A biography for Liz Carmouchehasn’t been written yet.
“When my contract with the military was done, then I started following MMA.”
“I seek out people that are experts in their fields and see how I compare with them and if I can hold my own.”
“I took a lot from that Ronda fight. What that taught me was one - just how to manage my time.”
“My friends' parents who were in the Marines, they were the people I looked up to the most. I looked up to them as role models.”
“I don't believe in letting my words speak for me, I let my actions speak.”
“To be closeted for so long was so difficult.”
“Growing up I was always stronger than all the other kids. I wasn't allowed to play with the other girls because they were too weak. And I had to be careful with boys because I'd always be hitting them and I'd get into trouble for hurting them.”
“Physically, no disrespect to Ronda, but I don't think she has an advantage over anybody else. She's not physically stronger than any other opponent I've gone against.”
“As a champion, you are supposed to embody professionalism for the entire weight division.”
“I'm always brought in to be the loser and I'm OK with that.”
“I'm just not really meant to fight at 135.”
“When I watch fights, it's on YouTube.”
“The first time I got to really hit somebody in the face, that changed everything.”
“If I get a rematch with somebody, cool, but if they're not holding the belt, I really don't care.”
“To me, fighting in Strikeforce was a dream, like saying 'I want to be an astronaut and go to the moon.' You don't think that it's actually is going to happen, you just wish it.”
“Once I experienced that loss to Miesha, I wanted to get back in the cage and show that it was just a mistake.”
“A lot of people see M.M.A. as this violent cage fighting, and they don't see it as being two athletes who have put so much time and energy and focus into it.”
“There's a lot of hype surrounding Ronda and a lot of the girls she's fought fall for that Ronda hype and they're beaten before they go in. They freeze in front of her and she uses it to her advantage.”
“You can play the what-if game with anything in life. But everything happens for a reason.”
“I fell into a safety zone where I didn't want to risk losing my fighting life with the UFC, so I wanted to go the safe route instead of taking risk and being the fighter I've always been.”