Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Polish athlete Joanna Jedrzejczyk.
Last updated on November 21, 2024.
Joanna Jędrzejczyk is a Polish former professional mixed martial artist and Muay Thai kickboxer. She has been called the greatest female strawweight mixed martial artist of all time, including by Daniel Cormier, who credited her with putting the weight class "on the map". Jędrzejczyk holds several records in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), where she is a former UFC Women's Strawweight Champion, including most successful strawweight title defenses (5), most consecutive wins at strawweight (8), and is the first Polish champion and first female European champion.
Slowly, step-by-step, I will reach my goals and my dreams.
I believe in people so badly and I love when people treat me the same way.
It's MMA. I'm a complete MMA fighter. I expect everything. I'm ready for all of it.
I'm enjoying my life as a fighter, but more as a human and this is what matters.
I don't like to predict the fights. People can do that. They can predict my fights, but I never do that.
I'm not cocky. I'm not arrogant. I know my value.
100 Muay Thai, boxing, and kickboxing fights. Six times world Muay Thai champion, five times European Muay Thai champion, very dominant UFC champion for three years. I know my legacy. They can say whatever they want to, but I'm huge.
I like to fight on the ground. I'm learning every day. I think I'm good.
I want to be the first champion of the 125-pound division.
I talk with my body in the Octagon the day of the fight.
I used to starve myself to death.
People can doubt me, and they'll do that forever, but show me a better, cleaner fighter in the UFC or in general.
I'm very hard on myself everyday, you can ask my coaches, and after a good training session, I'm not happy because I know I can do better or change something to do better, you know?
Even though I moved to Florida, I'm still Polish.
I want to have my own kids, I want to raise them and just be a happy grandma.
I was 16, I just wanted to do something in my life. I wanted to be healthy, I wanted to lose some weight and I went for my first training. In the beginning I didn't know what Muay Thai meant. You know? But I liked it so much, and after six months of training I had my first competition in Poland. I won, and after that I knew that I wanted to do it.
I follow Ronda. I am big fan of her. She is simply the best for me.
We all are different. Our lives are different.
I must cut lots of weight. Isn't nice, but it's part of my job and I can make it very easy.
Lots of luck to Paige VanZant. I met her a few times. She's very nice girl.
I don't do fights on Twitter.
I cannot let my opponents get into my head.
People used to call me violent, savage.
For myself, I'm still little Joanna from the hood - from a small town in Poland, and I'm still having my goals, my dreams.
I have so much respect for Rose Namajunas, same as I had before the first fight.
Who's the real queen? Hell yeah, hell yeah. Bow down, I'm the real queen!
I'm a professional athlete, I'm a businesswoman and I know who I am.
You never talk bad about your teammates, doesn't matter if you like them or not.
Reebok has consistently shown that fitness is truly demanding.
When I must be mean, I'm mean. When I can be nice, I am nice.
I'm a big fan of Conor, and I'm a big fan of Khabib.
For me the more important thing is fighting. You know, training, fighting. The sports side. I didn't choose my media life.
I cannot help that I'm simply the best.
I want to be the best. I have my goals, my dreams.
I've got talent from my gut and I did my job to show to everyone that I'm simply the best.
No, I am not impressed with Karolina Kowalkiewicz.
You can have the perfect plan through the first punch but then you have to take the fight second by second.
I always have good feelings in America and I like it so much.
If I would become a champion at 125, I will jump between 115 and 125.
I want to show to everyone that I am simply the best.
The strawweight division may be the lightest division in the UFC, but we are very tough fighters.
It's my business. Fighting, it's my business. It's my job.
I never take fights personal and I'm not emotional when I'm fighting.
I'm Joanna Champion.
You can be an underdog, but you can beat the champion.
Everyone knows I'm very close to my family, my hometown, my homeland.
I couldn't care what people are saying or not saying because I have my own life. I know who I am, I know who is Joanna Jedrzecjzyk. And I know who I want to be.
Every fighting career is different.
I like to break the records, break the limits.
I believe a training plan that involves MMA techniques is a sure way to being fit.
I always wanted to talk to Ronda about how she felt the night before that night that she lost to Holly Holm.
Since I moved to American Top Team, I feel like I'm the bird that got to escape from its cage, if you know that meaning.
People know me only from the Octagon, from the gym. I'm a different person outside and I am who I want to be.
I have almost 100 Muay Thai fights, so I used to train and fight with really tough kickers.
I want to be a legend.
Maybe some people think that it's all about the hype, about the fame, but it's not. It's all about being the best. It's all about challenging myself everyday.
You know why I'm so confident? Because I am working so hard every day. That's why I am different than the other fighters and my opponents and the challengers. That's why.
I want people to talk about me in five, 10 years, 20 years, that I was one of the best female MMA fighters, that I was one of the best UFC champions in the world back in the day. This is what I want.
Maybe I'm the baddest chick on the planet, maybe I'm the baddest woman in the Octagon, but I'm definitely emotional.