The whole 'bad girl' thing allows me to mess up sometimes. And I have freedom to say more of what I want to.

I kind of like to think of myself as the bad girl Olympian that would get kicked out of the Miss America pageant.

The bigger my chest is, the more it gets in the way. It just creates space. It makes me much more efficient if I don't have so much in the way between me and my opponent.

Whenever people call me the first female this or that, it doesn't make it more special because no one in front of me wanted the same job. I've always wanted weird stuff and enjoyed things differently than other girls.

My first injury ever was a broken toe, and my mother made me run laps around the mat for the rest of the night. She said she wanted me to know that even if I was hurt, I was still fine.

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.

If I could have had everything exactly the way I wanted, this is how I would have written it down. Win all my fights in the first round, then go to the UFC and headline a show, and have it as a pay-per-view and at home. People's dreams don't come true like that.