A biography for Mackenzie Dernhasn’t been written yet.
“We go through things all the time. We're regular people. We just fight for a living.”
“The path to the belt, I'm trying to make it as clear as possible.”
“Angela Hill is a dangerous girl because she's experienced.”
“I'm very hard on myself. I'm always trying to get things as good as possible.”
“Judo, people in MMA didn't respect judo so much, you didn't see too many judo fighters in MMA.”
“I feel like I've been an athlete my whole life and I don't want to get burnt out. I want to have a family and babies one day.”
“A happy fighter, a happy athlete, that's the best camp, when you're happy with what you're doing and not having a different battle in your mind, and then a battle in the fight and then a battle in the family with the coaches, that's not normal.”
“I just need to win the round. If you do that each round you win the fight.”
“I think I was able to show that I can be someone that gets better and better, when before people used to say, 'Oh, just take Mackenzie out of the first round, pull her into deep waters and you'll do good.' I think that's the strategy people use to fight me - win on points, go to the judges, go the three rounds.”
“100 percent, I can connect and be inspired by Charles 'Do Bronx.'”
“You see men, if men are pretty in people's opinion, men make fun of them, 'He's not that good.' But women, no, they say, 'Let's all watch her fight because she's beautiful.' We go through that, you have to prove yourself even more.”
“In the fight, when you're thinking, you're late. You're already one second late. You need to be ahead. You always need to be ahead, ahead, ahead.”
“During my pregnancy, I didn't train at all. I wanted to take advantage of those nine months and enjoy the time off with my growing family.”
“I'm more of a nice girl.”
“If I can get girls to do martial arts, to break that taboo that we're going to be manly, you won't lose who you are. You can be whoever you want to be. It won't change who you are just because you fight.”
“I tore my meniscus.”
“I want to be a champion that everybody remembers, one that people like to pay to watch.”
“In my opinion the best jiu-jitsu in the UFC is Charles 'Do Bronx.' Because of his jiu-jitsu in MMA. In jiu-jitsu, he wasn't a black belt world champion or ADCC world champion or anything so it wasn't like in the jiu-jitsu world he's the most famous guy in jiu-jitsu but in MMA, for me, he has the best jiu-jitsu in MMA.”
“I think people think I'm the most dangerous in the beginning. But we've been training for five rounds for a couple fights.”
“Balancing being a new mom and being in fight camp for a fight is such a crazy experience.”