Top 50 Liz Carmouche Quotes

I hate taking breaks in my training. But I’m having to change that, and let my body heal.

I’m my hardest critic, I expect the best of myself, I’m a perfectionist.

There’s no real hiding from fame.

I’m just not really meant to fight at 135.

There’s a lot of hype surrounding Ronda and a lot of the girls she’s fought fall for that Ronda hype and they’re beaten before they go in. They freeze in front of her and she uses it to her advantage.

After growing up in a military family and going to an Evangelical Christian school, to look around and see lesbians and gay men of all ages and colors living their lives openly, it was awesome.

When I watch fights, it’s on YouTube.

I’ve always been a little powerhouse.

At 135 I always floated too close to my actual weight. I was always trying to keep my weight up to 135. And every time I faced off with an opponent, I could never believe how large they were after they blew up after weigh-ins. I would always just be the same size.

The first time I got to really hit somebody in the face, that changed everything.

I always wanted to make sure that within my unit that I was never the weak person. So I made sure that my physical fitness was top.

Physically, no disrespect to Ronda, but I don’t think she has an advantage over anybody else. She’s not physically stronger than any other opponent I’ve gone against.

After the Ronda fight, I wasn’t sure what the UFC held for me. I think coming out of that fight, I didn’t know if losing that fight meant that I could get cut because I knew the rumors at the time was how easily fighters could get cut from the UFC.

I understand you always want drama leading up to the fight. You want whatever publicity you can get for it. It’s more appealing for fans, for media for everything.

Every day I wake up, and my goal is to be better than I was the day before.

To me, I feel like I play such small role in this life and this world.

You can play the what-if game with anything in life. But everything happens for a reason.

Growing up, I never thought that I would fall into any category. I felt like I didn’t fit in anywhere.

My best friend in the Marines, her name is Kim, said one day while we were in Iraq that homosexuals in the Forces should be put on the front line because they deserved to die. This was my best friend talking.

I’m not going to say things to make a point, I let my actions do so.

Women always have to work harder to prove themselves.

Beast. That’s what everybody says about me.

I kind of will over everything. There will be situations where like ‘I refuse!’

I don’t believe in letting my words speak for me, I let my actions speak.

Somebody showed me a fight where somebody had gotten cut on the forehead and was just gushing blood and kept going throughout the fight. I couldn’t grasp the concept that anybody would want to do that.

When I went to Iraq, I was the lowest person on the totem pole. If everyone else was inside and was relaxing, I was the one working for eight hours straight.

There was a point when people didn’t see the UFC as supporting the LGBT community or homosexuality. But by embracing me, the UFC showed that wasn’t true and that it wanted to support the community as much as possible.

I fell into a safety zone where I didn’t want to risk losing my fighting life with the UFC, so I wanted to go the safe route instead of taking risk and being the fighter I’ve always been.

When my contract with the military was done, then I started following MMA.

The hype around Ronda is incredible and it’s created this aura of invincibility. If you let that play with your mind, you’ll be beaten before the bell rings. She’s a great fighter, but I know I can beat her and I don’t let that aura of invincibility bother me.

I didn’t come from a combat sports background where I had a real definitive background in anything to fall back onto.

I took a lot from that Ronda fight. What that taught me was one – just how to manage my time.

To me, fighting in Strikeforce was a dream, like saying ‘I want to be an astronaut and go to the moon.’ You don’t think that it’s actually is going to happen, you just wish it.

In society, it’s hard for some to view women getting hit. They see the women as different figures rather than as athletes and fighters.

I think I’m a different creature from the rest.

They test NFL players for brain trauma. They track them for the life of their career and even outside of their career. So I’ve done all the MRIs and testing with them.

That’s one thing that’s always helped me as a fighter is that I haven’t focused on one thing, like, ‘let’s make you a jiu-jitsu fighter’ or ‘let’s make you a Muay Thai fighter.’ I had nothing when I started, and we work on everything at the same time.

I’ve had nothing but positive feedback and support from the LGBT community.

I’ve done judo, I’ve done Greco, I’ve done boxing, I’ve done catch wrestling.

I had zero interest in going to college. I used my GI Bill to help pay for training. I hated doing group projects or deal with people in the class who aren’t paying attention. That made me go insane. I was looking for any way out. My sanity was fighting.

Growing up I was always stronger than all the other kids. I wasn’t allowed to play with the other girls because they were too weak. And I had to be careful with boys because I’d always be hitting them and I’d get into trouble for hurting them.

I always needed a physical outlet, this is always who I’ve been.

I’m constantly pushing myself to evolve and be a better person and the best that I can be and that pushes me in my fighting career and personal life.

There’s a certain safety net that you find in the military that, as dangerous as it is, you know they’re going to provide you a meal and a home no matter what happens.

I’m always brought in to be the loser and I’m OK with that.

I started off and I didn’t have the advantage like other fighters of having an amateur career to grow and learn and make mistakes. Unfortunately, I spent the early years of my professional career doing that, and I feel like I’ve learned from all those mistakes.

I was able to come out to my family, but other than that I couldn’t come out to co-workers or to friends because of what that would mean for my military life and my career. That made my life difficult, because I felt like I was constantly conflicted and at war with myself every day that I faced people.

I don’t think anyone should try to put themselves in a situation or push themselves out of the zone that they don’t feel comfortable and safe in.

I wouldn’t say I’m a social hermit, but pretty close to that.

Everybody has strong feelings and they back what they believe, and they have the right to.