Rousey Quotes & Sayings

I'm the biggest draw in the sport, and I'm a woman. — Ronda Rousey

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

It's not my responsibility to make everything I say idiot-proof. — Ronda Rousey

Know when to explode and know when to relax — 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'm scared of failure all the time. But not scared enough to stop trying. — Ronda Rousey

I kind of like to think of myself as the bad girl Olympian that would get kicked out of the Miss America pageant. — Ronda Rousey

Nobody's easy until after you beat them. — Ronda Rousey

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

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

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

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. — 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

I just want to tailgate, drink beer, and hang out in the middle of nowhere in a pick-up truck. That's my ideal date. — 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

There's no way to recover after tarnishing an undefeated record. — 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

I only have so much ring time that my body can endure. I've had four surgeries on my knees, arthritis in my neck, separated my shoulders, broken my nose. I'm just gonna hope that science advances faster than I can deteriorate. Because what am I gonna do? Put a perfect body into the ground? What's the point of that? — Ronda Rousey

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

I got a lot of body paint on me in a short period of time. I would definitely do it again because Joann [Gair] is so brilliant, but I would definitely need, like, a good long break for it. — Ronda Rousey

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

Complimenting yourself is the funnest form of manifestation. — Ronda Rousey

After I defended my title the first time when I beat Sarah Kaufman, I went back to my room, and my friend ordered all these trays of hot wings. They came into the room, and the little hotel sheet thing was draped over it, and I go to open it up, and it's breaded and boneless. I cried. — Ronda Rousey

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

Judo taught me that I am capable of anything ... I can mentally push past anything and be victorious. — Ronda Rousey

Winning is a bitch, but revenge is a motherfucker. — Ronda Rousey

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. — Ronda Rousey

Sports are a metaphor for life. — Ronda Rousey

I'm unbelievably ticklish. When I was a little kid, my sisters would hold me down and tickle me until I peed my pants. — 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

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? — Ronda Rousey

Don't doubt, don't stop ... The only 2 things that can stop you is to stop working and start doubting. — Ronda Rousey

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. — Ronda Rousey

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. — Ronda Rousey

When you and everyone around you are immersed in one small community, it is easy to mistake it for the whole world. But once you break away, you realize that no one outside your tiny circle gives a shit about the stupid stuff that was at the center of your little world. When you understand that, you discover there is a much bigger, better world out there. — Ronda Rousey

Bartending took the romanticism out of drinking. — Ronda Rousey

I'm going to beat Alexis Davis then take a nap — Ronda Rousey

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. — 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

I might not have had the tools at my disposal that my opponents had, but I created advantages of my own. — Ronda Rousey

Strong and healthy is the new sexy. — Ronda Rousey

Skinny girls look good in clothes, but fit chicks look good naked — 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

Being an athlete, you try to get protein. — Ronda Rousey

There was a long time I had no job security, no options and no education. — Ronda Rousey

No one has the right to beat you. — Ronda Rousey

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. — Ronda Rousey

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. — 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

Most people focus on the wrong thing; They focus on the result, not the process. The process is the sacrifice; it's 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. In the end, it is the sacrifices that must fulfill you. — Ronda Rousey

What I'm really looking to do is retire undefeated; I'm not sure when the right time to retire will be, but I know that I'm not done yet. Something still feels unfinished, and that's why I'm going to keep going. — Ronda Rousey

I just like when a guy dresses for comfort, to be honest. If he takes longer to get ready than I do, that's a deal breaker. — 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

Believe me, there's nothing I would like to do more than disappear for a while. — 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Confidence is the number one thing I find attractive. — 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

A lot of people, once they become champion, they relax, kind of sit in the position and try to enjoy it. But I feel like everything I've ever worked for could be lost at any moment. I work harder and harder and harder, because I want to be farther ahead with every fight, and not worrying about these girls catching up to me. — 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

drinks for the crowd. — Ronda Rousey

I knew that I liked what I was doing, that it was what I wanted to do for a living, and that the profession didn't really exist so much. So I had to create it.? — Ronda Rousey

I go to bed every night thinking about all the possible ways that I can succeed. — Ronda Rousey

I'm voting for Bernie Sanders because he doesn't take any corporate money. — Ronda Rousey

At the end of the day, I can't curl up with people's opinions. — Ronda Rousey

A sleeper just waits and when the time is right, they come out and wow everyone. That's you, kiddo. Don't you worry. — Ronda Rousey

I don't feel the need to be the hot chick every second of the day. I like to be able to surprise people when I turn it on. I want it to be like the movie 'She's All That' when they unveil her. — Ronda Rousey

I had a lot of trouble speaking as a kid. I didn't really speak in coherent sentences until I was, like, 6 years old. There was a long time where everybody was very worried, because my sisters were so advanced for their age, and I would barely talk. — Ronda Rousey

I always say you have to be willing to get your heart broken. — 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

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'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

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

Easy lives make boring people. — Ronda Rousey