Quotes About MMA

I think they need to start doing cageside weigh-ins again. I think that's the best way to go if you really want to see some difference. Cageside weigh-ins; I guarantee you won't see people cutting more than five to eight pounds, and they'll be fighting closer to their natural weight class.

I had just come off a win in Invicta, then a couple of days later, Dana called to welcome me to UFC and tell me this was how they were introducing a whole new weight class. My mind was blown.

MMA fighters are said to be some of the best athletes in the world. My plan at the age of 47 is to show the world I am still one of the best athletes as well.

I'm very good at submissions from the ground. I have good takedowns and good striking, so I'm pretty well-rounded.

Andrey Koreshkov is not well-rounded. He's been taken down and mounted and has his back taken by Lyman Good, which tells me he's a terrible grappler. He isn't well rounded. He's a good striker, but that's it.

The overall goal is to be a well-rounded fighter. It's to be the heavyweight Jon Jones. It's to be Cain Velasquez.

Fighting is not what I do - it's who I am. It's what I was meant to do, what I was meant to be. I knew that right after my first MMA practice.

I think the healthier Bellator can be, the better it is for the entire sport, especially the athletes who - let's face it - need to be paid more. They need the opportunity to negotiate and have an option. Bellator definitely presents that.

I'm not the prettiest. I'm not the best, but I win and that's all that matters in the UFC.

When I dropped Daniel Cormier I definitely tried to finish him off.

When I'm feeling comfortable at home, confident in my day-to-day, being healthy and being the best person I can be, MMA is easy.

I'm excited to see Jake Hager debut for Bellator in 2018. When I heard he was seriously interested in competing in MMA, and when you look at what he did at the collegiate level, I was very interested in having him on our roster.

I definitely want to defend my 145 belt.

My main goal for taking up acting as a profession was to show that sport or MMA teaches you life skills that can be applied to any profession in the world.

When I was leaving college, getting ready to graduate with a degree in finance, I had job interviews for months and months - and nothing really was moving like a real opportunity. Meanwhile, a lot of my wrestling teammates at Oklahoma had started getting into MMA training.

Mixed Martial Arts is a dangerous practice that could result in injuries and loss of life.

Boxing, mixed martial arts and tennis are the hardest sports to train for.

For many many years, the MMA world shunned on the pro wrestling world. They shunned on us for getting action figures and whatnot.

Machida always has his elusiveness and whatnot and Shogun has the tools to beat him.

I mean, I've had fights with random guys, I drove to fights by myself cutting weight, no corners whatsoever. So I've had a very interesting MMA journey.

Melvin Guillard went to a split decision with me, he left the third round in a wheelchair. He did not walk to the back - he left in a wheelchair.

Everybody knows how to get prepared for an MMA fight. Everybody knows what the other person is going to do. Whereas when I did it, MMA was really style against style. Things you hadn't seen before, you'd see for the first time. People didn't know how to train properly for it, and the coaching wasn't there yet, either.

Whereas there's more of a learning curb with MMA, kickboxing is pretty easy to understand and has no geographical boundaries.

In terms of career options, I didn't think about MMA at all. I don't know if I really thought it was a career path for many women. For someone like me, even in my prime, it wasn't something I really considered.