Athlete

I feel like Nina came into my life to help me grow, and since I met her, everything in our careers has been amazing.

I feel like Nina came into my life to help me grow, and since I met her, everything in our careers has been amazing.

I definitely want to defend my 145 belt.

I feel like I have grown with the sport.

Juliana Pena says I'm running from her, Valentina Shevchenko also said I'm running from her, and now she's saying Juliana Pena is running from her, too. I don't like to play games.

You know, whatever people say, nothing's going to change it - what I think, what I'm capable of.

I respect my opponents, I learned that from life. I used to think I would step in there, throw one punch and the other girl would go down and not get up again. Everytime I thought that, I lost.

I'm gonna knock people out.

Ronda had her time and that buzz around her. She knows it has cooled down now. She knows she lost. That's the problem. She was undefeated for a long time and doesn't know how to deal with a loss now.

Where the opponent is in the rankings means nothing.

When you lose, you have to look at yourself and ask 'where did I lose?' Do I need to change teams or something?

When I'm training, I come to the gym twice a day and sometimes three times. My coach and I make our schedule: wrestle in the morning, strike and conditioning, jujitsu later. And we mix it up as well. I always move everything around. I don't keep everything the same every day.

As soon as I go to another area, another climate, I always have this kind of pressure in my sinuses. Honestly, I used to worry about a lot, I'd think something was wrong with me.

Honestly, I don't like trash talk, because we gonna fight anyways, right? We don't need to trash talk.

I think all of my opponents say that, I gas out or whatever. They have to say something about me.

I'm 100 percent gonna beat Ronda Rousey - I'm 200 percent.

I am the greatest of all-time.

We can't get in the cage thinking that we'll win quickly, that we'll get the knockout.

When we're out there, you'll never know a lot of people are gonna look up to you. You don't realize it, but soon you go on social media and see all the messages and people try to reach out to you and you start to realize how huge and how people look up to you.

I'm going to keep on making history.