Quotes from Gina Carano

My last fight wasn't the way I wanted it to go so there is a hole there; don't count me out.

I know I'm always rooting for the underdog in a fight, and I love to be constantly surprised.

Fighting is my career, it's what I love to do, but I am taking offers and trying to expand because the more I expand myself, the more valuable I become to promoters.

It's a very big deal to me to remain the same person because I know all of this is going to be gone one day and I'm just going to have myself.

When I enjoy doing something, I don't mind if it hurts.

On 'American Gladiators,' I got to pummel a lot of people off a pyramid with a giant Q-tip. It was so much fun to wrestle people with no risk of getting knocked out or choked out.

I think I came up in fighting in a really technical way. If you've ever seen my fights, you know I love distance, I love technique.

I love it. It's something I can do that makes everything else disappear.

There's so much I want to do. I love emotions, I love drama, I love comedy and I also want to take action up to another level, I love comics.

I am always training because I love it.

I was always bigger than the other girls. My sisters are very, very beautiful and very skinny, and I've always had a more muscular body. So I grew up with a different mentality.

My first love is MMA... it's something that I did because it made me feel good.

You want to get better even after people smash you down. You want to be better than you were before.

I think there's a part in each one of us that wants the impossible to happen, and that's what surprises are.

People want to put you in the box, and you just have to fight past their preconceived notions.

I definitely don't want to be one of those athletes who turns into a cheesy actress.

Sometimes, you get portrayed the way you don't want to be portrayed.

If a good visionary wants to jump on board with that and I see their vision correctly and I like it and I like the script, I would absolutely do it but I have to read the script first.

Of course, fighting is not going to be as graceful as movie fighting. I don't like it to be ugly and I don't like it to be one big brawl or people clobbering each other.

The ultimate first date? Something that is completely out of the ordinary - go crazy, because first dates are always a little awkward, so do something a little extreme.

I wake up every morning and I surprise myself. I wake up to a new me.

My knowledge of video games ends with Nintendo 'Mario Bros.'

The guys I date always want to test my strength and wrestle around. By the end, they're drenched in sweat.

Since I've started fighting it has taught me a lot about self respect, self confidence and self control.