Quotes from Cris Cyborg

A fighter has to be prepared for anyone, to train every day. That's what I learned at Chute Boxe.

When you're a true fighter, you fight everyone.

Who's the best MMA fighter of all times? I always left that for fans to decide.

Not a lot of girls can KO fighters. I KO all the girls.

Both fighters can't win in this sport, so you have to leave it in God's hands. Losing is not the end of the world. Losing is natural; the better-prepared athlete will win.

I'm the world champ at 145. Why do I have to go down a division? Of course I want to make the fights nice for the fans, but I don't want to do something to make my life terrible.

I'm open for big fights, and it would be my dream to make my division in the UFC.

I want to make great fights, emotional fights, for all my fans and everyone watching.

I think, as a professional, inside the cage you can fix anything.

Everybody has a game plan, but the plan changes after the first punch.

I like training hard. I like to punch the face. I like getting punched in the face.

I never turn down fights. Anybody who follows my career knows that I accept fights.

Holly Holm was a boxer for a long time, and Leslie Smith comes from muay thai. It's different. Holly is more defensive, while Leslie comes forward.

Who inside MMA that's a champion goes to fight Muay Thai? Nobody. But I love competing.

I love striking, but MMA and Muay Thai are different.

I never hated Ronda. She's always talked about me; she did that to promote herself because when she started, nobody knew her, and she talked about me for people to know who she is. And she opened the doors for women's MMA.

I love training - I train a lot - but for 140, it's worse. You have to run every day. I ran six miles in the morning, six miles at night and train MMA and other arts, too. It's a lot of work, a lot of work.

If I make 140, I sacrifice a lot of things in my life: my diet, my training, my thyroid. It's insane to make 140.

Obviously I'm going to have haters.

Man, I got to say I love my haters because they challenge myself... it challenges me. It challenges me to be better. It challenges me to show who I am and that I deserve to be who I am.

What wins a fight is training hard, working hard, and that's what I do: Train hard every time. Being pretty or not is not the point.

I'm a two-time world champion in jiu-jitsu. I can try to submit you.

As a World Champion, it is important that you face the #1 contender. That is what makes it sport and not entertainment; otherwise, what are the girls fighting at 145 lbs. training to work towards if they know they will never be given a title shot, even if they become the best in the world?

If I can make a superfight so when I finish my career I can say, 'You remember this fight with Ronda, with Holly Holm,' something nice that I can talk about with my kids or my friends - I'm open to make superfights.