Fighting's given me confidence but it's also broken me down and kept me humble.
Fight night is all about believing in yourself, believing in what you can do, and doing it.
I find that whoever you are as a person is how you're gonna fight, and every basic instinct kind of comes out at that moment.
I know I'm always rooting for the underdog in a fight, and I love to be constantly surprised.
People want to put you in the box, and you just have to fight past their preconceived notions.
A lot of people enjoyed the film 'Haywire' and a lot of people have mixed feelings on it but regardless, a lot of people have said really wonderful things about it being my first experience, that the fighting they absolutely enjoyed. So I think I've gotten a lot more fans, actually.
Since I've started fighting it has taught me a lot about self respect, self confidence and self control.
I've had cameras on me since I started the art of fighting and I think that I'm used to having cameras on me in adrenaline-type situations.
I think I came up in fighting in a really technical way. If you've ever seen my fights, you know I love distance, I love technique.
Fighting is very physical and extreme and you're very vulnerable. It's a very mental type of thing.
When you fight someone, you share the experience with that one person, and you’re never going to have that experience with someone else-even in another fight.
My first fight. I fought a girl that was a little bit heavier, a little bit more experienced and I was petrified because I didn't know what I was getting myself into. And I did really well against her and nobody believed it was my first fight.
Of course, fighting is not going to be as graceful as movie fighting. I don't like it to be ugly and I don't like it to be one big brawl or people clobbering each other.
There are certain things that I always dreamed of, like fighting in the UFC. There's just certain things that I feel like haven't been accomplished there. There's such great women coming up in the sport; seems like a wonderful time to be in women's MMA.
I like fighting because it's honest.
Fighting is my career, it's what I love to do, but I am taking offers and trying to expand because the more I expand myself, the more valuable I become to promoters.
I don't get paid what people think I get paid for fighting.
