Top 50 Gina Carano Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “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.”

— Gina Carano

2. “Once you get that addiction of realizing what you can do, you want to take that to the next level.”

— Gina Carano

3. “People want to put you in the box, and you just have to fight past their preconceived notions.”

— Gina Carano

4. “There’s nothing that can teach you more than experience.”

— Gina Carano

5. “I am always training because I love it.”

— Gina Carano

6. “You shouldn’t be greedy. You should feel good about yourself and not be greedy of what other people have.”

— Gina Carano

7. “I like fighting because it’s honest.”

— Gina Carano

8. “Since I’ve started fighting it has taught me a lot about self respect, self confidence and self control.”

— Gina Carano

9. “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.”

— Gina Carano

10. “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.”

— Gina Carano

11. “When you dream big, you eventually attract big things.”

— Gina Carano

12. “Sometimes, you get portrayed the way you don’t want to be portrayed.”

— Gina Carano

13. “I think there’s a part in each one of us that wants the impossible to happen, and that’s what surprises are.”

— Gina Carano

14. “I know I’m always rooting for the underdog in a fight, and I love to be constantly surprised.”

— Gina Carano

15. “I am not a violent person. I actually don’t like to hurt people.”

— Gina Carano

16. “I wake up every morning and I surprise myself. I wake up to a new me.”

— Gina Carano

17. “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.”

— Gina Carano

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18. “The guys I date always want to test my strength and wrestle around. By the end, they’re drenched in sweat.”

— Gina Carano

19. “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.”

— Gina Carano

20. “If a good visionary wants to jump on board with that and I see their vision correctly and I like it and I like the script, I would absolutely do it but I have to read the script first.”

— Gina Carano

21. “I’m afraid of pretty much everything, but there’s something inside me that is addicted to scaring myself.”

— Gina Carano

22. “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.”

— Gina Carano

23. “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.”

— Gina Carano

24. “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.”

— Gina Carano

25. “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.”

— Gina Carano

26. “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.”

— Gina Carano

27. “Fighting is very physical and extreme and you’re very vulnerable. It’s a very mental type of thing.”

— Gina Carano

28. “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!””

— Gina Carano

29. “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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30. “There’s so much I want to do. I love emotions, I love drama, I love comedy and I also want to take action up to another level, I love comics.”

— Gina Carano

31. “In acting, you get to explore such an artistic side with different characters to research and learn and explore different things inside yourself and I do that anyway, so I might as well be doing something that I already do, as in a second nature to me, on film.”

— Gina Carano

32. “I definitely don’t want to be one of those athletes who turns into a cheesy actress.”

— Gina Carano

33. “Fight night is all about believing in yourself, believing in what you can do, and doing it.”

— Gina Carano

34. “When I enjoy doing something, I don’t mind if it hurts.”

— Gina Carano

35. “Fighting’s given me confidence but it’s also broken me down and kept me humble.”

— Gina Carano

36. “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.”

— Gina Carano

37. “It’s something that I’ve always loved to do and it’s been such a genuine expression for me.”

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38. “I don’t mind answering any questions, because I’m not just a fighter. I’m a lot more than that.”

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39. “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.”

— Gina Carano

40. “When you fight someone, you share the experience with that one person, and you’re never going to have that experience with someone else-even in another fight.”

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41. “I was destined to express myself.”

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42. “Everybody is their own critic.”

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43. “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.”

— Gina Carano

44. “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.”

— Gina Carano

45. “I’m attracted to any type of endeavor that gives me the chance to express what’s going on inside me.”

— Gina Carano

46. “You want to get better even after people smash you down. You want to be better than you were before.”

— Gina Carano

47. “I love it. It’s something I can do that makes everything else disappear.”

— Gina Carano

48. “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.”

— Gina Carano

49. “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.”

— Gina Carano

50. “I don’t get paid what people think I get paid for fighting.”

— Gina Carano