I'm focusing on something I don't like distractions and I like to just do that one thing. And Jiu-Jitsu and MMA basically became that one thing for me.
Gunnar Nelson
#30. I think you take whatever it is that you would do for free and you figure out the way to do it.
Dana White
#31. I'm a menace to society,
But girls in biker shorts are so fly to me.
After the date, I'mma want to do the wild thing ...
You're talkin' lobster? I'm thinkin' Burger King.
Ice Cube
#32. The river makes the water flow. That's how I live. I just let everything flow. Flow with the river.
Vitor Belfort
#33. There's always opportunity in the now. If I'm there, I will seize it.
Michelle Waterson
#35. One thing I believe that's a key to success is celebrate your surroundings.
Conor McGregor
#36. My first love is MMA ... it's something that I did because it made me feel good.
Gina Carano
#37. The best I fight is when I'm just there being a competitor and enjoying myself.
Alexis Davis
#38. The fact that I get to live a life of passion where I'm doing only things that I love in this world and help people along the way. Life's good. I always remind myself of that.
Urijah Faber
#39. I think adversity is the dust that polishes the diamond.
Mark Munoz
#41. Raw I'mma give it to ya, with no trivia.
Raw like cocaine straight from Bolivia.
U-God
#42. I dont think about what my opponent will do in the fight and especially what he has to say about me - doesn't matter to me at all.
Gunnar Nelson
#43. I move in many ways. I can adapt and overcome to any situation.
Conor McGregor
#44. I've been through a lot of ups and downs. Just willing to get back up and grind every day to try and get better.
Robbie Lawler
#45. If I'm to accomplish my goal of being the world champion I've got to be better; so every day I come in here with a goal, and that's to get better.
Daniel Cormier
#46. When I stop chasing all the wrong things in life all the good things start to fall into my lap.
Danny Castillo
#47. I will repeat a technique until it is mastered, no matter when that will be. One certainty though: it will be.
Georges St-Pierre
#48. Don't be that guy that's laying in that hospital bed going, 'I wonder what would have happened if I tried it?' The worst thing that could happen is that it doesn't work.
Dana White
#49. It's just such a blessing that I get to be paid for something that I'm in love with.
Paige VanZant
#50. Spirit, like body, needs to be trained. So I think it's necessary to make your spirit stronger. And for he who believes, anything is possible.
Fedor Emelianenko
#51. In order for me to achieve ... I had to regard myself greater than what I was. In other words I had to fake it until I make it.
Mike Tyson
#52. I don't think I'm better than anyone; I just like to prove to myself that things I imagine can be done.
Anderson Silva
#53. I keep having vivid dreams of success. Then it's time to sleep.
Conor McGregor
#54. It was hard to follow my dreams ... I didn't let anything stop me.
Randa Markos
#56. I think any time you get beaten down and rise back up again, you become stronger.
Chris Weidman
#57. I always ask myself, "Did I get one percent better today?"
Benson Henderson
#58. Judo taught me that I am capable of anything ... I can mentally push past anything and be victorious.
Ronda Rousey
#60. But remember, that for every cheating wife in Botswana, there are five hundred and fifty cheating husbands."
Mma Makutsi whistled. "That is an amazing figure," she said. "Where did you read that?"
"Nowhere," chuckled Mma Ramotswe. "I made it up. But that doesn't stop it from being true.
Alexander McCall Smith
#61. I don't fight my friends ... I don't care how much money you put in front of me, I don't care if you put millions and millions of dollars and you say whatever you want.
Nick Diaz
#62. When I fight I try to empty my mind ... I only see that moment, nothing else matters.
Lyoto Machida
#63. MMA fighters are said to be some of the best athletes in the world. My plan at the age of 47 is to show the world I am still one of the best athletes as well.
Herschel Walker
#64. 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. I'm not gonna actually take you and put you there. What I'm going to do is convince you that it's a good idea to move in the direction I want you to go.
Ronda Rousey
#65. I started doing MMA and boxing at the same time - I always wanted to try an MMA fight to see what it was like. I had one fight, and I was hooked.
Holly Holm
#66. I would rather be happy and feel fulfilled and challenged every single day than just sit somewhere and get by.
Jessica Penne
#67. Fear of failure is always a driver but the thirst for more is a good one too ... So I think you need a little bit of both.
Ronda Rousey
#68. If I die tomorrow the world is in great hands. In a much better hands than mine.
Renzo Gracie
#69. If something scares me then I feel like I have to do it.
Barb Honchak
#70. I dreamed that I was being raped by Freddy Mercury.
Tank Abbott
#71. Jiu-Jitsu has been one of the most valuable tools I've ever had in my life.
Joe Rogan
#72. I pursue this dream and carry on. I don't dwell too much on the outside, I just focus on the inside.
Conor McGregor
#73. Each increment of knowledge imparted in this way is so satisfying-and one's ignorance at every stage so consequential-that the process of learning BJJ can become remarkably addictive. I have never experienced anything quite like it.
Sam Harris
#74. The same thought ... crosses my mind whenever someone tells me there's something I can't do: Try Stopping Me.
Anthony Robles
#76. I always look at things as, instead of a problem, how is this an opportunity?
Greg Jackson
#77. Money talks. This is the thing, at the end of the day, I do what I have to do, and I'mma keep doing what I have to do.
Lil' Kim
#78. I'm looking forward, that's all, I'm not looking backwards.
Robbie Lawler
#79. One thing that I learned from judo ... Maximum efficiency and minimum effort.
Ronda Rousey
#80. I've come up with my own cure for a closed mind: try it once, and see.
Georges St-Pierre
#81. What makes you tough is your mindset and I believe anyone can be tough.
Rickson Gracie
#82. I'm attracted to any type of endeavor that gives me the chance to express what's going on inside me.
Gina Carano
#83. I went in there with 100% belief, even though I knew how great the champion was, I just had to believe in myself.
T.J. Dillashaw
#84. I never fear my opponent, for me he only represents a new challenge to conquer.
Lyoto Machida
#85. You can't fear success and I think a lot of people do ... I'm not like that. I'm going for it.
Conor McGregor
#86. I look at it this way: I got to do better than yesterday.
Uriah Hall
#87. Cage Warriors is a brilliant organisation. They're doing great things for European MMA, and they're giving the platform for guys like me who came through. They're vital. I'm forever grateful for the opportunities I got.
Conor McGregor
#88. The only pressure I ever feel is the pressure I put on myself ... I'm over it. Now I go out there and I enjoy what I do.
Cub Swanson
#89. There are two kinds of people who do martial arts: those who practice a thousand different kicks one time each, and those who practice one kick a thousand times minimum. You can guess which group I belong to.
Georges St-Pierre
#91. Blessed with some success, so I'mma try my best to live my life right. When I see God, he'll be impressed.
Mac Miller
#92. I'm definitely on the pursuit of perfection ... I will always be learning.
Conor McGregor
#93. I'm used to being under pressure ... luckily I perform well under pressure.
Paige VanZant
#94. The biggest gift I received as a martial artist is without a question the capacity to be in peace.
Rickson Gracie
#95. I am as resilient as the steel that was once made here, and I am a fighter, in every sense of the word. We all are.
Mark Millar
#96. I use discipline and focus as my greatest weapons.
Lyoto Machida
#97. I think everyone has the desire in their life to be the best at something that touches them, that reaches them.
Cat Zingano
#99. What I've learned from those losses ... Priceless.
Robbie Lawler
#100. I do the extra ... When you do the extra you should never doubt yourself ... every fight I have a smile on my face because I know I've done it all.
Jon Jones
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