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" I'm really surprised how many people knew me as Gina Carano. MMA has a beautiful fan base. "
Gina Carano
How
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" I know I don't look like the skinny slender model. I know I look a little different but people like to watch me for some reason. It feels good and I'm humbled by it. "
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" I like fighting because it's honest. "
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" When I enjoy doing something, I don't mind if it hurts. "
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" I didn't really watch action films growing up! I grew up on stuff like 'Anne of Green Gables' - that was more when I was in elementary school. It was all I ever watched. "
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" I find that whoever you are as a person is how you're gonna fight, and every basic instinct kind of comes out at that moment. "
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" On 'American Gladiators,' I got to pummel a lot of people off a pyramid with a giant Q-tip. It was so much fun to wrestle people with no risk of getting knocked out or choked out. "
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" I have gotten some of the most beautiful experiences that a person can possibly ask for so I'm not at all complaining. "
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" A lot of people enjoyed the film 'Haywire' and a lot of people have mixed feelings on it but regardless, a lot of people have said really wonderful things about it being my first experience, that the fighting they absolutely enjoyed. So I think I've gotten a lot more fans, actually. "
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" Since I've started fighting it has taught me a lot about self respect, self confidence and self control. "
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" You want to get better even after people smash you down. You want to be better than you were before. "
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" I definitely don't want to be one of those athletes who turns into a cheesy actress. "
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" My first fight. I fought a girl that was a little bit heavier, a little bit more experienced and I was petrified because I didn't know what I was getting myself into. And I did really well against her and nobody believed it was my first fight. "
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" You shouldn't be greedy. You should feel good about yourself and not be greedy of what other people have. "
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People
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" My mom used to tell me: 'It's not what you weigh; it's what you look like.' "
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" Of course, fighting is not going to be as graceful as movie fighting. I don't like it to be ugly and I don't like it to be one big brawl or people clobbering each other. "
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Big
" I was always bigger than the other girls. My sisters are very, very beautiful and very skinny, and I've always had a more muscular body. So I grew up with a different mentality. "
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Body
More
Skinny
" I know I'm always rooting for the underdog in a fight, and I love to be constantly surprised. "
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" I am always training because I love it. "
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" Well you know, I have the utmost respect for people like Angelina Jolie and Zoe Saldana in 'Colombiana. ' "
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" Fighting is very physical and extreme and you're very vulnerable. It's a very mental type of thing. "
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" I want people to see me for who I am and not for how someone else is trying to promote me. "
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" When I throw a punch, I mean it. "
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" Fighting is my career, it's what I love to do, but I am taking offers and trying to expand because the more I expand myself, the more valuable I become to promoters. "
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" I think there's a part in each one of us that wants the impossible to happen, and that's what surprises are. "
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" Everybody is their own critic. "
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Critic
Own
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" My last fight wasn't the way I wanted it to go so there is a hole there; don't count me out. "
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" It's a very big deal to me to remain the same person because I know all of this is going to be gone one day and I'm just going to have myself. "
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" I've had cameras on me since I started the art of fighting and I think that I'm used to having cameras on me in adrenaline-type situations. "
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" I am not a violent person. I actually don't like to hurt people. "
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" I wake up every morning and I surprise myself. I wake up to a new me. "
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