Top 100 Ronda Rousey Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “I’m kind of like a middle mix between a warrior diet and a Paleo diet, so I only eat once a day and it’s at night – so kind of like interval fasting. But I eat until I’m full, I eat as much as I want, and I really don’t eat anything that you couldn’t find, you know, 10,000 years ago.”

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52. “I don’t want little girls to have the same ambitions as me. But I want them to know that it’s okay to be ambitious.”

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53. “I get asked that a lot and I always go back to my mom’s, ‘No one has the right to beat you.’ I take that to every venue that I’m in. She would say, ‘Someone has to be the best in the world, why not you?’ I always try to keep that in mind.”

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54. “If I could have had everything exactly the way I wanted, this is how I would have written it down. Win all my fights in the first round, then go to the UFC and headline a show, and have it as a pay-per-view and at home. People’s dreams don’t come true like that.”

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55. “As an athlete you’re taught to be selfish. When I’m training, it’s usually all about me.”

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56. “I think that going on any reality show is not good for your mental health because you behave differently when you are being watched, and you constantly have an extra bit of awareness of what’s going on all the time.”

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57. “I grew up with a lot of body image issues – not just about my weight, but I would always see these perfect orb, domed boobs on television, and think, “Mine don’t look like that.” I thought there was something wrong with me.”

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58. “I kind of like to think of myself as the bad girl Olympian that would get kicked out of the Miss America pageant.”

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59. “My father would say, ‘Ronnie, you’re going to be someone special. Whatever it is that you want to do, you’re going to be the best in the world at it.’”

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60. “The bigger my chest is, the more it gets in the way. It just creates space. It makes me much more efficient if I don’t have so much in the way between me and my opponent.”

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61. “That’s why I love fighting, because I get to have a big battle every couple months to make up for the little battles I have to forfeit every day.”

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62. “Even though I was painted, even though I had on seven layers of paint – to the point that I got a tan, it was as thick as a fabric – I think I felt the most naked because I couldn’t cover myself at all. I didn’t have to, so I had to be much more open and relaxed.”

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63. “I’m going to beat Alexis Davis then take a nap.”

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64. “Once you give them the power to tell you you’re great, you’ve also given them the power to tell you you’re unworthy. Once you start caring about people’s opinions of you, you give up control.”

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65. “Look at my face. Does it look like I can take a good hit?”

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66. “Every naked chick in the room ran toward the scale. It was just titties and passports everywhere.”

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67. “The Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue really sets the social standard for what people expect the perfect woman’s body to look like, and a lot of those bodies usually look the same.”

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68. “It was a very bold step for Sports Illustrated, and a lot of people are taking notice. I want it to be so normal that people don’t even notice anymore.”

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69. “One of the greatest days of my life was when I came to understand that other people’s approval and my happiness were not related.”

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70. “No one is ever going to give you anything of value. You have to work for it, sweat for it, fight for it. But there is far greater value in accomplishments you earn than in accolades that are merely given to you. When you earn something, you never have to worry about justifying that you truly deserve it.”

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71. “My punishment lasted a month. Knowing I could push through pain and succeed has lasted a lifetime. Pain was just something I became accustomed to as part of life. If you’re an athlete and want to win, something always hurts. You are always dealing with bruises and injuries. You’re testing how far you can push the human body, and whoever pushes it the furthest wins.”

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72. “After I did the swimsuit issu?, I knew that I wanted to do it again.”

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73. “The reaction has been amazing because there is no woman that could look at these covers and not be like, ‘That’s what I could look like,’ or, ‘I pretty much already look like one of these chicks.’ It really makes beauty seem so much more attainable to people.”

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74. “I respect Georges St. Pierre as a businessman and an athlete. I don’t have anything against him personally. But he’s not the kind of fighter I like watching.”

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75. “When I looked at the state of women’s MMA, what I saw was that it was missing rivalries or anything theatrical about it. Everybody was trying to be Miss America, unwilling to go under any kind of criticism, and taking the safe answers. I thought I needed to do whatever I could to get attention.”

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76. “I’ve coached doing judo, but I’ve never coached MMA. I’ll have my own coach with me to help me along the way and I can’t really fail with him by my side, but I’m a little nervous.”

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77. “I thought that I was mutant somehow. I eventually realized that I have a very natural look, and that’s what God gave me, and I’m proud of it. It was kind of a way for me to get past that as well.”

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78. “In MMA it’s a lot less intimidating because it’s not like you get one shot at a title every four years. You get a title shot every couple of months With the Olympics, you don’t always have this, so there is so much more pressure involved.”

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79. “That I happened to fall into a career that no other girls wanted isn’t surprising to me. I wanted something that didn’t exist, so I had to create it.”

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80. “Sports Illustrated is very serious about their covers. They’ll never say, like, ‘Oh you got it.’”

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81. “I think that Floyd Mayweather is the best boxer that’s ever lived; like actual technical boxer.”

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82. “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.”

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83. “Why is self confidence arrogant? Why is self-depreciation considered modesty? I worked my ass off to be able to have a high opinion of myself. It took a long time and many, many years, and I’m never going to tell – let anyone tell me that I should think less of myself.”

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84. “The way that I like to fight is I like to paint myself into a corner and so the only way is for me to win.”

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85. “Whenever people call me the first female this or that, it doesn’t make it more special because no one in front of me wanted the same job. I’ve always wanted weird stuff and enjoyed things differently than other girls.”

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86. “The thing that gets me up in the morning is that I’m really not ready to see someone that I know I can beat holding my belt.”

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87. “Making a change in your life is as easy as making a decision and acting on it. That’s it.”

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88. “When people say, “Oh you’re so cocky. You’re so arrogant,” I feel like they’re telling me that I think too highly of myself. My question for them is: “Who are you to tell me that I need to think less of myself?”

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89. “If there’s a camera on me or off me, it’s roughly the same, just a lot less energy.”

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90. “Everything in the world is information. The information you choose to acknowledge and the information you choose to ignore is up to you. You can let outside factors beyond your control throw off your focus. You can let aching muscles hold you back. You can let silence make you feel uncomfortable. By choosing to focus only on the information that is necessary, you can tune out every distraction, and achieve far more.”

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91. “How you feel is entirely in your mind. Your mind has nothing to do with your environment. It has nothing to do with anyone around you. It is entirely your decision.”

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92. “In the moments that you fall hardest – when you lose a job, or find out a boyfriend is cheating on you, or realize that you made a bad financial decision – you can channel your shame, your anger, your desire, your loss. You can learn, take chances, change course. You can choose to become so successful that no one can ever put you in a situation like that again.”

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93. “Pain is just a piece of information.”

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94. “A sleeper just waits and when the time is right, they come out and wow everyone. That’s you, kiddo. Don’t you worry.”

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95. “I want her to look at me. I want her to stare me in the eye. I want her to see that I have no fear. I want her to know she stands no chance. I want her to be scared. I want her to know she is going to lose.”

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96. “Michelangelo who said, “If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn’t seem so wonderful at all.”

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97. “After thirteen years, the American flag that had been placed on Dad’s coffin at his funeral had been unfurled and was fluttering in the arms of my mother. My dad had always believed.”

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98. “People love the idea of winning an Olympic medal or a world title. But what few people realize is that pretty much every second leading up to the actual win is uncomfortable, painful, and impossibly daunting – physically and mentally. Most people focus on the wrong thing: They focus on the result, not the process. The process is the sacrifice; it is all the hard parts – the sweat, the pain, the tears, the losses. You make the sacrifices anyway. You learn to enjoy them, or at least embrace them.”

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99. “The moment you stop viewing your opponent as a threat is the moment you leave yourself open to getting beat.”

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100. “She taught me that it is not enough to just be better than everyone else. You have to be so much better that no one can deny your superiority. You have to realize that the judges are not always going to give the win to you. You have to win so clearly that they have no choice but to declare you the winner. You have to be able to win every match twice on your worst day.”

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