Quotes from Cat Zingano

I think the match up is one of the century and I have what it takes to take Cyborg down, if anyone does.

I took a trip to Thailand. I visited a bunch of different gyms that are places where I always wanted to train, and get technique and education from people who I really look up to.

Being strong, showing that you will see things through no matter what comes your way, that's what matters most to me.

I would love to fight Ronda for the belt. I would love to avenge my loss and fight her again for what that means to me. I don't know what it means to her, but to me, that's what it would look like for me in perfect world.

I walked into the gym not even knowing what jiu-jitsu or MMA and all that was. I was looking to lose baby weight after I had my son.

I've done what I could as far as getting physically healthy after my knee injury, and I've done what I could to get mentally healthy after losing my husband.

I feel like every catastrophe in our lives, you remember exactly where you were, what you were doing, who you were with, almost down to what you were wearing.

How I hurt my knee was doing something so minimal that it was a little worrisome. To try that motion and others again, after the injury and after surgery, made you worry a bit.

My first fight was incredible; it was surreal. I almost forgot I had to fight, I was so overcome with emotion. It was just an amazing experience.

The thing to me about this sport, all the fans, everyone that watches, everyone that has a career has had a bad day at work. If you have a project, you have a quota that you have to meet, you can screw up at it. At the end of the day, you get to go home to your family; you can bring your work home with you or not.

When I'm feeling comfortable at home, confident in my day-to-day, being healthy and being the best person I can be, MMA is easy.

To call myself a fighter is to be selfish at times. It makes me resent my opponent. That's motivation I can tap into.

When things are right and things are focused, it's a game to me, and I'm there just stalking and punching and grabbing and tearing people up.

When I fight, I don't think about being tired, I don't think about technique. I just try to break their will.

Life is going to present you with tons of problems, it's what you do about them that matters.

Half the reason I fight the way I fight is because of where I get my mind, and I'm very protective of the things that matter to me.

I'm an emotional fighter.

You can have a fight card full of male fights, but yet when that women's fight comes on, that's what people watch. They're super excited by it.

I think everyone has the desire in their life to be the best at something that touches them, that reaches them.

You can sit there and punch me in the head for three minutes straight, but I'm gonna figure it out. I always do. I just know that about myself.

I just put all my energy into me and focusing on what I'm going to do, and I'll go in there and do that right through the end of the fight until I get the job done.

I took my son to Thailand and really immersed myself in the stuff I wanted to learn and I wanted to improve on, and when I got a taste of that motivation and that inspiration as far as what I wanted to see my body do, I immediately was excited about it.

The first thing I usually do after a fight is apologize to my coaches because I didn't do one damn thing they told me to do.

With a lot of things in life, it's hard to do the right thing.