A biography for Liz Carmouchehasn’t been written yet.
“After my time in the Marine Corps with 'don't ask, don't tell,' I didn't want to hide any more.”
“I've always said it and I always will, that my eye is always on that title. That's what I'm gunning for.”
“I was offered an opportunity to do the Sports Illustrated cover when they did the skin cover with Miesha Tate and Ronda Rousey. That to me was compromising my integrity of who I was and everything that I stand for.”
“There was a point when people didn't see the UFC as supporting the LGBT community or homosexuality. But by embracing me, the UFC showed that wasn't true and that it wanted to support the community as much as possible.”
“I'm my hardest critic, I expect the best of myself, I'm a perfectionist.”
“I kind of will over everything. There will be situations where like 'I refuse!'”
“When I joined the Marine Corps, you have to do a vocational test to get in, and I took the test, they were like, 'You did great. You can do anything you want to do.' I said, 'OK, I want to do this.' 'Except for that because you're a woman.'”
“If anything I love when I'm the underdog. It gives me an opportunity to fight back stronger and show people, 'Ok, if you want to be on the side of the other person, then I'm going to make them pay for that mistake. Their body is going to pay the cost for you choosing them.' So if anything, that always lights a fire for me.”
“To me, I feel like I play such small role in this life and this world.”
“I'm genuinely a flyweight.”
“I always train to do five rounds.”
“My best friend in the Marines, her name is Kim, said one day while we were in Iraq that homosexuals in the Forces should be put on the front line because they deserved to die. This was my best friend talking.”
“When I decided I wanted to fight, one biggest issue was just trying to find a gym where I could train. At that time, a lot of gyms wouldn't allow women to train there at all.”
“I've grown through the losses and all those lessons.”
“I hate taking breaks in my training. But I'm having to change that, and let my body heal.”
“I've always been a little powerhouse.”
“I'd rather take that chance and lose to someone who's the best in the world than beat someone nobody has ever heard of.”
“After the Ronda fight, I wasn't sure what the UFC held for me. I think coming out of that fight, I didn't know if losing that fight meant that I could get cut because I knew the rumors at the time was how easily fighters could get cut from the UFC.”
“Every day I wake up, and my goal is to be better than I was the day before.”
“I had zero interest in going to college. I used my GI Bill to help pay for training. I hated doing group projects or deal with people in the class who aren't paying attention. That made me go insane. I was looking for any way out. My sanity was fighting.”