Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Jessica Andrade - Page 2

I like fighting where my opponents are better.

I always consider myself to be the underdog.

Cris is fighter that I look up to, my style if very similar to hers. I like to go there, walk straight forward and beat someone, so it was great to hear people comparing me to Cyborg.

Meeting Marta, who she is as a person, and hanging out with her, seeing her watch my fight, screaming and cheering for me, being proud of me the same way I am proud of her, that's priceless. It was really cool. I never imagined that.

Women's MMA has evolved a lot.

Tecia is a tough opponent, both standing and on the ground, and has evolved a lot. She hits hard and can take a punch.

What's the point of hitting pads, landing 10,000 punches, and then landing punches that are soft as feathers in the fight? I hit hard.

I did it all, man. My father worked with planting, leasing the land and planting corn and beans, things like that. My brother and I helped to harvest. At the time of planting, we would go along too. I think that made me become the woman I am today, strong and focused.

I'm very close to Poliana Botelho, Virna Jandiroba and Amanda Ribas, too. It's like I always tell them: 'If we're going to fight, it might as well be for the belt. I don't want to fight you in a normal fight.'

I wasn't feeling well when I fought Joanna. I couldn't train the last few weeks because of a shoulder injury. I couldn't hold Joanna down.

Rose has a great striking. We can see her improvement, especially in her fights against Joanna. She's fast, has a bigger reach and is taller than me.

Everybody is good at something.

If Ronda isn't well-trained, someone will take her title home.

We don't like to fight other Brazilians, but it's pretty cool if there's a belt on the line.

To beat Shevchenko, you'd have to close the distance and work with strikes close to the cage to take away her energy, her strength, and work with the ground and pound or something like that.

Fighting your opponent's strengths is the key, you frustrate them on what they have best.

The strategy to beat Shevchenko would be to work non-stop and be all over her, striking the entire time, grabbing her to tire her out, and then work a different game plan on the next rounds. I think that's the best strategy to beat Shevchenko, but anything can change when the time comes.

If they want me against Jessica Eye, that's great. I will watch her fights and train hard to do another exciting fight for the fans.

I'm used to compete at 135 pounds, and I know I will always be shorter than my opponents.

We might think we don't, but everyone descends from native Brazilians. When Portuguese arrived here, everyone was native Brazilians, so I have that in my blood.

Rose had some openings that I could fit my game in. Even though she was taller than me and had a longer reach, I was stronger in short distance, my strikes connect better.

I look at Weili Zhang and see myself. She has heavy hands and if we exchange, I want to be better than her. When she fires, I want to be the sniper and her with a small pistol.

I wasn't the type of person to gain much weight after a fight, but at 115 I can be bigger and more powerful than my opponents.

After I beat Rose and won the belt, I heard too many comments along the lines of 'Oh, that was luck.' You think that doesn't get to you?

I'm very strong and I have enough cardio for three or five rounds if I have to.

Oh, I think Neymar would be a nice guy I'd like to meet. Messi, too. Cristiano Ronaldo. I think they are guys that their lives would encourage me. They would be nice people to meet and know more about their stories, to evolve and grow more with their stories. I think it would be cool to meet them.

My mom loved when I started training judo and jiu-jitsu because that wasn't hurting me. But when I took her for my first MMA fight, she was like, 'Baby, you're not really going to do this, right? To get punched in the face, please stop with that. Do jiu-jitsu, it's good, it won't get you hurt.'

I train with girls as strong as the ones I'm going to fight, so that's good.

It's complicated to stand and trade with me. My first hand lands and you already feel it.

All I wanted to do was play soccer. I used to tell my mom that I wanted to be like Marta, that I would be the best in the world and make her really proud, that she would see me on TV.

I'll fight anyone they put in front of me.

I was able to do nice things at 135, and came to 115 at the perfect time.

I was in great shape against 'Claudinha' and everyone saw a good show.

Height doesn't mean everything.

I don't like to talk trash. I'm a cool girl.

Joanna is a nice person. She helped me a lot before my fights at bantamweight.

Meeting Marta was one of the best things that ever happened in my life, and knowing that we're similar to each other. The training aspect, as a human being. We're really similar.

Girls felt my power at 135, so I believe I can cause the same effect at 125.

When we go through rough situations in life and reach the top, we thank God we had to go through all that.

Rose is a very versatile athlete, she works her striking well.