As An Athlete You're Taught To Be

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.

The Kind Of Hope I'm Talking About Is The Belief That Something Good Will Come. That Everything You're Going Through And Everything You've Gone Through Will Be Worth The Struggles And Frustrations. The Kind Of Hope I'm Talking About Is A Deep Belief That The World Can Be Changed, That The Impossible Is Possible.

I Kind Of Like To Think Of Myself As The Bad Girl Olympian That Would Get Kicked Out Of The Miss America Pageant.

The Olympics Is A Once-in-a-lifetime Thing. I Was Lucky Enough To Go Twice, But Most People Only Get One Chance. And In Judo You Can Train Your Whole Life And It’ll Come Down To A Split Second: You Can Lose Everything Or Win Anything.

Even Before I Was A Fighter, I Was A Daddy's Girl.