Best Ronda Rousey Quotes & Sayings

Mine's going to be the best book tour that ever happened! — Ronda Rousey

I'm a big crier. I never cry when something is painful, but I cry if things are frustrating. Like if I'm trying to do something, and I mess up over and over. If I'm playing a video game, and I can't beat a level that I've tried 10 times, I'll cry. When I was a kid, I think I cried for every practice from 2003 to the middle of 2006. — Ronda Rousey

The confusing thing is we now live in a society where it's not illegal to be an asshole, but it's illegal to slap one. — Ronda Rousey

I never really liked weightlifting because there is no problem solving, whereas when I am fighting, I am trying to solve a problem, so I don't think about being tired. I box, wrestle, do jujitsu, run up sand dunes; every single day is something different so that I am mentally engaged. That's what makes me want to train longer. — Ronda Rousey

I train to be the best in the world on my worst day — Ronda Rousey

Every naked chick in the room ran toward the scale. It was just titties and passports everywhere. — Ronda Rousey

Some girls sit around and watch 'Gossip Girl' together. Me and my girlfriends watch 'Raw' and 'SmackDown.' — Ronda Rousey

At 150 pounds, I feel like I'm at my healthiest and my strongest and my most beautiful. — Ronda Rousey

If I can represent that body type of women that isn't represented so much in media, then I'd be happy to do that. — Ronda Rousey

I am pretty much gluten-free; I barely ever eat bread, and the only dairy I eat is Greek yogurt and goat cheese. — Ronda Rousey

They're going to say that because no one else has ever done something, that it can't be done. You have to be crazy enough to believe that you are the one person in the history of the world who can create that change or accomplish that dream. — Ronda Rousey

Champions do more than people who think that they've done more. — Ronda Rousey

People say this all the time and everyone, like, nods their head and is like, 'Oh yeah, totally,' but no one ever does it, including myself. I can do better at it, is just drinking a lot of water, like a gallon and a half, two gallons a day, like, straight water all day. — Ronda Rousey

I was just a little three-year-old kid, and I loved Hulk Hogan. And when you're a three-year-old kid, you don't list off the reasons. I was just drawn to him. He was always my favorite, even in the video games and everything like that. He was the one that I always remembered and liked the most. — Ronda Rousey

My life is so active, and I'm fighting the whole day that I don't have any aggressiveness or any energy outside of fighting. I'm the most chill couch potato you could ever meet. — Ronda Rousey

A lot of my best clothes I buy at photo shoots because I don't have time to shop. — Ronda Rousey

Buffalo wings and cider is all I need. — Ronda Rousey

I'm going to be super successful one day, and I'm going to write a book. It's going to be a kickass autobiography. And this is how it always happens in the book. This is just that part of the book where the character is going through hard times. This is that sucky part of the story. Just get through a few more pages, and it's going to have an amazing ending. — Ronda Rousey

I never aspired to be 2nd. I was taught ... you can do whatever you want in this world, so why not be the best in the world? — Ronda Rousey

The best way to take a punch is to look at it. Honestly. Someone could hit you with the hardest punch that they have, but as long as you see it, it's not going to knock you out. It's the punches that you don't see that knock you out. So you could get tapped with a small punch, but if you don't see it, you're out. — Ronda Rousey

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.' — Ronda Rousey

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. — Ronda Rousey

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

Life is a fight from the minute you take your first breath to the moment you exhale your last. — Ronda Rousey

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

There have been times in my adolescence where I gave up. I was like, 'I'm just never going to be pretty. I'm never going to be like one of those people on the front of magazines.' It always seemed really strange to me that the projection of how people are in advertisements looked nothing like the people who were actually buying them. You know what I mean? I never understood that mismatch, and now I really start to see that the people you see in the media are a lot more like people actually are. — Ronda Rousey

I don't lift weights at all. Every muscle on my body is for an actual task; there is no muscle that I train for show. If I want to be able to do a certain move or action, I train really hard until I can. And with all of that training comes muscle definition, so it's really an afterthought. — Ronda Rousey

Judo was one of those sports where they give you guidelines but then try to tell you to develop your own style. — Ronda Rousey

You have to have fear in order to have courage. — Ronda Rousey

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

Easy lives make boring people. — Ronda Rousey

I knew I would make something of myself. I just had to decide what that was going to be. — Ronda Rousey

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. — Ronda Rousey

SOMEONE HAS TO BE THE BEST IN THE WORLD. WHY NOT YOU? — Ronda Rousey

One of my mom's best lines is ... You're not training to be the best in the world, you're training to be the best in the world on your worst day. — Ronda Rousey

I think that Floyd Mayweather is the best boxer that's ever lived; like actual technical boxer. — Ronda Rousey

If you work hard the fight's easy. If you don't work hard then the fight's hard. — Ronda Rousey

Strong and healthy is the new sexy. — Ronda Rousey

We were in the middle of a sandbar in the middle of the ocean with no one around, and still someone was following me from New York, and was hiding in some bushes like a mile away with a long lens, so he still got pictures. It was really an eye opener to how you really have to be careful about being followed everywhere. I was trying to go to the most remote place in the world, I was out on a sandbar in the middle of the ocean, and they still found me. It was definitely a very new experience. — Ronda Rousey

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. — Ronda Rousey

I wasn't always the most fashionable, and I would come to school with cauliflower ear and ringworm. I got made fun of a lot. People called me 'Miss Man' and 'Guns,' and people directed a lot of karate jokes at me. I wish that I was at school now that MMA and martial arts is cool, but back when I was in school, people associated it with nerdy stuff. — Ronda Rousey

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

If you ever wanna be motivated, go try and be homeless for a day and that will just light a fire under your butt like none other. — Ronda Rousey

I'm the champion because I'm the best in every area. — Ronda Rousey

For girls, it raises your testosterone, so I try to have as much sex as possible before I fight. — Ronda Rousey

Bartending took the romanticism out of drinking. — Ronda Rousey

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. — Ronda Rousey

I was in a weight-cutting sport, in judo, so I had to be a certain weight on a deadline. It kind of pushed me into having a really unhealthy relationship with food in my teens. I felt like if I wasn't exactly on weight, I wasn't good-looking. — Ronda Rousey

Even before I was a fighter, I was a daddy's girl. — Ronda Rousey

Reality TV is set up to make people entertaining. A good person with values and principles is not good television. — Ronda Rousey

When I was in school, martial arts made you a dork, and I became self-conscious that I was too masculine. I was a 16-year-old girl with ringworm and cauliflower ears. People made fun of my arms and called me 'Miss Man.' It wasn't until I got older that I realized: These people are idiots. I'm fabulous. — Ronda Rousey

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. — Ronda Rousey

I love Canadians. They are the coolest, nicest, most patriotic people, and they will support their countrymen no matter what, and I think that's commendable. — Ronda Rousey

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

I'm living such a lucky and blessed life and I'm trying my best to deserve it. — Ronda Rousey

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

If there's a camera on me or off me, it's roughly the same, just a lot less energy. — Ronda Rousey

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

I like quoting 'Lord of the Rings': 'My list of allies grows thin! My list of enemies grows long!' — Ronda Rousey

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. — Ronda Rousey