Ronda Rousey
Ronda Rousey
Ronda Jean Rouseyis an American mixed martial artist, judoka, and actor. Rousey was the first U.S. woman to earn an Olympic medal in judo, which she won at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. She is the former UFC Women's Bantamweight Champion, as well as the last Strikeforce Women's Bantamweight Champion. She won twelve consecutive MMA fights, six in the Ultimate Fighting Championship, before suffering her first and only loss to Holly Holm; she won eleven of those fights in...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMMA Fighter
Date of Birth1 February 1987
CityRiverside, CA
CountryUnited States of America
In MMA it's a lot less intimidating because it's not like you get one shot at a title every four years. You get a title shot every couple of months With the Olympics, you don't always have this, so there is so much more pressure involved.
One thing that I learned from judo... Maximum efficiency and minimum effort.
I'm a courageous person because I'm a scared person.
I think that Floyd Mayweather is the best boxer that's ever lived; like actual technical boxer.
My one fear is failure and that's one fear I have to face all the time. Yes, it's uncomfortable to be scared but I'm finally comfortable being uncomfortable.
Complimenting yourself is the funnest form of manifestation.
Fear of failure is always a driver but the thirst for more is a good one too... So I think you need a little bit of both.
I've coached doing judo, but I've never coached MMA. I'll have my own coach with me to help me along the way and I can't really fail with him by my side, but I'm a little nervous.
No one is easy until you actually beat them.
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 don't want little girls to have the same ambitions as me. But I want them to know that it's okay to be ambitious.
If you're fighting with emotion instead of structure... it's always going to be a mistake.
Judo taught me that I am capable of anything... I can mentally push past anything and be victorious.
When I looked at the state of women's MMA, what I saw was that it was missing rivalries or anything theatrical about it. Everybody was trying to be Miss America, unwilling to go under any kind of criticism, and taking the safe answers. I thought I needed to do whatever I could to get attention.