Now lets not start that lol.
i think he meant bruce lee got him into martial arts in general, which for sure he got millions of people worldwide into martial arts, including many mma greats.
If i hadn't seen any Bruce Lee-movies in the 70s, i don't think i even would have started training MA in the first place, which in turn made me interested in MMA
I would probably had focused on being a Lawyer or Doctor instead like my parents wanted
So Bruce was the catalyst for me:
70s
Bruce -> Traditional Martial Arts
80s
Trained TKD, Wing Tsun, Xin Na
Idols at this time were Jackie, Yuen Biao, Sammo, Wang-In-Sik, Benny the Jet Urquidez, Dennis Alexio, Chuck, Bill "Superfoot" Wallace, Jun Chong, James Lew, the Rhee Bros, Hwang Jang Lee, Grandmaster Heee Il Cho etc
Early 90s
Trained Wushu (Jet Li and Donnie Yen inspired me), Xin Na as well as Muay Thai but started gaining more interest in implementing Grappling at this stage.
Followed K-1 (and regular Muay Thai) alot and watched Crocop, Ignashov, Peter Aerts, Samart, Diamond Dekkers, Glaube, Cobal etc
Mid-Late 90s
Watched Pancrase and UFC and later Pride and was hooked, started implementing Wrestling and Jiu Jitsu in my repertoir.
Idols at this era were Shamrocks, Igor Vov, Sakuraba, Enson, Bas Rutten, Wand. (i'm sure i have forgotten a few)