Jessica Andrade

“After I beat Rose and won the belt, I heard too many comments along the lines of 'Oh, that was luck.' You think that doesn't get to you?”

“The day I retire, I want other women to look at me and say: 'Man, Jessica was awesome, funny and a lesbian. She threw so many punches and brought us lots of joy.'”

“Eating healthy food, a lot of things will change for the best.”

“I will respect anyone who thinks differently, but I know what I have in my heart and only God can judge me. If everybody took care of their own lives only we would have less prejudice in this world.”

“I'm poor just like everybody else. If someone kidnaps me, they're getting nothing but a candy, a gum.”

“Joanna is a nice person. She helped me a lot before my fights at bantamweight.”

“Everybody is good at something.”

“Meeting Marta, who she is as a person, and hanging out with her, seeing her watch my fight, screaming and cheering for me, being proud of me the same way I am proud of her, that's priceless. It was really cool. I never imagined that.”

“What's the point of hitting pads, landing 10,000 punches, and then landing punches that are soft as feathers in the fight? I hit hard.”

“I used to eat a lot of pasta and cookies, things like that. I really eat a lot. I'd eat everything if you let me.”

“It's sad that we have to sell our training gear, things we get in fights that are a good memory of what we had there, but we'll get new stuff later.”

“When it's time to fight, we're professionals. It's our jobs and careers. Respect must always exist.”

“We have coaches to pay, trainers, different sparring partners. There's a cost.”

“Women's MMA has evolved a lot.”

“I'm used to compete at 135 pounds, and I know I will always be shorter than my opponents.”

“To beat Shevchenko, you'd have to close the distance and work with strikes close to the cage to take away her energy, her strength, and work with the ground and pound or something like that.”

“I have great cardio.”

“If Ronda isn't well-trained, someone will take her title home.”

“We only get paid when we fight, and we have to save money until the next fight.”

“When I saw it was possible and I would fight well... I realized that I would have more opportunities at 115, would be better ranked and put on better fights, I spoke with my coach and we decided to do it.”