Top 45 Ronda Rousey Quotes

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.

In MMA it’s a lot less intimidating because it’s not like you get one shot at a title every four years. You get a title shot every couple of months… With the Olympics, you don’t always have this, so there is so much more pressure involved.

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 had a certificate that said, ‘Doctor of Mixology, Harvard University,’ that I actually got from Harvard University. A friend of mine was a research assistant over there and it was one of those student or university perks and she brought me in on that. So I am a doctorate from Harvard and it only took me one afternoon.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

My first injury ever was a broken toe, and my mother made me run laps around the mat for the rest of the night. She said she wanted me to know that even if I was hurt, I was still fine.

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

I love waking up to Sunday morning pancakes. The whole process of making them, just out in the kitchen together making pancakes on a Sunday morning; that’s an experience every girl should have.

The best way to take a punch is to look at it. Honestly. Someone could hit you with the hardest punch that they have, but as long as you see it, it’s not going to knock you out. It’s the punches that you don’t see that knock you out. So you could get tapped with a small punch, but if you don’t see it, you’re out.

I’m very anti-domestic violence.

I’m scared of failure so much more than any of the other girls I compete against that I work so much harder than they possibly could. I’m totally down with spiders and frogs and heights and snakes – everything; I’m cool with it.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

I might make an investment and lose some money, but that’s something I can recover from.

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.

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

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.

When women say that going on publications directed at men is somehow demeaning, I don’t think that’s true. I think that’s one really effective way to change the societal standard women are held to.

Bartending took the romanticism out of drinking.

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

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.

Buffalo wings and cider is all I need.

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.

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.

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’m the champion for a reason.

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

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.

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

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

Kids don’t like what they don’t understand, and judo was always my social outlet. I always felt really socially awkward, and I couldn’t speak very well when I was younger. When I was doing judo, it was something that I could understand and someplace where I felt that I belonged and fit in.

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

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.