Quotes from Fallon Fox

Winning a pro tournament is another step toward getting fights against higher-ranked opponents.

I see similarities between Jackie Robinson and myself.

Where I came from, it was more shocking to be an atheist than to be transgender.

I'm a legitimate fighter who trained for years for this and I'm good, but suddenly, just because I'm a transgender woman, I fall into the category of 'freak show.'

Transgender women especially feel like we have to fit the binary system to a T in order to not be recognized as trans.

It took me about a year to understand and to feel the support from the transgender community.

I consider myself a woman. I happen to fall into the transgender category, but I rather describe myself as a woman first.

I don't believe that a transgender fighter should have to disclose her personal medical history to other female fighters before they fight.

MMA is the most dangerous sport there is for a transgender, with all the body contact, I know that.

You're brought up not to hit girls, that it's the worst sin, and that's what I do. But you know, gender is the last thing I think about when I'm fighting. It's the one situation where I don't think of gender at all.

Media is set up to give information to the people - at least that's what it says. But we all know in the U.S. that media is a capitalistic system, people are getting paid to write things, they have bosses and editors, and they have bosses, and they put pressure on people to write intriguing stories that catch the eye.

It's hard because the phrase 'woman trapped in a man's body' is thrown around a lot, but that's like shorthand. It's deeper than that. There's so much more to it.

Getting choked out feels a lot better than getting knocked out.

Right after I got out of the military, I realized that I wasn't surrounded by men all of the time. I started behaving - and outwardly - how I truly felt inside. And I decided that it would be a good idea if I transitioned.

I expected that someone was going to out me; you just can't go through life with a microscope on your career without someone delving into your past a little bit.

I'm the first transsexual fighter in MMA. Like, ever. It's always going to be part of the narrative, but I'll deal with it. I'll try my best to use it to my advantage.

For the rest of my life, my testosterone levels will remain underneath women who were born with female anatomy. There's no advantage I could ever get by not taking estrogen. Which I'm not doing, I'm just saying that's a fact, so people should realize that. Which, I don't think most people understand.

These past six years, people have seen me as a woman, not a transsexual. People in the gym, people I train with, it's been great, it's been awesome. I'm just a woman to them. I don't want that to go away. It's unfortunate that it has to.

My role models are every single woman that steps inside of the cage - inside of an octagon, inside a ring, or on a mat - and proves to themselves and to others that they can do what they need to do. Those are my heroes. Those are my sheroes. Those are the people that I look up to.

I break people's faces. I break their arms. I break their legs. That's a part of the sport. That's my job. That's the job of the opponent who's trying to do the same thing to me.

If the UFC would listen to reason on transgendered athletes, it could help change the sport for the better.