There have always been people who have written me off. They're not going away. I use that to motivate me. I'm driven to show them just how wrong they are.

If you work hard the fight's easy. If you don't work hard then the fight's hard.

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.

I think that going on any reality show is not good for your mental health because you behave differently when you are being watched, and you constantly have an extra bit of awareness of what's going on all the time.

I try not to get caught up on how cool I am. That way nothing ever gets done. I'm always thinking about what I haven't done.

As an athlete you're taught to be selfish. When I'm training, it's usually all about me.

When I looked at the state of women's MMA, what I saw was that it was missing rivalries or anything theatrical about it. Everybody was trying to be Miss America, unwilling to go under any kind of criticism, and taking the safe answers. I thought I needed to do whatever I could to get attention.