Top 45 Ronda Rousey Quotes

There’s something so zen-like and grateful of just ripping a hot wing apart and getting it all over your face, and everyone’s happy. I love that atmosphere.

I go mainly by the Dolce diet. It is a little hard to describe: it’s not really a diet but more of a lifestyle. I eat throughout the day; I have three meals and two snacks, and it changes according to what I need at the time.

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?

I have to be out there to sell these fights; it’s not because I really enjoy getting made up and going to work every day. It’s cool, it’s an awesome job, but it’s still a job. I’m doing it because it helps me make a living and not because I’m so extremely vain that I want to see my face everywhere.

It’s not my responsibility to make everything I say idiot-proof.

Some girls sit around and watch ‘Gossip Girl’ together. Me and my girlfriends watch ‘Raw’ and ‘SmackDown.’

I lost a lot of judo matches because of points fighters. It was extremely frustrating for me.

I wear sunglasses almost all the time outside – not because I think I’m really, really cool, but because of the rays.

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.

I have a candle permanently on my Jacuzzi because I love me some candles.

Even if they don’t know it, everyone has the instinct to survive.

You go through every single inch of the emotional spectrum on fight week. You’re the most stressed out you’ve ever been, you’re the most pressured you’ve ever been, you’re the happiest you’ve ever been – it’s hard. It’s exhausting.

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.

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

I’m voting for Bernie Sanders because he doesn’t take any corporate money.

I’m the champion for a reason.

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

I had to learn to take my time in MMA, and I was just able to keep a clear head.

Mine’s going to be the best book tour that ever happened!

I’m the champion because I’m the best in every area.

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

See, for some reason, I feel like it’s a victory if I wake up one minute before the alarm. It’s like I’m in a contest with myself, with my foot kicking around until it wakes up the rest of my body. It’s the stupidest thing. But it makes me feel like I’ve already won something.

I fight with pizazz. It’s a different sound from everyone else. It’s the sound of pizazz.

I make fractals. They’re like mathematical pictures. My stepdad is actually a rocket scientist, so in his free time, he gave me a fractal program for fun. He showed me how to use it when I was about nine or 10, and I made thousands of fractals.

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.

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.

I don’t think politicians should be allowed to take money for their campaigns from outside interests.

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.

I spent the whole first year of my career just on my legs. If you have good legs under you, then you can punch. Anybody can stand and throw their hands and look like an idiot. If you actually want to learn how to punch, you have to work on being balanced on your legs and feeling your legs under you. Feel the ground.

At 150 pounds, I feel like I’m at my healthiest and my strongest and my most beautiful.

People say to me all the time, ‘You have no fear.’ I tell them, ‘No, that’s not true. I’m scared all the time. You have to have fear in order to have courage. I’m a courageous person because I’m a scared person.’

I’m a huge fan of wrestling, and I would like to see the position of women in the sport continue to improve, so if I can be a part of it, great.

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

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.

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.

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

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

I was always pushed to do that much more, and in the long run that made me more of an MMA fighter. My mom always told me that if I let it go to the judges, I’d lost. There was no way I was going to win a decision, so I had to find ways to finish the fight fast.

I’ve separated my shoulder and my collarbone; I’ve messed up my knee a million times. I’ve broken my foot in several places. I’ve broken my toe a bunch, broken my nose a couple of times, and had a bunch of other annoying little injuries, like turf toe and arthritis and tendonitis. It’s part of the game.

People call me a whole lot of things, but above anything else, I’m a fighter, and it’s going to be hard to accept an identity without that.

Being an athlete, you try to get protein.

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

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.

At the end of the day, I can’t curl up with people’s opinions.

I’m a terrible singer, but I’m not shy about it. I’m shy about dancing.