66 Quotes by Scott Coker

Spike is an entertainment company. So why not have entertaining fights when you can do them?

At the end of the day, it's a business about fighters and a business about people. This is our philosophy.

There are a lot of details you have to work out when you're talking about fighters competing twice in one night.

MMA has evolved. When you look at an MMA fighter's skill set, boxing has to be a big piece of it. All of them have a boxing coach now and strive to have a good stand-up game, knowing that to be a complete fighter, you have to tend to your striking skills.

Sometimes the fighter or an athlete feels they're valued a certain price, and sometimes we don't feel that way.

MMA has a great safety record. I was always confused as to why it was illegal in New York in the first place.

My background in promoting martial arts started in 1985 when we were doing PK Karate, which was on ESPN. Fast forward to when mixed martial arts became legal in California. I made the jump to MMA and never looked back.

I've taught martial arts to many children, from 5 years old and up - there's character development, there's respect, discipline, perseverance.

Martial arts is something I studied since I was 6 years old.