I think that going on any reality show is not good for your mental health because you behave differently when you are being watched, and you constantly have an extra bit of awareness of what's going on all the time.

Being an athlete, you try to get protein.

Look at my face. Does it look like I can take a good hit?

If I could have had everything exactly the way I wanted, this is how I would have written it down. Win all my fights in the first round, then go to the UFC and headline a show, and have it as a pay-per-view and at home. People's dreams don't come true like that.

At home, I watch fights and documentaries - that's it. If it's not about the birth and death of stars, 'Frozen Planet,' or someone getting punched in the face, I'm probably not watching it.

For me, MMA is like speed chess. It's like I'm herding a person into a certain position. Say my endgame is an arm bar. I'm not gonna actually take you and put you there. What I'm going to do is convince you that it's a good idea to move in the direction I want you to go.

I respect Georges St. Pierre as a businessman and an athlete. I don't have anything against him personally. But he's not the kind of fighter I like watching.

I don't shy away from any questions. I'm not scared of any question. I'll give you an answer. A lot of people are scared of having actual opinions out there. People are so scared of criticism... I'm not scared of people disliking me.

Most people get scared away from having an opinion. It's not so much my opinions everybody relates to, it's that I don't care about being punished for it.

It's not my responsibility to make everything I say idiot-proof.

People can say I am a terrible role model because I swear all the time or that I fight people. Look, I don't want little girls to have the same ambitions as me. I want them to know that it is O.K. to be ambitious. I want them to know that it is O.K. to say whatever it is that is on their mind.

Believe me, there's nothing I would like to do more than disappear for a while.

I'm selling a product, and I have to be out there; I don't have the option not to be.

What I'm really looking to do is retire undefeated; I'm not sure when the right time to retire will be, but I know that I'm not done yet. Something still feels unfinished, and that's why I'm going to keep going.

A lot of my best clothes I buy at photo shoots because I don't have time to shop.

I like to be part of the change I want to see in the world. Not being afraid of criticism is actually a big advantage.

I'm the champion because I'm the best in every area.

I was just a little three-year-old kid, and I loved Hulk Hogan. And when you're a three-year-old kid, you don't list off the reasons. I was just drawn to him. He was always my favorite, even in the video games and everything like that. He was the one that I always remembered and liked the most.

Mine's going to be the best book tour that ever happened!

After I defended my title the first time when I beat Sarah Kaufman, I went back to my room, and my friend ordered all these trays of hot wings. They came into the room, and the little hotel sheet thing was draped over it, and I go to open it up, and it's breaded and boneless. I cried.

I'm scared of failure so much more than any of the other girls I compete against that I work so much harder than they possibly could. I'm totally down with spiders and frogs and heights and snakes - everything; I'm cool with it.

I was painfully shy for a long time. I mean, that's something I really had to work my way out of. And I really think it was because, after the 2008 Olympics, I spent a whole year bartending. It was the one thing that really forced me to be just not so scared to start conversations with strangers.

I just like when a guy dresses for comfort, to be honest. If he takes longer to get ready than I do, that's a deal breaker.

Judo was one of those sports where they give you guidelines but then try to tell you to develop your own style.

Nobody's easy until after you beat them.

I was in a weight-cutting sport, in judo, so I had to be a certain weight on a deadline. It kind of pushed me into having a really unhealthy relationship with food in my teens. I felt like if I wasn't exactly on weight, I wasn't good-looking.

I might make an investment and lose some money, but that's something I can recover from.

I don't think politicians should be allowed to take money for their campaigns from outside interests.

I'm voting for Bernie Sanders because he doesn't take any corporate money.

I'm a huge fan of wrestling, and I would like to see the position of women in the sport continue to improve, so if I can be a part of it, great.

I'm really encouraged by the progress I've seen with what they're doing with the women in WWE, but I feel like there's a lot more than can be done.

Some girls sit around and watch 'Gossip Girl' together. Me and my girlfriends watch 'Raw' and 'SmackDown.'

The best way to take a punch is to look at it. Honestly. Someone could hit you with the hardest punch that they have, but as long as you see it, it's not going to knock you out. It's the punches that you don't see that knock you out. So you could get tapped with a small punch, but if you don't see it, you're out.

I feel like I can go all the way for the belt and hold it awhile.

When I'm totally in tune with myself, and I'm flowing, it don't matter who I'm fighting; that's just a problem for anybody.

All my jabs, they're all different. I have a million different jabs.

Sometimes when you push something or you force something too much, the progress doesn't happen the way it should.

People are gonna go up and down and people are gonna come in and out of this sport.

I wake up every morning trying to be a new, better person and version of myself. I never try and be the same thing. So that's what's going to be hard for girls to keep up with me, because I'm always ever-evolving my style.

When I force things, it just doesn't go well.

I don't necessarily know about the rankings. I always like to look at it as, it's the person with the belt, and it's everybody else.

Everybody's one fight away from getting a title shot if they step in on short notice for somebody.

Nobody's the same. So, I think that people benefit in different things than others.

It's really nice to know that hard work does pay off.

That's what I want to do when I finish fighting - build urban farms and learn how to become a farmer, because that's what I wanted to be when I was a little girl.

My dream is to be a farmer myself, but also to provide opportunities to others who don't have the land or the resources, in order to grow food themselves and teach them how to do it.

Wrestling and kickboxing, like martial arts, combine a handful of skills. They're really an art form.

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.

I want to be the most influential champion, in a positive light. I want to change the world.

I feel like I can go all the way for the belt and hold it awhile.