Ronda Rousey Quotes

When I've done gymnastics, ballet or soccer - I was always trying to be the best. I'm really driven. Really driven.

Moving up and fighting the best keeps me hungry.

I enjoy competing, and I love to get out there, and I feel like I could compete with anyone in the world, and it took me a long time to get like that.

I want to challenge the best, and I'm ready.

I love putting a chip on my shoulder. It's just more motivation to go out there and show my ability.

If I have a centre back giving me stick, I want to score and say, 'shut your mouth!' It makes me strive, man.

As long as I'm healthy and feeling good, I will compete with anybody.

I'll see trash talk and people telling me why they're favorite fighter is going to beat me. It motivates me for sure.

Having guys ranked in front of me that I know that I'm better than, that's always going to drive me.

I love when people doubt me. I love when people don't think that I'm good enough to play at a certain level, not good enough to be a starter, things like that. That's the stuff that drives me.

I play this game to be the best, and it doesn't matter what other people say, I think I'm pretty damn good.

I'm a fighter, I'm a winner, and I'm not interested in just battling my team-mate for the back of the grid.

I'm hungrier than those other guys out there. Every rebound is a personal challenge.

I wrestled as a 90-pounder, and I wrestled in the 107-pound class in my first year. I had something inside of me. I could not stand not to compete. And I don't know why... I don't know what that's all about. But that's deep inside of Doug Harvey.

What drives me is winning championships.

Everyone has egos, and you want to come out on top. You have to pick yourself up and go at it again.

Something inside of me just said 'Hey, wait a minute, I want to beat him,' and I just took off.

I always want to think of myself as an underdog.

It's that athlete's obsessiveness - the need to prove yourself and work harder than anybody else. I think it's what helped me do well in the theater.

When you've got something to prove, there's nothing greater than a challenge.

I want to do everything, and I don't think that's too ambitious.

I believe that one can aspire to as much as one wants to.

I think of myself not just as a dreamer, but as a dream chaser.

The nature of human beings is that we're competitive, and the chances are there's someone out there who's going to work harder than you and want it more than you.

A competitor will find a way to win. Competitors take bad breaks and use them to drive themselves just that much harder. Quitters take bad breaks and use them as reasons to give up. It's all a matter of pride.