Rose Namajunas Quotes

I'm not the kind of guy you threaten.

I get paralyzingly nervous a lot of times, so I tried bravado. The way I dress and carry myself, a lot of people find it intimidating. I think my whole career can be boiled down to the one word I always say in meetings: 'strength.'

Nobody picks on a strong man.

They think because I'm small, they can do what they want to do to me. But I'm not weak. If I lower my shoulder and they lower they're shoulder, they're going to go down.

Be brave and be fearless, and for God's sake, stand up for yourself.

I wouldn't want to get in the ring with me, I can promise you that.

It was just bred in me that I would not back down to guys who were bigger than me.

I don't need a huge pit bull to tell me I'm tough.

I did a lot of tae kwon do and branched off into other stuff later on, but tae kwon do is great. It was my equalizer. That was how I was able to survive in the land of the giants. Thank God for that.

Once you've found something you know how to do, it makes you feel you don't have to be intimidated by someone.

I refuse to be pushed around anymore.

I stand up to people.

I'm not intimidated by anyone.

You can't let yourself be pushed around. You can't live in fear. I mean, some people do live in fear. You can't live in fear. That's no way to live your life.

Nobody scares me.

If I have to be fierce, I'll be fierce.

I don't apologize to people who try to intimidate.

And if you think that anybody is going to frighten me, you don't know me yet.

I had to learn not to let anyone push me around, to be brave and to say things I knew might make people mad.

You can either hope and pray you don't get picked on, or you can, in a way, almost make yourself a bigger target, because it's harder to bully something that's really big. It's easy to bully something that's small and frail.

I'm very strong and very confident.

I am a tough guy.

Being fierce is a compliment! It's not an insult.

I'm not scared of anybody.

You know what's cooler than being the richest guy in the room? Being the toughest guy in the room.