Top 100 Quotes About Ronda Rousey
#1. This past Halloween girls across the country dressed up as Ronda Rousey. That's because she's an amazing, beautiful, and powerful woman.
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#2. Slapping her palm against his wrist with lightening speed, she deflected the weapon before immobilizing his knife wielding hand with an excruciatingly painful armbar that would have made Ronda Rousey proud.
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#3. 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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#4. I'm not a full model like those other girls. Mostly I was surprised that I could hang.
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#5. 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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#6. 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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#7. A sleeper just waits and when the time is right, they come out and wow everyone. That's you, kiddo. Don't you worry.
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#9. Even before I was a fighter, I was a daddy's girl.
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#10. Bartending took the romanticism out of drinking.
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#11. 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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#12. 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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#13. I'm the champion because I'm the best in every area.
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#14. I want her to look at me. I want her to stare me in the eye. I want her to see that I have no fear. I want her to know she stands no chance. I want her to be scared. I want her to know she is going to lose.
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#15. My life is so active, and I'm fighting the whole day that I don't have any aggressiveness or any energy outside of fighting. I'm the most chill couch potato you could ever meet.
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#16. 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
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#17. Boxing great Mike Tyson said "a happy fighter is a dangerous fighter." I think he's right.
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#18. Reality TV is set up to make people entertaining. A good person with values and principles is not good television.
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#19. 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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#20. I have a candle permanently on my Jacuzzi because I love me some candles.
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#21. I get asked that a lot and I always go back to my mom's, 'No one has the right to beat you.' I take that to every venue that I'm in. She would say, 'Someone has to be the best in the world, why not you?' I always try to keep that in mind.
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#22. I've never had anything cold and wet touching my butthole before. That was quite the experience!
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#23. One of my mom's best lines is ... You're not training to be the best in the world, you're training to be the best in the world on your worst day.
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#24. Don't focus on what you can't do. Focus on what you can.
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#25. 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.
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#26. It's not my responsibility to make everything I say idiot-proof.
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#27. I'm a terrible singer, but I'm not shy about it. I'm shy about dancing.
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#29. 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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#30. If I could have had everything exactly the way I wanted, this is how I would have written it down. Win all my fights in the first round, then go to the UFC and headline a show, and have it as a pay-per-view and at home. People's dreams don't come true like that.
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#31. I go to bed every night thinking about all the possible ways that I can succeed.
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#32. My first injury ever was a broken toe, and my mother made me run laps around the mat for the rest of the night. She said she wanted me to know that even if I was hurt, I was still fine.
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#33. There's something so zen-like and grateful of just ripping a hot wing apart and getting it all over your face, and everyone's happy. I love that atmosphere.
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#35. 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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#36. 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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#37. 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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#38. There was a long time I had no job security, no options and no education.
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#39. If you work hard the fight's easy. If you don't work hard then the fight's hard.
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#40. I love Canadians. They are the coolest, nicest, most patriotic people, and they will support their countrymen no matter what, and I think that's commendable.
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#41. 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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#42. Judo taught me that I am capable of anything ... I can mentally push past anything and be victorious.
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#43. I think it's hilarious if people say that my body looks masculine.
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#44. I knew I would make something of myself. I just had to decide what that was going to be.
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#45. 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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#47. 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.
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#48. 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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#49. The moment you stop viewing your opponent as a threat is the moment you leave yourself open to getting beat.
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#50. 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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#52. I'm the most dangerous unarmed women in the world, I've prepared my entire life to be that way.
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#53. 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.
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#54. 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.
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#55. There is no history of anything happening until it does.
And then there is.
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#56. I'm living such a lucky and blessed life and I'm trying my best to deserve it.
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#57. The reaction has been amazing because there is no woman that could look at these covers and not be like, 'That's what I could look like,' or, 'I pretty much already look like one of these chicks.' It really makes beauty seem so much more attainable to people.
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#58. A lot of my best clothes I buy at photo shoots because I don't have time to shop.
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#59. Mine's going to be the best book tour that ever happened!
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#60. One thing that I learned from judo ... Maximum efficiency and minimum effort.
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#61. Believe me, there's nothing I would like to do more than disappear for a while.
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#62. 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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#64. Active patience is taking the time to set something up correctly.
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#65. 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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#66. Skinny girls look good in clothes, but fit chicks look good naked
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#67. For girls, it raises your testosterone, so I try to have as much sex as possible before I fight.
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#68. If there's a camera on me or off me, it's roughly the same, just a lot less energy.
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#69. It's your purpose to leave the world better than how you found it.
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#70. Sports Illustrated is very serious about their covers. They'll never say, like, 'Oh you got it.'
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#71. 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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#72. At the end of the day, I can't curl up with people's opinions.
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#73. 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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#74. Know when to explode and know when to relax
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#75. Winning is a bitch, but revenge is a motherfucker.
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#76. 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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#77. What I'm really looking to do is retire undefeated; I'm not sure when the right time to retire will be, but I know that I'm not done yet. Something still feels unfinished, and that's why I'm going to keep going.
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#78. 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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#79. 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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#81. When people say, "Oh you're so cocky. You're so arrogant," I feel like they're telling me that I think too highly of myself. My question for them is: "Who are you to tell me that I need to think less of myself?
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#82. If you can't dream big, ridiculous dreams, what's the point in dreaming at all?
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#85. 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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#86. I kind of like to think of myself as the bad girl Olympian that would get kicked out of the Miss America pageant.
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#87. Do not accept less than what you are capable of. Never expect more than you are capable of, but never accept less either.
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#88. 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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#89. 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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#90. I don't think politicians should be allowed to take money for their campaigns from outside interests.
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#91. After thirteen years, the American flag that had been placed on Dad's coffin at his funeral had been unfurled and was fluttering in the arms of my mother. My dad had always believed
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#92. 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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#93. Complimenting yourself is the funnest form of manifestation.
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#94. Where is women's sports prominently displayed with the men? Tennis is the only thing I can think of.
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#95. 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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#96. I always say you have to be willing to get your heart broken.
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#97. The Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue really sets the social standard for what people expect the perfect woman's body to look like, and a lot of those bodies usually look the same.
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#98. 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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#99. I like quoting 'Lord of the Rings': 'My list of allies grows thin! My list of enemies grows long!'
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#100. 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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