Quotes from Shayna Baszler

I think, at every professional wrestler's heart, there's a fan.

If you follow my MMA career, I've always been the pro wrestler of women's MMA, coming out with a guitar, saying crazy things on interviews, promos and such.

I think seeing me cross over to pro wrestling and having fun - I get up in the morning, and I'm not a morning person. My alarm goes off, and I'm back out and training again.

One of the reasons I started pursuing MMA was for all the similarities to pro wrestling that it has.

If you do your history, pro wrestling is just the worked version of what MMA is.

I have always had a desire to prove people that looked past me wrong, whether it was because I was a female trying to wrestle or fight in MMA or because I grew up on the wrong side of town.

WWE is something I've had my eye on.

Training with Billy Robinson is just like any martial artist who would go to the old master of the art. He's so knowledgeable.

It's not like I'm training every day by doing an avalanche suplex off the top turnbuckle.

Ronda's a natural athlete. Just learning a different rule set and bringing what she has from MMA would be the same: does her judo translate to MMA, will her MMA translate to pro wrestling? She's been pretty successful one way, and I think she'll be pretty successful the other way.

It's hard to simulate the things that I do.

It's almost going to sound like a jerk thing to say, but it's so easy to manipulate the fans to love us or hate us. It's fun. It makes it really fun.

I think that Ronda and I had similar paths in MMA; she became a bigger star than I ever was, but a similar thing happened, where the backlash from the fans happened after you slip up once kind of makes you fall out of love with it.

Don't talk to me about how I haven't done anything to prove myself. I'm not worth anything. Like, seriously, do your history first, then come up with something smarter than things that are blatantly not true.

In MMA, you're trained to tune the audience out. In sports entertainment, you're trained to feed off what the audience is thinking and feeling.

I didn't get into MMA because I wanted to be UFC champion. That wasn't my motivation.

I'm looking forward to getting out there and twisting limbs off and breaking bodies.

I had a little gut check, and ultimately, I grew up as far as my MMA mentality and am more mature now.

I've faced the undefeated, young up-and-comers, everybody counting me out before, on a big card, with big lights, TV.

In sports entertainment, you can take your time and digest what's going on along with the audience.

Normally, when a fighter gets challenged, they answer.

It's interesting because my Mixed Martial Arts upbringing is less Brazilian jiu-jitsu, which is the traditional thing that people study.

One thing I've learned is that a lot of fans' knowledge starts and stops with the UFC.

I'm being more physical and aggressive while, at the same time, I'm not being overwhelmed by strong fighters like Sara McMann.