Top 100 Ronda Rousey Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Strong and healthy is the new sexy.”

— Ronda Rousey

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2. “Everyone wants to win. But to truly succeed – whether it is at a sport or at your job or in life – you have to be willing to do the hard work, overcome the challenges, and make the sacrifices it takes to be the best at what you do.”

— Ronda Rousey

3. “Skinny girls look good in clothes, but fit chicks look good naked.”

— Ronda Rousey

4. “I train to be the best in the world on my worst day.”

— Ronda Rousey

5. “I’m scared of failure all the time. But not scared enough to stop trying.”

— Ronda Rousey

6. “It’s your purpose to leave the world better than how you found it.”

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7. “Life is a fight from the minute you take your first breath to the moment you exhale your last.”

— Ronda Rousey

8. “I’m living such a lucky and blessed life and I’m trying my best to deserve it.”

— Ronda Rousey

9. “Some people like to call me cocky or arrogant, but I just think ‘how dare you assume I should think less of myself’”

— Ronda Rousey

10. “Sports are a metaphor for life.”

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11. “Easy lives make boring people.”

— Ronda Rousey

12. “A belt does nothing but hold your gi together. A belt has assigned significance, a belt is someone else saying you’re good, you don’t need other people saying that you’re good in order to be good.”

— Ronda Rousey

13. “You have to fight because you can’t count on anyone else fighting for you. And you have to fight for people who can’t fight for themselves. To get anything of real value, you have to fight for it.”

— Ronda Rousey

14. “I am vulnerable; that’s why I fight.”

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15. “If you’re unwilling to leave someplace you’ve outgrown, you will never reach your full potential. To be the best, you have to constantly be challenging yourself, raising the bar, pushing the limits of what you can do. Don’t stand still, leap forward.”

— Ronda Rousey

16. “To be a fighter, you have to be passionate. I have so much passion, it’s hard to hold it all in. That passion escapes as tears from my eyes, sweat from my pores, blood from my veins.”

— Ronda Rousey

17. “You have to have fear in order to have courage.”

— Ronda Rousey

18. “If you work hard the fight’s easy. If you don’t work hard then the fight’s hard.”

— Ronda Rousey

19. “No one has the right to beat you.”

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20. “My first injury ever was a broken toe, and my mother made me run laps around the mat for the rest of the night. She said she wanted me to know that even if I was hurt, I was still fine.”

— Ronda Rousey

21. “Success is the result of hard work, busting your ass every day for years on end without cutting corners or taking shortcuts.”

— Ronda Rousey

22. “Don’t focus on what you can’t do. Focus on what you can.”

— Ronda Rousey

23. “Reality TV is set up to make people entertaining. A good person with values and principles is not good television.”

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24. “Boxing great Mike Tyson said “a happy fighter is a dangerous fighter.” I think he’s right.”

— Ronda Rousey

25. “Do I ever get tired of being the first female everything? Not really, I just happened to be in a position where the job that I wanted was not really there for me. I had to create an opportunity instead of waiting for an opportunity.”

— Ronda Rousey

26. “I’m going to retire undefeated. I’ll take everybody out one-by-one then go on my merry way.”

— Ronda Rousey

27. “If you can’t dream big, ridiculous dreams, what’s the point in dreaming at all?”

— Ronda Rousey

28. “There was a long time I had no job security, no options and no education.”

— Ronda Rousey

29. “At home, I watch fights and documentaries – that’s it. If it’s not about the birth and death of stars, ‘Frozen Planet,’ or someone getting punched in the face, I’m probably not watching it.”

— Ronda Rousey

30. “My one fear is failure and that’s one fear I have to face all the time. Yes, it’s uncomfortable to be scared but I’m finally comfortable being uncomfortable.”

— Ronda Rousey

31. “No one is easy until you actually beat them.”

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32. “I’m a courageous person because I’m a scared person.”

— Ronda Rousey

33. “The moment you stop viewing your opponent as a threat is the moment you leave yourself open to getting beat. You start thinking you don’t have to train as hard. You cut corners. You get comfortable. You get caught.”

— Ronda Rousey

34. “I am not looking to escape the pressure. I am embracing it. Pressure is what builds up in the chamber behind a bullet before it explodes out of the gun.”

— Ronda Rousey

35. “People want to project their own insecurities on others, but I refuse to allow them to put that on me. Just because you don’t think that you could be the best in the world doesn’t mean that I shouldn’t have the confidence to believe I can do anything.”

— Ronda Rousey

36. “I’ve never had anything cold and wet touching my butthole before. That was quite the experience!”

— Ronda Rousey

37. “I’m the most dangerous unarmed women in the world, I’ve prepared my entire life to be that way.”

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38. “I don’t shy away from any questions. I’m not scared of any question. I’ll give you an answer. A lot of people are scared of having actual opinions out there. People are so scared of criticism I’m not scared of people disliking me.”

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39. “Even before I was a fighter, I was a daddy’s girl.”

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40. “The whole ‘bad girl’ thing allows me to mess up sometimes. And I have freedom to say more of what I want to.”

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41. “When you shoot nude, you always find a way to, like, cover yourself up in a way. So you really don’t feel like you’re truly naked because you’re still covering yourself.”

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42. “The Olympics is a once-in-a-lifetime thing. I was lucky enough to go twice, but most people only get one chance. And in judo you can train your whole life and it’ll come down to a split second: You can lose everything or win anything.”

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43. “Complimenting yourself is the funnest form of manifestation.”

— Ronda Rousey

44. “Being an athlete, you try to get protein.”

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45. “Where is women’s sports prominently displayed with the men? Tennis is the only thing I can think of.”

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46. “For me, MMA is like speed chess. It’s like I’m herding a person into a certain position. Say my endgame is an arm bar. I’m not gonna actually take you and put you there. What I’m going to do is convince you that it’s a good idea to move in the direction I want you to go.”

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47. “I try not to get caught up on how cool I am. That way nothing ever gets done. I’m always thinking about what I haven’t done.”

— Ronda Rousey

48. “When you’re doing something like body paint or a nude shoot, you’re making yourself very vulnerable, and you’re really trusting people to really take care of you and make sure everything is very professional.”

— Ronda Rousey

49. “There have always been people who have written me off. They’re not going away. I use that to motivate me. I’m driven to show them just how wrong they are.”

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50. “I’m not a full model like those other girls. Mostly I was surprised that I could hang.”

— Ronda Rousey