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" It's great that mixed martial arts allows people to still be in touch with their animal side and duke it out in a cage, but I think it's important: we're still nurturing beings, and we should still have compassion for each other. "

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World

Day

Good

" I don't necessarily know about the rankings. I always like to look at it as, it's the person with the belt, and it's everybody else. "

" I'm like a tree. My leaves might change color, but my roots are the same. "

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Roots

" Wrestling and kickboxing, like martial arts, combine a handful of skills. They're really an art form. "

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" I had to really create a positive atmosphere for myself, and that has to come from within. "

" I think we have a great opportunity as fighters and athletes to be good role models. I'm by no means perfect, but I think we can try. "

" I think there's a lot of mental instability in this whole country. "

" I wake up every morning trying to be a new, better person and version of myself. I never try and be the same thing. So that's what's going to be hard for girls to keep up with me, because I'm always ever-evolving my style. "

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Wake Up

Morning

" That Dutch style of kickboxing, that's great. That's hard. It's very intimidating to stand across from, but you know it's very rhythmic on the beat. It's just something: It looks scary, but it's nothing to be scared of. "

" It's really nice to know that hard work does pay off. "

" That's what I want to do when I finish fighting - build urban farms and learn how to become a farmer, because that's what I wanted to be when I was a little girl. "

" I used to fight with hate. There's been a lot of aggression in my past growing up and stuff. That's because I was hurt myself. "

" Any mistakes that I make is an investment in my future. "

" I think it's important to inspire other people to try and do things that people discourage you to do. "

" Every fight is personal, but with myself. "

" Some of the things I've had to overcome in my past, fighting helped me deal with a lot of struggles. Obstacles in life don't make you a great fighter, but fighting - or, I should say, martial arts - helps you overcome your obstacles. "

" There's a process to everything. If you fast track or make shortcuts in any way, and you get too much of one thing, you're just out of balance. "

" I love to learn, and that's the really cool thing about martial arts - you're always learning new things. "

" Oh, man - I don't have just one favorite fighter, but I draw from many different aspects of each fighter. But I will say, just going back in the history of the UFC, just kind of trying to learn from each fighter, I've been looking at Brock Lesnar, all the things he did for the UFC back in the day, and his attitude and things like that. "

" A big misconception is that women shouldn't be in the UFC because we fight 'like girls,' but I think women have some of the most exciting fights. "

" My dad died, and he wasn't in my life because he had schizophrenia, so it's been something that my entire family has been fighting against since I can remember. "

" I love my 303 ladies. We go hard here, you know - we're fierce! "

" I'm just a very impatient person. It's always something that I'm working on, and just staying interested in the fight game is the biggest challenge for me. As long as I'm interested and I have an incentive to stay interested, then I'm unbeatable. "

" All I can control is myself and just keep having a positive attitude. "

" Of course, fighting is one of the most emotional things that you can possibly do. You have to constantly deal with your emotions, especially myself. I have so many that that's where I get my energy from. But it's a matter of controlling them, and yeah, I just don't let nothing affect me. "

" It takes a lot of courage in that cage no matter who you are. "

" I respect my competition. "

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Competition

Respect

" There's a lot around us that we can't control, but my body, my mind, and my soul are pretty much the only things that I can. "

" There's pros and cons to everything, and I choose to look at the positives. "

" We're not just fighters, we're entertainers. "