Quotes from Rose Namajunas

I guess I'm crazy. If everything was easy-peasy and green lights all the time, it'd be kind of boring.

What's the point of being the best in the world if you scratch and claw your way to the top, and you push everybody down instead of lifting everybody else up with you?

I don't necessarily know about the rankings. I always like to look at it as, it's the person with the belt, and it's everybody else.

I feel like I can go all the way for the belt and hold it awhile.

I didn't need the belt to validate me.

I've got Pat 'HD' Barry in my corner.

All I can do is make sure I show up to fight, and then they have no choice but to pay me.

In order to survive, I created a certain type of aura about myself that I was the baddest chick walking down the street. Anytime somebody underestimates me, Thug Rose comes out.

A lot of times, my best friend was my dog.

I'm successful every day because I look in the mirror, and I'm happy with who I am.

If I'm not fighting for a good reason, then your personal life starts to get messy, and it's like, 'What am I doing this for?'

I wanna fight the best.

2016 was really challenging for me. I don't know what it was.

It's pretty cool to be called a champion.

No one is perfect but without honesty you've got nothing.

I learned that love is a much more sustainable energy to draw on than hate.

It takes a lot of courage in that cage no matter who you are.

The learning curve, and the things that you have to adapt to on a daily basis in the UFC, is pretty crazy. It's a huge burden for anybody to have: not just the fighting itself but learning how to deal with the other responsibilities.

Nobody's the same. So, I think that people benefit in different things than others.

There's pros and cons to everything, and I choose to look at the positives.

My dream is to be a farmer myself, but also to provide opportunities to others who don't have the land or the resources, in order to grow food themselves and teach them how to do it.

I think that's what makes me so great of a fighter. I'm crazy as hell. And fighting helps me with that.

We're not just fighters, we're entertainers.

I feel like we have a duty as fighters to try and be a better example.