Diana Lopez Quotes

With taekwondo, anything can happen, really. You get bad days; you get good days of training, so you've just got to hope that you're on it on your day.

If I stay healthy and I'm playing good tennis I have as good a chance as anybody.

As long as I'm in great shape, nobody beats me, for sure.

I believe in my power and boxing skills.

My team has helped me improve in many factors - speed, power, experience, the mental game; how I see the fight game is different.

I'm going to show I'm the best fighter in the world.

I'm getting more confident in what I can do in the ring, and that just comes with hard work and training.

When I'm feeling comfortable at home, confident in my day-to-day, being healthy and being the best person I can be, MMA is easy.

When I step forward on the floor, I have the confidence that I'm the best player playing that night and that I am the most prepared at what I need to be doing.

I always trained with men, and always had to use all my power and strength to win in the gym. When I tapped men in training, I thought if I finished a man, the fight will be easy. But that's not how it works and not how I should think. A fight is completely different, and that became an issue.

I'm just going to do what I always do: train. And when it's time to fight, I go fight.

If I was really trying to be the best fighter in the world, I would be in the best shape and taking it more serious but I'm not.

Actually, when I don't have a fight I'm training the hardest because I'm not worried about getting hurt.

I've taught martial arts to many children, from 5 years old and up - there's character development, there's respect, discipline, perseverance.

I just try to be the best fighter I can be.

The one thing that I always encourage women who want to be WWE Divas to do is have something you are passionate about. For me it was Jiu-Jitsu and martial arts. For some people it's soccer. Whatever it is, it gives you confidence and that will translate.

I always thought I could be pretty good, and it turns out fighting has made me happy.

I love who I am, and I want to stay in MMA.

I don't abuse my body, I've been off 10 months, I still train and I'm always thinking about boxing, so I felt like I would be fine and I just wanted to challenge myself against another top caliber fighter.

I was in martial arts starting at the age of 14, and I got my black belt by the time I was 18. Soon after, I was teaching an entire school, with about 150 students. It was unbelievably intense because of the self-awareness part of becoming a black belt.

I did martial arts and karate for eight years when I was growing up.

My dad had premature gray. I was always the one with the most energy, the one who continued to practice longer. I ran up and down the stairs of different stadiums. I didn't feel the need to cover up the fact that I was losing my hair or it was graying. When you're on a team, age is only a factor when you're talking in the locker room.

I'm in control of what I'm doing physically and mentally. I feel good. I've always felt confident and comfortable going into seasons, but each year I feel like I'm getting better and better.

I love to prepare if it's something that requires training. But I don't like to prepare the psychology too much.

I cannot control what goes on in another lane and this is how I focus on the Games. There is no point in being nervous of other swimmers. It's just about focusing on yourself and what you need to do in order to perform at your best.