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

To be a fighter, you have to be passionate. I have so much passion, it's hard to hold it all in. That passion escapes as tears from my eyes, sweat from my pores, blood from my veins.

If there's a camera on me or off me, it's roughly the same, just a lot less energy.

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.

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.

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

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.