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“I did some really heavy, intensive clinics with Billy Robinson. Anyone that knows anything about Billy, he was a mean old dude! I survived training with him and Josh Barnett, right in the same vein, my head coach for, like, 12 years.”
“I can't tell you how many fights I had where I had to pay to go fight. It was a lot of them.”
“'Final Fantasy VII' is my favorite video game, and I had a conversation on Up Up Down Down, and I don't wanna say who is my favorite character, but my default would be Sephiroth.”
“Catch wrestling is pro wrestling, if you look at the ground moves and the rule set. It's just about learning the art of it for yourself.”
“I was going to school; I was working - at one point, I had two jobs - and I was still trying to train and fight.”
“I've faced the undefeated, young up-and-comers, everybody counting me out before, on a big card, with big lights, TV.”
“It's interesting because my Mixed Martial Arts upbringing is less Brazilian jiu-jitsu, which is the traditional thing that people study.”
“One of the reasons I started pursuing MMA was for all the similarities to pro wrestling that it has.”
“If you follow my MMA career, I've always been the pro wrestler of women's MMA, coming out with a guitar, saying crazy things on interviews, promos and such.”
“I discover a lot of things on my own.”
“Changing over to the UFC, I was trying to force myself to thinking, like, 'This was it; this is the most important thing.'”
“I love rock and roll and loved getting on wrestling mats since I was six, and I have never been ashamed of it.”
“I've fought on some big cards. I've fought in some big arenas, on televised cards, pay-per-view cards, whatever.”
“I think, at every professional wrestler's heart, there's a fan.”
“One thing I've learned is that a lot of fans' knowledge starts and stops with the UFC.”
“I've always said the thing about MMA that a lot of fighters don't understand is people care more about the story, about why a fight's happening, than the actual fight.”
“In MMA, you're trained to tune the audience out. In sports entertainment, you're trained to feed off what the audience is thinking and feeling.”
“I've already done enough to prove myself. Win or lose, I think I've done enough to cement my name in the history of this sport. So for me, it's more like I have to win just for an opportunity to get on the mic and say all that.”
“Ronda's a natural athlete. Just learning a different rule set and bringing what she has from MMA would be the same: does her judo translate to MMA, will her MMA translate to pro wrestling? She's been pretty successful one way, and I think she'll be pretty successful the other way.”
“Everything I've gotten, I've had to work twice as hard to earn.”