When you’re used to fighting in a cage, nothing scares you.
I have never been in a cage fighting UFC. It would be nice to try.
I will always get a certain thrill of watching bullets bounce off Luke Cage.
I feel I represent my country: not only my country but all former U.S.S.R. countries because I have very big fan base here, and I have more than a billion Muslim fans. I feel I represent these guys all around the world. My fans. This gives me very good energy. When I go to the cage, I think about these people.
Put a bird cage near the window so that the bird can see the sky? It’s much better to look than not to, even if it hurts.
He who is conceived in a cage yearns for the cage.
The point at which we worked with some of these actors, they weren’t really stars yet. Nicolas Cage was not a big star when we did Raising Arizona. A lot of these people were also virtually unknown, too, when we worked with them first.
I wrote this 12-page ‘Luke Cage’ comic book for Marvel once, and I got to create a villain. His name was Lone Shark, so there was this running thing of whether it was spelled L-O-A-N or L-O-N-E. I like the idea of ‘I’m a lone shark,’ and then people are like, ‘You are here to collect a debt?’
Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
The whole bad-boy image was for the cage, and that’s it. It wasn’t an act because it came from a passion for fighting.
I operate under the theory that all publicity is good publicity, and then, if that theory doesn’t work, you just say that any newspaper article ends up on the bottom of the parrot cage. But, of course, you can’t line a parrot cage with Internet bloggers, can you?
I don’t have anything to do but get in the cage and show my work and wait for my time.
Whatever steps in the cage against me, I will fight, because I have the belt, I’m No. 1 on the planet, and I want to keep staying here.
For me, I was never really obsessed with Luke Cage. My obsession was Wolverine.
In a perfect world, if I can get conversations done at a batting cage, there’s exactly the place I want to be.
One person that I really love to wrestle again is AR Fox and Brian Cage again too because those are two of my most favorite matches.
I spent many hours in the batting cage. I remember many days when my hands were pretty cut up and bleeding.
I injured my neck in training, but did physical therapy and thought everything was fine, but when I fell against the cage everything went numb, I couldn’t feel my body.
Benson Henderson is a professional; he’s a champion. He knows how to handle himself in the cage and he knows how to win fights.
I remember when I first came out, it was like half and half, half the female fighters were like, ‘I understand why she did it, and I’ll fight her,’ and half said I shouldn’t be in the cage and said horrible, horrific transphobic comments about me.
Sisters are brittle things. God was penurious with me, which makes me shrewd with Him. One is a dainty sum! One bird, one cage, one flight; one song in those far woods, as yet suspected by faith only!
A woman can slip on a pair of embellished cage heels one night and a pair of streamlined, lightweight sneakers the next day. The beauty of modern luxury is the absence of rules.
Wolves want to be wolves. Servals want to be servals. Bears want to be bears. And it is impossible to be a wolf or a serval or a bear when living in a cage.
I remember when we were having cage matches and Superfly Snuka was the first to do this – both of us were doing dives off the top rope – but at MSG he did off the top of the cage onto Don Muraco.
I am not walking around looking like Luke Cage does at all.
Even though my approach is slightly different, the Luke Cage of ‘Jessica Jones’ is no stranger to the Luke Cage of Marvel’s ‘Luke Cage.’ It’s really a continuation to a certain extent. It’s just got a little different flavor, but it’s still the same suit.
In the cage, you can’t say, ‘Oh wait, that’s off limits.’ There’s no timeouts, there’s no substitutions and there’s no saying my knee is off limits. This is a full contact sport.
I don’t want to talk trash about somebody: I want to prove it inside the cage.
I remember doing the sex scene in Red Rock West. I had to kiss Nic Cage and then look like I was going down on him. And he couldn’t do anything – he just had to lie there.
My father has always been the heart of my Penn Cage novels.
Fighting in the ring or cage is very much different from fighting in the street. Fighting in the street is very much fueled by anger, pride, and male dominance and ego.
I’m understanding how to use my swing and working in the cage every day to repeat what I’m doing. Just not trying to do too much.
I can know what Brian Cage is doing before he’s doing it because he’s doing me. I’ve been facing the man in the mirror my entire life. That’s been my hardest battle is the one where it’s me versus me.
Money laundering is not a crime. It’s just because certain men with guns don’t like what other people are doing with their own money, so they decide it’s okay to lock those people in a cage.
The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can’t have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I’d rather not be in a cage. I’d rather be dead. And it’s real simple. And I think it’s not that uncommon.
When I was 15 years old, I watched Royce Gracie in the cage, and I thought I’d like to do the same thing.
I wanted Luke Cage to very much be an African American superhero rather than a superhero that happens to be black. I felt it was important to give him that cultural grounding but also show that it doesn’t make him an obtuse or one-sided character.
I’ve said it before, every day in the cage, I’m trying to be consistent and keep my load and keep my body right and my mind right.
I was never late to a show more often than ‘La Cage.’ Because I lived close, and I didn’t really do anything in that show.
Girdles and wire stays should have never been invented. No man wants to hug a padded bird cage.
When I first started painting, I had an interesting nightmare about Cleveland – I dreamed the houses there were encased in this free-floating cage structure. I guess Cleveland was a confining place for me, even though my parents weren’t too conservative.
I just felt that Danny Rand within the Luke Cage universe… I just felt that he was going to be dope.
I like fighting, man. I didn’t get into this sport not to fight. I enjoy fighting; I actually enjoy getting in the cage.
Each work has its own space, which should neither be conceived as a sort of cage nor regarded as extending to infinity.
Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about.
I got access to a private tour of the zoo. I got to go in a cage with a koala, which I highly recommend.
Everyone at home sitting on their couches, they think it’s so easy to fight. Stepping inside that cage is probably the hardest thing in the world to do. I truly believe that.
It was dreadful. They tried to put the little redhead in a cage.
My mother used to tell me, ‘I’m fake thin, but don’t tell anyone.’ I think part of her reputation for dieting too much was to do with her upper body and thoracic cage being thinner than average, thus her thin waist.
When you’re walking out to the cage and fighting a guy like Vitor Belfort and you’ve got the crowd going crazy, most people would lose the fight right there and then. Since I’ve fought in a crowd that crazy and wild, I feel that nothing else is going to be like that.
We used to have endless discussions with journalists about that: ‘Why are you calling it noise? It’s not noise, it’s music,’ and make references to everybody from John Cage to whoever.
I can’t freeze when I go in the cage.
When I get in that cage and fight, that’s not me. It’s somebody else. It’s like a light switch that turns on.
To keep a person ignorant is to place them in a cage.
The hardest fights I’ve had have been in the gym, not in the cage. It keeps you motivated. One day, you’ll go in and feel like you can beat anybody in the world. The next day, you kind of get humbled. That’s what keeps us coming back to train more and more.
Every time you step into a different cage, you can feel the difference.
One of my aims was to be paid as well as a plumber. Plumber was better-paid than any performance artist who was always doing this for free. It is so important to make a good living from art. You know, John Cage, until he was 60, he couldn’t pay electricity.
For sure I think the traditional martial arts is a good background to have and definitely allows me to do a lot different things inside the cage. My wrestling background definitely helps me out a lot, but I don’t think either one led directly to MMA.
I couldn’t handle the rules the Queen has to live by at all, and very few of us could. It’s a golden cage, really. You’re never alone in that role – you are always surrounded by security.
It’s life or death for me every single time I step in the cage.
My rivalry against Chandler – it was personal. On the same night he defeated my brother, he said he could beat my entire family. I made him pay for his words by knocking him out inside the cage in one minute.
