Alexa Bliss Quotes

A big misconception is that women shouldn't be in the UFC because we fight 'like girls,' but I think women have some of the most exciting fights.

People like myself have been pushing, competing, and promoting female MMA for a long time, and to see the fans accept a female division in the UFC so quickly is vindication that all that hard work amounted to something.

I can appreciate anybody's passion for anything.

I'm a hard worker and I really give to my fans through my shows.

I'm a woman who's been in a man's sport since the age of 15, and to see people finally seeing what I saw right from the start, that female fighters are just as good 'pound-for-pound' as our male counterparts.

Women's MMA has come a really long way. People look forward to us fighting, and they get excited.

You can have a fight card full of male fights, but yet when that women's fight comes on, that's what people watch. They're super excited by it.

We are at a point now where people respect us and respect our work - the guys want to sit down and watch women's matches.

There are so many fans and so many people who care deeply about this game, and it is because of these fans that we are who we are as cricketers.

It's great to see there's a push behind women's MMA because everyone who's involved in women's MMA is very passionate about it.

Can you do inter-gender matches? Ronda Rousey and our match at Wrestlemania - sure, it can be done. Women don't need a man in their match to steal the show. They just need an equal platform and opportunity, and if the women have it, they will work just as hard, if not harder, than anybody else to steal that show.

Any one of my shoes that I had, you knew that, night in, night out, I gave my teammates and my fans everything that I had.

I think with the Mae Young Classic, bringing in 30 women from all over the world shows what an impact women have in the company.

To go from hit-and-miss promotions barely taking women's fighting seriously to women headlining on a regular basis, high-level fights, it's an amazing thing to see. And it happened in what I felt was a pretty quick succession - though not fast enough - as far as professional sports go. It's really exciting.

Women today are respected as athletes now and that's a really cool thing to see.

Regardless if I made it or not, I really wanted women's MMA to be a real thing.

My role models are every single woman that steps inside of the cage - inside of an octagon, inside a ring, or on a mat - and proves to themselves and to others that they can do what they need to do. Those are my heroes. Those are my sheroes. Those are the people that I look up to.

I hope that the fans know that we always show heart.

Jess Ennis, Chrissie Ohuruogu, Vicky Pendleton and Laura Trott, to name a few, have acted as female role models in England.

I think the legacy Ronda leaves behind is that she changed women's MMA.

Women's combat sports have been on a good run in the United States. Claressa Shields won a gold medal in women's boxing at the London Olympics in 2012, when it became a medal sport. American women won medals in taekwondo and judo as well.

There's no secret it's hard work. Even though Brian's the love of my life, and he's absolutely adorable, it's not easy, and we have to work at it. But because we love each other and keep working at it, it pays off.

I've proved I'm in love with the women's game, and I think the quality is unbelievable.

I fight for the women. I try to do my best inside the Octagon to fight like a man; then, people will respect girls in the Octagon.

Ronda Rousey, arguably... I mean, she might've been the one that actually started the whole 'Divas Revolution' by being so awesome in UFC.