Ronda Rousey Quotes

I can get a black eye, a bloody nose. I can have a bad day in the gym. At the end of the day, I don't have a bad payday, and I don't have a bad night under the lights... I get bumps, bruises... but I don't have a bad night.

When I make a tackle or make a play and I have a slight pain or something, you're going to react the way you react.

I couldn't change the fact that I did my ACL, but I could control how I reacted to it. That's what I focused on, becoming stronger mentally and physically.

You have injuries that bother you when you're not playing. When that horn blows, you don't feel it.

I'm quite used to playing with few injuries, whether it is back, fingers, elbow, or something else. You have to be tough and get on with the game.

I've dealt with a lot of injuries over the years, and you just learn about pain management and how to keep yourself in the best shape to play on Sunday, and then playing with pain.

You're going to hurt, yes. You're going to have tweaks and problems. But you're a football player; you can play through those.

It's tough to play well - or not that well - when you're injured.

They said if I could deal with the pain, I should play. So, I did, and for some reason, I started hitting. It was a weird thing. I don't know if it was because I couldn't do too much, and I was just trying to stay up through the middle and not hurt myself.

It's literally I'll be injured or hurt in some facet and I'll go work out to heal it, to make it get better so I can hold that tolerance level.

I don't like to give in to injuries. I don't like to use them as excuses. Everybody has them.

I have played with a torn bicep before. I have come back from a torn Achilles before. So I guess it's just in my DNA.

I can't dictate how I play because I'm injured. I've got to go out there and still play.

I thought it was a little ankle sprain, but it was a little more than that. The road to recovery was tough, but I knew that I had to fight. I couldn't be disappointed, I couldn't be sad, I just had to get up and keep the smile on my face and get back. In the sport I play, injuries are part of it.

I've played with a lot of injuries.

I've played through a lot of injuries before, as a young kid through high school.

That's probably the biggest difference from a hamstring to different injuries. You can play through pain with other injuries. But as I found out quickly with a hamstring, if you're feeling any pain, eventually, it's not going to work.

As an athlete, you are literally programmed to endure a specific amount of pain.

Injuries is a part of a sportsmen life; you have to live with it. You can't be down with that; it is not gonna help you.

I've played with IVs before, during and after games. I've played with a broken hand, a sprained ankle, a torn shoulder, a fractured tooth, a severed lip, and a knee the size of a softball. I don't miss 15 games because of a toe injury that everybody knows wasn't that serious in the first place.

I didn't think I was going to play that day. I'd have to thank the training staff for getting me on the field that day. They made a bigger deal than I thought it was.

There's a difference between playing hurt and playing injured.

I have a high tolerance for pain - both physical and mental.

I can't criticize an athlete if they say they're injured.

Strength doesn't mean an absence of pain.