It’s your purpose to leave the world better than how you found it.
Sports are a metaphor for life.
There have always been people who have written me off. They’re not going away. I use that to motivate me. I’m driven to show them just how wrong they are.
That I happened to fall into a career that no other girls wanted isn’t surprising to me. I wanted something that didn’t exist, so I had to create it.
I’m the most dangerous unarmed women in the world, I’ve prepared my entire life to be that way.
I’m living such a lucky and blessed life and I’m trying my best to deserve it.
A belt does nothing but hold your gi together. A belt has assigned significance, a belt is someone else saying you’re good, you don’t need other people saying that you’re good in order to be good.
That’s why I love fighting, because I get to have a big battle every couple months to make up for the little battles I have to forfeit every day.
When I looked at the state of women’s MMA, what I saw was that it was missing rivalries or anything theatrical about it. Everybody was trying to be Miss America, unwilling to go under any kind of criticism, and taking the safe answers. I thought I needed to do whatever I could to get attention.
I am vulnerable; that’s why I fight.
Skinny girls look good in clothes, but fit chicks look good naked.
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.
I don’t shy away from any questions. I’m not scared of any question. I’ll give you an answer. A lot of people are scared of having actual opinions out there. People are so scared of criticism I’m not scared of people disliking me.
No one is easy until you actually beat them.
To be a fighter, you have to be passionate. I have so much passion, it’s hard to hold it all in. That passion escapes as tears from my eyes, sweat from my pores, blood from my veins.
I’ve coached doing judo, but I’ve never coached MMA. I’ll have my own coach with me to help me along the way and I can’t really fail with him by my side, but I’m a little nervous.
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.
Complimenting yourself is the funnest form of manifestation.
I’m going to beat Alexis Davis then take a nap.
I kind of like to think of myself as the bad girl Olympian that would get kicked out of the Miss America pageant.