For girls it raises your testosterone, so I try to have as much sex as possible before I fight actually. Not with like everybody, I don't put out like a Craigslist ad or anything, but if I got a steady I'm going to be like 'yo, fight time's coming up.

The kind of hope I'm talking about is the belief that something good will come. That everything you're going through and everything you've gone through will be worth the struggles and frustrations. The kind of hope I'm talking about is a deep belief that the world can be changed, that the impossible is possible.

The thing that gets me up in the morning is that I’m really not ready to see someone that I know I can beat holding my belt.

Sports Illustrated is very serious about their covers. They'll never say, like, 'Oh you got it.'

You have to fight because you can't count on anyone else fighting for you. And you have to fight for people who can't fight for themselves. To get anything of real value, you have to fight for it.

Life is a fight from the minute you take your first breath to the moment you exhale your last.

After I did the swimsuit issuе, I knew that I wanted to do it again.