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Where is women's sports prominently displayed with the men? Tennis is the only thing I can think of.
I'm the champion for a reason. 
Even if they don't know it, everyone has the instinct to survive. 
I like quoting 'Lord of the Rings': 'My list of allies grows thin! My list of enemies grows long!' 
Strong and healthy is the new sexy. 
Success is the result of hard work, busting your ass every day for years on end without cutting corners or taking shortcuts. 
I just like when a guy dresses for comfort, to be honest. If he takes longer to get ready than I do, that's a deal breaker. 
There's no way to recover after tarnishing an undefeated record. 
Believe me, there's nothing I would like to do more than disappear for a while. 
I just want to tailgate, drink beer, and hang out in the middle of nowhere in a pick-up truck. That's my ideal date. 
If I can represent that body type of women that isn't represented so much in media, then I'd be happy to do that. 
I am vulnerable; that's why I fight. 
Don't doubt, don't stop ... The only 2 things that can stop you is to stop working and start doubting. 
Being an athlete, you try to get protein. 
I think that Floyd Mayweather is the best boxer that's ever lived; like actual technical boxer. 
No one is easy until you actually beat them. 
Reality TV is set up to make people entertaining. A good person with values and principles is not good television. 
I had to learn to take my time in MMA, and I was just able to keep a clear head. 
Even before I was a fighter, I was a daddy's girl. 
It is one thing to fight other people, but fighting yourself is different. If you're fighting yourself, who wins? Who loses? 
One thing that I learned from judo ... Maximum efficiency and minimum effort. 
If you ever wanna be motivated, go try and be homeless for a day and that will just light a fire under your butt like none other. 
I might not have had the tools at my disposal that my opponents had, but I created advantages of my own. 
I'm going to beat Alexis Davis then take a nap 
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. 
Don't focus on what you can't do. Focus on what you can. 
Bartending took the romanticism out of drinking. 
The moment you stop viewing your opponent as a threat is the moment you leave yourself open to getting beat. 
I'm the biggest draw in the sport, and I'm a woman. 
Confidence is the number one thing I find attractive. 
One of the greatest days of my life was when I came to understand that other people's approval and my happiness were not related. 
Life is a fight from the minute you take your first breath to the moment you exhale your last. 
A loss leads to victory, being fired leads to a dream job..I find comfort in believing that good things can grow out of tragedy. 
Fear of failure is always a driver but the thirst for more is a good one too ... So I think you need a little bit of both. 
Complimenting yourself is the funnest form of manifestation. 
The thing that gets me up in the morning is that I'm really not ready to see someone that I know I can beat holding my belt. 
I knew I would make something of myself. I just had to decide what that was going to be. 
If you work hard the fight's easy. If you don't work hard then the fight's hard. 
I am pretty much gluten-free; I barely ever eat bread, and the only dairy I eat is Greek yogurt and goat cheese. 
I'm the most dangerous unarmed women in the world, I've prepared my entire life to be that way. 
Winning is a bitch, but revenge is a motherfucker. 
Mine's going to be the best book tour that ever happened! 
Athletes who dope don't believe in themselves. 
Skinny girls look good in clothes, but fit chicks look good naked 
For girls, it raises your testosterone, so I try to have as much sex as possible before I fight. 
I'm selling a product, and I have to be out there; I don't have the option not to be. 
REFUSE TO ACCEPT ANY OTHER REALITY 
I will never be OK with losing, but losing in the wrong way, losing with regret, can take your pride away. I've never chosen to lose that way. 
People call me a whole lot of things, but above anything else, I'm a fighter, and it's going to be hard to accept an identity without that. 
The confusing thing is we now live in a society where it's not illegal to be an asshole, but it's illegal to slap one. 
To win, you have to be willing to die. 