Top 104 Quotes & Sayings by Rose Namajunas
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Last updated on December 23, 2024.
I think that's what makes me so great of a fighter. I'm crazy as hell. And fighting helps me with that.
I have overcome some demons in my path.
I just wish there were a little more peace in the world.
Martial arts is about honor and respect.
I think it's important to inspire other people to try and do things that people discourage you to do.
All the scars on my body, all the bumps and bruises, all the muscles - that is a story of everything I have done. And it's not just my story. My ancestors who came before me gave me this vessel to sculpt and mold.
I've got Pat 'HD' Barry in my corner.
I feel like we have a duty as fighters to try and be a better example.
I'm successful every day because I look in the mirror, and I'm happy with who I am.
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'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.
It takes a lot of courage in that cage no matter who you are.
Oh, man - I don't have just one favorite fighter, but I draw from many different aspects of each fighter. But I will say, just going back in the history of the UFC, just kind of trying to learn from each fighter, I've been looking at Brock Lesnar, all the things he did for the UFC back in the day, and his attitude and things like that.
Sometimes when you push something or you force something too much, the progress doesn't happen the way it should.
I think there's a lot of mental instability in this whole country.
I want to encourage people to be nicer to each other, to be nicer to themselves.
People think after the fight you get to sit around and relax and all that. But really, people come around and family and all that, so it's a whole 'nother responsibility you have to take care of.
To me, fighting is special because that's what I enjoy to do. Every fight is a memory to me.
When I force things, it just doesn't go well.
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.
I've done taekwondo striking my entire life.
Nobody's the same. So, I think that people benefit in different things than others.
What's the point of being the best in the world if you scratch and claw your way to the top, and you push everybody down instead of lifting everybody else up with you?
Me being the best in the world, it doesn't mean that much to me if I'm not a good person at the end of the day, if I'm not setting a good example for other people to be better to each other.
In order to survive, I created a certain type of aura about myself that I was the baddest chick walking down the street. Anytime somebody underestimates me, Thug Rose comes out.
I'm like a tree. My leaves might change color, but my roots are the same.
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 you want to be a fighter, you have to give it everything you got. MMA just became who I am because of the amount of work I was putting into my training. It all starts in the gym. The hours turn into days, days into weeks, and weeks into months; it's like school - the more time you spend learning, the better you'll be prepared for a test.
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 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.
It's great that mixed martial arts allows people to still be in touch with their animal side and duke it out in a cage, but I think it's important: we're still nurturing beings, and we should still have compassion for each other.
I used to fight with hate. There's been a lot of aggression in my past growing up and stuff. That's because I was hurt myself.
Of course, fighting is one of the most emotional things that you can possibly do. You have to constantly deal with your emotions, especially myself. I have so many that that's where I get my energy from. But it's a matter of controlling them, and yeah, I just don't let nothing affect me.
I feel like anything can be worked out; you just gotta talk through it as adults.
There's a process to everything. If you fast track or make shortcuts in any way, and you get too much of one thing, you're just out of balance.
I'm always trying to improve, and you can't ever expect anything from me. You can always just expect me to be dangerous.
All I can do is make sure I show up to fight, and then they have no choice but to pay me.
I'm just here to show up and fight and then get my money and go home.
I respect my competition.
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.
There's pros and cons to everything, and I choose to look at the positives.
Everybody's one fight away from getting a title shot if they step in on short notice for somebody.
People are gonna go up and down and people are gonna come in and out of this sport.
Your mind is just like your body. It's a muscle you can train and get better at.
You just keep a positive attitude no matter what comes in your way - challenges, roadblocks - don't let it faze you, and you can overcome anything.
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.
I live in a very nice neighborhood. There's nothing that really goes on around here.
I think we have a great opportunity as fighters and athletes to be good role models. I'm by no means perfect, but I think we can try.
I wanna fight the best.
We're not just fighters, we're entertainers.
I feel like I can go all the way for the belt and hold it awhile.
Any mistakes that I make is an investment in my future.
I'm sick of all the hate and anger and stuff like that going on.
We need the villain sometimes. It makes for an interesting story.
When I'm totally in tune with myself, and I'm flowing, it don't matter who I'm fighting; that's just a problem for anybody.
All I can control is myself and just keep having a positive attitude.
I love spoiling a party. I love it when someone is on a roll and just messin' that up.
All my jabs, they're all different. I have a million different jabs.
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.
Every fight is personal, but with myself.
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