Rose Namajunas Quotes

The day I step in the cage with Cyborg, I will be 100% prepared.

I've actually picked up a lot of good habits from just watching film from Demetrious Johnson.

I've been fighting professionally since I was 18, and I've been doing three or four fights a year, just doing camp after camp.

I'm always watching every featherweight that fights in the UFC because we can eventually fight in the future.

I had Jake Ellenberger. I trained very hard for him; then I was able to get Carlos Condit, an excellent fighter. That's what it's all about.

I always wanted to become a student of the game and at least get six to eight fights before coming to the UFC.

No fighter wants to risk getting ring rust.

I want to fight at middleweight.

Going into the UFC debut, you have to wonder what's going on, what's the workout going to be like. It's just an honor to be at an open workout.

I don't prepare myself for a specific fighter. I don't choose a fight to prepare myself for another fighter.

It's a really complicated road if you're an MMA fighter.

To do eleven fights in four months is pretty crazy. In some shows that we do in Asia, there are three or four fights over a six-month period, so you have time to recover and gain your stamina.

You have 20 fights, you should know what it takes to get yourself ready. If you don't feel like you're ready, you let your coach know 'hey we need to work on a little bit more of this.'

In the future, I want to have super-fights.

Chad Mendes, I'm hunting with all the time.

I haven't fought for a while and didn't want a warm-up fight. I wanted to jump right back in the pit and I got what I asked for. I got Anthony Pettis.

I've been in the fight business my whole life. I know fighters.

I'll fight in both divisions, 185 and 205. I feel good. That's a choice for the boss, where Dana wants me to fight. It's no problem.

I want to fight a UFC fighter.

As the fighter, you're the one getting in the ring, you're the one risking injuries, you're the one risking your life - not only on the day of the fight, but in training camp. You're getting punched, you're training, you're sparring. You have to make sure that it's worth the risk - the compensation, the terms, the fights that you want.

From the very beginning, every time I trained for a fight, I didn't train to beat the guy I was fighting. I trained to beat Anderson Silva.

I'm a fighter. I'm not a promoter and I'm not a manager so I leave that up to my manager and my promoter and I just fight.

You know, I'm never really 100-percent in any of those fights, because it's so hard to have perfect preparation for fighting and cutting weight and making 170 pounds, and being in the best shape for training camp and to make that cut.

I treat every camp the same. Every fight since my debut has always been a must-win.

If I could have had the opportunity to be a full-time fighter while I was one of the best in the world, what could I have done then?