Ronda Rousey Quotes

I started when I was in college because I was shy and thought it would be a good way to break out of that.

I've gotten over my shyness from many years of doing public events.

I was shy when I was a kid, I was very shy, but now I think I've improved a lot. I can speak OK with the media and with the people. My English is still bad but I feel a little bit better now than before.

I was one of those weird children that just couldn't talk to people, so I kind of had to make myself be not like that because I knew it was going to hinder me.

I used to be very shy, much more so than I am now. It's great that I've improved in that regard. Every day, I'm getting better and less... embarrassed.

I'm quite shy. Really. I'm trying to expand myself as a person more, get involved with people.

I have a really hard time meeting people, so I wanted to take classes to get out of my social shell. Eventually, I opened up and realized, 'Wow, I really enjoy this.'

My first language was shy. It's only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.

I've gotten better at not making people feel uncomfortable with my shyness.

Overcoming my shyness has been a lifelong struggle.

If I walk into a room, I'm quite content to sit in the corner and chat with people who walk by. But coaching forced me to come out of my shell.

I didn't know how to get along with others. I didn't even know how to be in the same room with other people. Then, after a while, you learn.

As a young guy I was really shy, more shy than I am now.

When I was younger, I barely talked. I was scared of people. I had to learn how to cultivate that confidence.

Now I can walk into a room full of people I don't know and do my job. That's quite a massive thing to learn, I think.

I'm still a shy person. I've learned to put that aside on certain occasions. I have to. It's part of my job.

People may have found it difficult to approach me, and I realised it and have worked on it. I used to be socially shy. Now I have become a social animal. I go out, meet and interact with people.

I was a chronically shy child. That kernel of my younger self is still there, but I've developed mechanisms to deal with it.

People still make me nervous, but gradually over the years I've developed kind of like a public personality, so I can talk. I have my spiel, I have my stories.

I went to stage school with a neighbor to build confidence because I was quite shy.

Even when you're out with someone, you need to get out of your head. And you can try exercises by putting yourself in situations where you may not feel completely comfortable, like going to a gallery opening on your own.

I am innately very shy, and I have struggled with that challenge for years.

I think the shyness one feels in childhood is often overcome with time. There are children who hide behind their parents' legs, but you don't see grown-ups hiding behind people. It just doesn't happen. I mean, not that often. People develop social skills over time.

I was extremely shy. I am still shy, but I won't show it on stage.

I used to be really insular, really introverted. I couldn't articulate myself.