Top 100 Ronda Rousey Quotes
#1. 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.
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#2. I don't feel the need to be the hot chick every second of the day. I like to be able to surprise people when I turn it on. I want it to be like the movie 'She's All That' when they unveil her.
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#3. That's the thing I'm worst at: resting. I have to be forced to do it. Sometimes I think of loopholes. 'Oh, I'm just going for a walk, up a dune that's 45 degrees, but I'm walking, so it's not a workout.'
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#5. Even before I was a fighter, I was a daddy's girl.
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#6. My locker room is serious. It is quiet. No one smiles. I don't like people telling jokes in my locker room. Now is not a time to tell jokes. From the minute we leave my hotel room, do not fuck around. The time for fucking around is over. Some serious shit is about to happen.
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#7. Most people get scared away from having an opinion. It's not so much my opinions everybody relates to, it's that I don't care about being punished for it.
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#8. I'm the champion because I'm the best in every area.
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#9. Boxing great Mike Tyson said "a happy fighter is a dangerous fighter." I think he's right.
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#10. Reality TV is set up to make people entertaining. A good person with values and principles is not good television.
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#11. 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.
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#12. I have a candle permanently on my Jacuzzi because I love me some candles.
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#13. I'm a terrible singer, but I'm not shy about it. I'm shy about dancing.
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#14. The way that I like to fight is I like to paint myself into a corner and so the only way is for me to win.
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#15. I go to bed every night thinking about all the possible ways that I can succeed.
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#17. In MMA it's a lot less intimidating because it's not like you get one shot at a title every four years. You get a title shot every couple of months ... With the Olympics, you don't always have this, so there is so much more pressure involved.
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#18. How you feel is entirely in your mind. Your mind has nothing to do with your environment. It has nothing to do with anyone around you. It is entirely your decision.
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#19. I go mainly by the Dolce diet. It is a little hard to describe: it's not really a diet but more of a lifestyle. I eat throughout the day; I have three meals and two snacks, and it changes according to what I need at the time.
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#20. If you work hard the fight's easy. If you don't work hard then the fight's hard.
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#21. I'm kind of like a middle mix between a warrior diet and a Paleo diet, so I only eat once a day and it's at night - so kind of like interval fasting. But I eat until I'm full, I eat as much as I want, and I really don't eat anything that you couldn't find, you know, 10,000 years ago.
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#22. Even though I was painted, even though I had on seven layers of paint - to the point that I got a tan, it was as thick as a fabric - I think I felt the most naked because I couldn't cover myself at all. I didn't have to, so I had to be much more open and relaxed.
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#23. Somehow, people act like I have no competition, but the thing is, the competition is so good that it forces me to be better than I even thought was possible.
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#24. 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.
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#26. A lot of my best clothes I buy at photo shoots because I don't have time to shop.
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#27. One thing that I learned from judo ... Maximum efficiency and minimum effort.
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#28. You go through every single inch of the emotional spectrum on fight week. You're the most stressed out you've ever been, you're the most pressured you've ever been, you're the happiest you've ever been - it's hard. It's exhausting.
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#30. Active patience is taking the time to set something up correctly.
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#31. I got a lot of body paint on me in a short period of time. I would definitely do it again because Joann [Gair] is so brilliant, but I would definitely need, like, a good long break for it.
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#32. Skinny girls look good in clothes, but fit chicks look good naked
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#33. For girls, it raises your testosterone, so I try to have as much sex as possible before I fight.
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#34. If there's a camera on me or off me, it's roughly the same, just a lot less energy.
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#35. Sports Illustrated is very serious about their covers. They'll never say, like, 'Oh you got it.'
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#36. I grew up with a lot of body image issues - not just about my weight, but I would always see these perfect orb, domed boobs on television, and think, "Mine don't look like that." I thought there was something wrong with me.
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#37. At the end of the day, I can't curl up with people's opinions.
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#38. Do I ever get tired of being the first female everything? Not really, I just happened to be in a position where the job that I wanted was not really there for me. I had to create an opportunity instead of waiting for an opportunity.
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#39. Judo was one of those sports where they give you guidelines but then try to tell you to develop your own style.
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#40. I respect Georges St. Pierre as a businessman and an athlete. I don't have anything against him personally. But he's not the kind of fighter I like watching.
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#41. Kids don't like what they don't understand, and judo was always my social outlet. I always felt really socially awkward, and I couldn't speak very well when I was younger. When I was doing judo, it was something that I could understand and someplace where I felt that I belonged and fit in.
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#44. Once you give them the power to tell you you're great, you've also given them the power to tell you you're unworthy. Once you start caring about people's opinions of you, you give up control.
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#45. At home, I watch fights and documentaries - that's it. If it's not about the birth and death of stars, 'Frozen Planet,' or someone getting punched in the face, I'm probably not watching it.
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#46. My one fear is failure and that's one fear I have to face all the time. Yes, it's uncomfortable to be scared but I'm finally comfortable being uncomfortable.
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#47. I don't think politicians should be allowed to take money for their campaigns from outside interests.
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#48. 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.
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#49. Complimenting yourself is the funnest form of manifestation.
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#50. 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.
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#51. I always say you have to be willing to get your heart broken.
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#52. I like to be part of the change I want to see in the world. Not being afraid of criticism is actually a big advantage.
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#53. I like quoting 'Lord of the Rings': 'My list of allies grows thin! My list of enemies grows long!'
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#54. The bigger my chest is, the more it gets in the way. It just creates space. It makes me much more efficient if I don't have so much in the way between me and my opponent.
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#56. I am not looking to escape the pressure. I am embracing it. Pressure is what builds up in the chamber behind a bullet before it explodes out of the gun.
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#57. My father would say, 'Ronnie, you're going to be someone special. Whatever it is that you want to do, you're going to be the best in the world at it.'
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#58. There's no way to recover after tarnishing an undefeated record.
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#59. Fighting is not a man thing, it's a human thing.
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#60. I grew up as an athlete doing judo, so I didn't really have a conventional, feminine body type.
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#61. I fight with pizazz. It's a different sound from everyone else. It's the sound of pizazz.
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#62. I thought that I was mutant somehow. I eventually realized that I have a very natural look, and that's what God gave me, and I'm proud of it. It was kind of a way for me to get past that as well.
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#63. They're going to say that because no one else has ever done something, that it can't be done. You have to be crazy enough to believe that you are the one person in the history of the world who can create that change or accomplish that dream.
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#64. I was just a little three-year-old kid, and I loved Hulk Hogan. And when you're a three-year-old kid, you don't list off the reasons. I was just drawn to him. He was always my favorite, even in the video games and everything like that. He was the one that I always remembered and liked the most.
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#65. At 150 pounds, I feel like I'm at my healthiest and my strongest and my most beautiful.
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#66. I'm going to beat Alexis Davis then take a nap
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#67. Confidence is the number one thing I find attractive.
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#68. 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.
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#69. People say to me all the time, 'You have no fear.' I tell them, 'No, that's not true. I'm scared all the time. You have to have fear in order to have courage. I'm a courageous person because I'm a scared person.'
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#70. I was always pushed to do that much more, and in the long run that made me more of an MMA fighter. My mom always told me that if I let it go to the judges, I'd lost. There was no way I was going to win a decision, so I had to find ways to finish the fight fast.
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#71. I'm a huge fan of wrestling, and I would like to see the position of women in the sport continue to improve, so if I can be a part of it, great.
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#72. I might not have had the tools at my disposal that my opponents had, but I created advantages of my own.
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#73. People can say I am a terrible role model because I swear all the time or that I fight people. Look, I don't want little girls to have the same ambitions as me. I want them to know that it is O.K. to be ambitious. I want them to know that it is O.K. to say whatever it is that is on their mind.
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#74. People say this all the time and everyone, like, nods their head and is like, 'Oh yeah, totally,' but no one ever does it, including myself. I can do better at it, is just drinking a lot of water, like a gallon and a half, two gallons a day, like, straight water all day.
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#75. When women say that going on publications directed at men is somehow demeaning, I don't think that's true. I think that's one really effective way to change the societal standard women are held to.
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#76. SOMEONE HAS TO BE THE BEST IN THE WORLD. WHY NOT YOU?
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#77. Making a change in your life is as easy as making a decision and acting on it. That's it.
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#79. Every chick I try to intimidate in a different way. You have to think about their personality. You have to think about what would get under that particular person's skin the most.
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#80. I think that going on any reality show is not good for your mental health because you behave differently when you are being watched, and you constantly have an extra bit of awareness of what's going on all the time.
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#81. 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.
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#82. It is one thing to fight other people, but fighting yourself is different. If you're fighting yourself, who wins? Who loses?
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#83. 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.
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#84. 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.
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#85. Success is the result of hard work, busting your ass every day for years on end without cutting corners or taking shortcuts.
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#86. I never aspired to be 2nd. I was taught ... you can do whatever you want in this world, so why not be the best in the world?
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#87. I might make an investment and lose some money, but that's something I can recover from.
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#88. 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.
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#89. Some people like to call me cocky or arrogant, but I just think 'how dare you assume I should think less of myself'
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#90. I'm really encouraged by the progress I've seen with what they're doing with the women in WWE, but I feel like there's a lot more than can be done.
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#91. I was in a weight-cutting sport, in judo, so I had to be a certain weight on a deadline. It kind of pushed me into having a really unhealthy relationship with food in my teens. I felt like if I wasn't exactly on weight, I wasn't good-looking.
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#92. I had a lot of trouble speaking as a kid. I didn't really speak in coherent sentences until I was, like, 6 years old. There was a long time where everybody was very worried, because my sisters were so advanced for their age, and I would barely talk.
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#93. Some girls sit around and watch 'Gossip Girl' together. Me and my girlfriends watch 'Raw' and 'SmackDown.'
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#94. See, for some reason, I feel like it's a victory if I wake up one minute before the alarm. It's like I'm in a contest with myself, with my foot kicking around until it wakes up the rest of my body. It's the stupidest thing. But it makes me feel like I've already won something.
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#95. I have to be out there to sell these fights; it's not because I really enjoy getting made up and going to work every day. It's cool, it's an awesome job, but it's still a job. I'm doing it because it helps me make a living and not because I'm so extremely vain that I want to see my face everywhere.
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#96. 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.
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#97. I love waking up to Sunday morning pancakes. The whole process of making them, just out in the kitchen together making pancakes on a Sunday morning; that's an experience every girl should have.
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#98. When you're doing something like body paint or a nude shoot, you're making yourself very vulnerable, and you're really trusting people to really take care of you and make sure everything is very professional.
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#99. I'm going to retire undefeated. I'll take everybody out one-by-one then go on my merry way
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#100. 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.
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