Quotes from Rose Namajunas

I think it's important to inspire other people to try and do things that people discourage you to do.

I think there's a lot of mental instability in this whole country.

Of course, fighting is one of the most emotional things that you can possibly do. You have to constantly deal with your emotions, especially myself. I have so many that that's where I get my energy from. But it's a matter of controlling them, and yeah, I just don't let nothing affect me.

Mixed martial arts - there's just been a lot of trash talking and things like that. People, I feel like, aren't really being true to themselves or being honest. I don't know, maybe that's what they feel they need to do to entertain things.

I'm like a tree. My leaves might change color, but my roots are the same.

That Dutch style of kickboxing, that's great. That's hard. It's very intimidating to stand across from, but you know it's very rhythmic on the beat. It's just something: It looks scary, but it's nothing to be scared of.

When they asked us what we wanted to be when we grow up, in kindergarten, I always said I wanted to be a farmer.

Your mind is just like your body. It's a muscle you can train and get better at.

I love my 303 ladies. We go hard here, you know - we're fierce!

When I'm totally in tune with myself, and I'm flowing, it don't matter who I'm fighting; that's just a problem for anybody.

I come from a place of lots of turmoil.

Any mistakes that I make is an investment in my future.

I think we have a great opportunity as fighters and athletes to be good role models. I'm by no means perfect, but I think we can try.

There's a lot around us that we can't control, but my body, my mind, and my soul are pretty much the only things that I can.

I live in a very nice neighborhood. There's nothing that really goes on around here.

I love to learn, and that's the really cool thing about martial arts - you're always learning new things.

I want to encourage people to be nicer to each other, to be nicer to themselves.

It's great that mixed martial arts allows people to still be in touch with their animal side and duke it out in a cage, but I think it's important: we're still nurturing beings, and we should still have compassion for each other.

All I can control is myself and just keep having a positive attitude.

You just keep a positive attitude no matter what comes in your way – challenges, roadblocks – don't let it faze you, and you can overcome anything.

People are gonna go up and down and people are gonna come in and out of this sport.

That's what I want to do when I finish fighting - build urban farms and learn how to become a farmer, because that's what I wanted to be when I was a little girl.

It's really nice to know hard work does pay off.

I've done taekwondo striking my entire life.