Joanna Jedrzejczyk Quotes

I've trained hundreds of hundreds of rounds of sparring at American Top Team.

I train at American Top Team, the biggest team in the world, and I have every type of training.

I started training for MMA when I was 18 years old. My jujitsu coach told me, 'Amanda, you should try MMA.' Since that moment, I got in love with this sport and haven't stopped.

Yeah, I get to fight in 'Eclipse.' My trainer is teaching me MMA right now. So. Cool.

I started doing MMA and boxing at the same time - I always wanted to try an MMA fight to see what it was like. I had one fight, and I was hooked.

When I train for a fight, you roll around, you catch someone in a move, you let them go. You just let go and keep going.

I'm not a matchmaker; I don't run the UFC - I'm a fighter. So I'll stick to doing what I do best: training and punching people.

I've got to become 'The ultimate Ultimate Fighter.'

I'm a huge UFC fan. I train. I do jiu-jitsu, taekwondo.

For me the more important thing is fighting. You know, training, fighting. The sports side. I didn't choose my media life.

But I got into MMA for the sport. I love fighting.

I want to fight a UFC fighter.

I'm always training to fight the best fighters in the world, and if the UFC wants me to fight Georges St-Pierre, then I will fight him.

I like to train and then step in the cage and do my job. This is the thing that I like to do.

When you think about mixed martial arts, you have to think about the entire scope of the athlete.

For me, I've been a part of a super-team in Team Alpha Male for so much of my career.

I respect all the fighters. I respect Georges St-Pierre because Georges has a great story in the UFC. I respect all the fighters in here because this is the biggest sport in the world.

I have the best style to defeat the best pound-for-pound fighter in the world - Demetrious Johnson.

Train hard, get good coaching, and don't forget that its mixed martial arts. Don't get tied into one style of fighting, and focus on multiple disciplines.

If I don't have a division in the UFC, I'm going to go to another company like Rizin or Bellator or another organization where they have my division.

People can doubt me, and they'll do that forever, but show me a better, cleaner fighter in the UFC or in general.

As a 4-year-old, I saw two men competing in the ring, and I thought it was martial arts. I asked my parents if I could do martial arts. So, I was 5 or 6-years-old, and I was doing karate and jiu-jitsu. Later on, I started kickboxing. Then, it just progressed. I did a little bit of everything, but predominantly, I did kickboxing.

I was in my junior year of high school and I had been playing soccer and basketball almost my entire life, and I wanted a change of pace. I wanted to do something more, something different. That's when I found an MMA gym about 45 minutes from my house and fell in love with the idea of becoming a professional fighter.

It's easy to enter the UFC, but staying there isn't.

I'm getting to put all my time and effort into studying my martial arts and to be the best fighter I can be.