Quotes from Shayna Baszler

I love rock and roll and loved getting on wrestling mats since I was six, and I have never been ashamed of it.

Cris Cyborg is one of the best in the world, and there is no shame in losing to her.

It's not like I was saying, 'Oh, I want to make it to the UFC one day,' because the sport wasn't big enough then that a guy could have this as his job.

You know how you defeat chaos? You suck the air out of it and put it to sleep.

Because I've been around the MMA block a little bit, I'm at a point now where I just want bodies to beat up. I'm past the point in my career where I'm picking and choosing.

'Final Fantasy VII' is my favorite video game, and I had a conversation on Up Up Down Down, and I don't wanna say who is my favorite character, but my default would be Sephiroth.

I do a lot of crazy stuff. People that have watched me know my grappling game is of the regular map that you'd see in a jiu-jitsu class.

I spent so many years in MMA waving the banner for pro wrestling, telling fighters they had to be more entertaining.

It's weird how America works. Healthy food costs way more than crap.

Catch wrestling is pro wrestling, if you look at the ground moves and the rule set. It's just about learning the art of it for yourself.

I discover a lot of things on my own.

I have known, for me, that my fight in 'The Ultimate Fighter' can't be the way I went out.

Anyone who is friends with a fighter or lives with a fighter, you know that a fighter cutting weight is on edge.

I can't tell you how many fights I had where I had to pay to go fight. It was a lot of them.

Waving the banner of my coaches is a heavy flag to wield, so it's something I take very serious.

Look at something like boxing. People know that some fights are fixed, but nobody looks at a boxing match and automatically assumes it's fake.

I've fought on some big cards. I've fought in some big arenas, on televised cards, pay-per-view cards, whatever.

I've already done enough to prove myself. Win or lose, I think I've done enough to cement my name in the history of this sport. So for me, it's more like I have to win just for an opportunity to get on the mic and say all that.

I've played basketball, and I've stood at the free-throw line with a tie game and 0.2 seconds left. But there is no feeling in the world like being in that ring when they close it up and ask, 'Are you ready?'

I've always said the thing about MMA that a lot of fighters don't understand is people care more about the story, about why a fight's happening, than the actual fight.

Look, it doesn't matter who you put in front of me or how many girls out of that locker room you want to throw at me. I'm taking them all out - and never losing this title.

If I could have had the opportunity to be a full-time fighter while I was one of the best in the world, what could I have done then?

Who says what is the right way and what isn't? That is some imagined social construct that people made up to feel okay about being average.

I'm a catch wrestler, so I used catch wrestling in Mixed Martial Arts.