Top 55 Rose Namajunas Quotes

I wake up every morning trying to be a new, better person and version of myself. I never try and be the same thing. So that’s what’s going to be hard for girls to keep up with me, because I’m always ever-evolving my style.

Sometimes when you push something or you force something too much, the progress doesn’t happen the way it should.

I’ve done taekwondo striking my entire life.

There’s pros and cons to everything, and I choose to look at the positives.

I’m sick of all the hate and anger and stuff like that going on.

2016 was really challenging for me. I don’t know what it was.

I grew up with lots of anger, frustration, and violence in my heart.

I have overcome some demons in my path.

Every fight is dangerous, no matter who you’re fighting, no matter what the story behind it is.

I feel like we have a duty as fighters to try and be a better example.

Always try to reinvent myself; never try to stay the same person, because that’s how people figure you out.

The learning curve, and the things that you have to adapt to on a daily basis in the UFC, is pretty crazy. It’s a huge burden for anybody to have: not just the fighting itself but learning how to deal with the other responsibilities.

I’m just here to show up and fight and then get my money and go home.

A lot of times, my best friend was my dog.

If I’m not fighting for a good reason, then your personal life starts to get messy, and it’s like, ‘What am I doing this for?’

To me, fighting is special because that’s what I enjoy to do. Every fight is a memory to me.

People are gonna go up and down and people are gonna come in and out of this sport.

I’m successful every day because I look in the mirror, and I’m happy with who I am.

Fighting helped me learn that I can’t let my emotions take over.

I wanna fight the best.

I want to be the most influential champion, in a positive light. I want to change the world.

It’s pretty cool to be called a champion.

Money and fame, it only makes you so happy. You gotta find other reasons to fight. I want a certain amount of money to do the things that I want to do.

I love spoiling a party. I love it when someone is on a roll and just messin’ that up.

I’m just a very impatient person. It’s always something that I’m working on, and just staying interested in the fight game is the biggest challenge for me. As long as I’m interested and I have an incentive to stay interested, then I’m unbeatable.

I didn’t need the belt to validate me.

I don’t necessarily know about the rankings. I always like to look at it as, it’s the person with the belt, and it’s everybody else.

I live in a very nice neighborhood. There’s nothing that really goes on around here.

I just wish there were a little more peace in the world.

Mixed martial arts – there’s just been a lot of trash talking and things like that. People, I feel like, aren’t really being true to themselves or being honest. I don’t know, maybe that’s what they feel they need to do to entertain things.

I learned that love is a much more sustainable energy to draw on than hate.

I’ve always felt that I was a star. I always knew that I am a star.

I’ve got Pat ‘HD’ Barry in my corner.

That Dutch style of kickboxing, that’s great. That’s hard. It’s very intimidating to stand across from, but you know it’s very rhythmic on the beat. It’s just something: It looks scary, but it’s nothing to be scared of.

When they asked us what we wanted to be when we grow up, in kindergarten, I always said I wanted to be a farmer.

It’s all about me, no matter who I’m fighting.

It takes a lot of courage in that cage no matter who you are.

Every fight is personal, but with myself.

Nobody’s the same. So, I think that people benefit in different things than others.

I love my 303 ladies. We go hard here, you know – we’re fierce!

My dad died, and he wasn’t in my life because he had schizophrenia, so it’s been something that my entire family has been fighting against since I can remember.

All I can control is myself and just keep having a positive attitude.

I’m more dramatic than other people are, or I just show it more. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that. I have a lot of passion.

I’ve always been like, if society’s trying to push me in one direction, I always rebel against it, thinking, ‘Nope, I’m going to do the opposite, something that is not expected.’

I think there’s a lot of mental instability in this whole country.

I feel like I can go all the way for the belt and hold it awhile.

I guess I’m crazy. If everything was easy-peasy and green lights all the time, it’d be kind of boring.

That’s what I want to do when I finish fighting – build urban farms and learn how to become a farmer, because that’s what I wanted to be when I was a little girl.

I come from a place of lots of turmoil.

When I force things, it just doesn’t go well.

Any mistakes that I make is an investment in my future.

Being resourceful and creating is a big part of my Lithuanian culture. My grandfather is part of who I am, too. He was a professional wrestler. He had a very functional, very slick, long frame.

It’s really nice to know that hard work does pay off.

My dream is to be a farmer myself, but also to provide opportunities to others who don’t have the land or the resources, in order to grow food themselves and teach them how to do it.

I was kind of a loner growing up.