I wake up every morning and I surprise myself. I wake up to a new me.Collection: Morning
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.
I have gotten some of the most beautiful experiences that a person can possibly ask for so I'm not at all complaining.
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.
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.
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.
Since I've started fighting it has taught me a lot about self respect, self confidence and self control.
You want to get better even after people smash you down. You want to be better than you were before.
You shouldn't be greedy. You should feel good about yourself and not be greedy of what other people have.
The guys I date always want to test my strength and wrestle around. By the end, they're drenched in sweat.
There are certain things that I always dreamed of, like fighting in the UFC. There's just certain things that I feel like haven't been accomplished there. There's such great women coming up in the sport; seems like a wonderful time to be in women's MMA.
Well you know, I have the utmost respect for people like Angelina Jolie and Zoe Saldana in 'Colombiana. '
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.
The ultimate first date? Something that is completely out of the ordinary - go crazy, because first dates are always a little awkward, so do something a little extreme.
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.
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.
I think there's a part in each one of us that wants the impossible to happen, and that's what surprises are.
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.
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.
I think I came up in fighting in a really technical way. If you've ever seen my fights, you know I love distance, I love technique.
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.
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.
When you do things for the right reasons, eventually no matter how long it takes, people will take notice of it and can't help but respect it.Collection: Mma
When you dream big, you eventually attract big things.Collection: Dream
There's nothing that can teach you more than experience.Collection: Teach
Once you get that addiction of realizing what you can do, you want to take that to the next level.Collection: Mma
Fighting's given me confidence but it's also broken me down and kept me humble.Collection: Humble
Fight night is all about believing in yourself, believing in what you can do, and doing it.Collection: Believe
I cannot say where I will be in 5 yearsscratch that, tomorrowBut I know that wherever you find me, I will remain true to myself with a genuine smile on my face and happiness in my heart.Collection: Heart
I like to break down barriers and I think that Hollywood is doing the same thing over and over. I want to do something new and say, "Let's evolve as artists!"Collection: Artist
I'm afraid of pretty much everything, but there's something inside me that is addicted to scaring myself.Collection: Mma
I'm attracted to any type of endeavor that gives me the chance to express what's going on inside me.Collection: Mma