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, overco….

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 peop….

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….

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….

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 uncomf….

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..

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

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 betwee….

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.….

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 stil….

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 thos….

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?.

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

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 ….

No one has the right to beat you..

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 M….

I really think that 'Sports Illustrated' is a big step in the "healthy is the new skinny" movement..

If you're fighting with emotion instead of structure... it's always going to be a mistake..

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 pret….

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

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 ….