Quotes About MMA

If you didn't watch Cris Cyborg vs. Felicia Spencer and just saw the 30-27 scorecards, you probably are thinking it wasn't a very close and/or entertaining fight. Wrong. Very wrong. I loved every second of that fight.

People like myself have been pushing, competing, and promoting female MMA for a long time, and to see the fans accept a female division in the UFC so quickly is vindication that all that hard work amounted to something.

The NFL has gone a long way to Disney-fy its image, but it's not Disney. It's the MMA. It's a violent, brutal human war, with rules. The same guy who says, 'I'm going to rob everybody,' is the same guy who would be successful in the NFL.

It's a fast-paced somewhat violent sport, but it's very much entertaining. And the greatest thing about mixed martial arts is that it transcends a lot of demographics.

A lot of people see M.M.A. as this violent cage fighting, and they don't see it as being two athletes who have put so much time and energy and focus into it.

I don't like going to 155; I do it because everyone else does.

MMA is my true talent and what I excel at the most.

I think Rory MacDonald is a great striker, I think Jorge Masvidal is an excellent striker.

MMA has been in U.S. for the past 10 years. I went to Sanjay Dutt and said 'I want to launch this sport.' He said 'I also watch it every night... let's go and do it.'

Legacy does matter to me, and I want to leave a good one in MMA.

I think the legacy Ronda leaves behind is that she changed women's MMA.

The ground game of Derrick Lewis isn't that good.

I'm almost certain that no one at featherweight or lightweight wants to go to the ground with me.

Women's MMA has come a really long way. People look forward to us fighting, and they get excited.

I'm in this sport to change my life. I'm in this sport to change my parents' lives and the loved ones around me. That's really what I care about. And I can't do that if they keep putting me on these prelims.

Luke Rockhold would be a good payday.

The guys at Team Alpha Male, they're my friends. I have a lot of respect for those guys.

I'm training at everything. Jiu-Jitsu, wrestling, striking. Everything. I think to be in the UFC, you have to be well rounded at everything. That's the goal.