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I've been doing Tai Chi on and off for 20 years. The fundamentals of all martial arts are the same.

When I learn martial arts, my master will have me try a punch for a week and he will keep saying, 'No, you don't have it. No, that's not right.' When he finally says, 'Yes, you did it,' it's a wonderful moment. You worked on it. You got it.

I'm a boxer who believes that the object of the sport is to hit and not get hit.

Hitting is like swimming. Once you learn the stroke, you never forget it.

I can still take the hits; it's not a problem for me. I accept the blows. I can take the punches like a boxer.

If I'm going to get hit, why let the guy who's going to hit me get the easiest and best shot? I explode into the guy who's trying to tackle me.

My father taught me, in boxing, that when you - particularly when you get hit in the face for the first time - you're going to panic. That instead of panicking, just accept it. Stay calm. And any time anybody hits you, they always leave themselves open to be hit.

Fighting is kind of like choreography. It's not just get in there and punching someone: you have to have choreography. Someone is going to hit high; someone is going to hit at the bottom.

It's just kinda irritating to me that we're awarding people in mixed martial arts for trying to move away and not finish the fight.

If you fight back and get hit, it hurts a little while; if you don't fight back it hurts forever.