I always wanted to box.

It's not the black belt that you wear on your waist. It's the black belt in your heart and knowing that you can go out there and you can do it. That's what a true black belt is.

You had women's kickboxing and they're in the ring and that's what I want to do. I just wanted to fight.

Through Biblical times, there have been great women warriors and now the sport is so populated that these are the women warriors that we have today in boxing, kickboxing, and MMA.

I am a woman and I don't have the power and the strength of a man, so I have to use my technique and my strategy more than just using brute strength like some of the guys do.

Fighters before a fight, they shouldn't get riled up.

The belts to me, they don't really mean much to be honest. It's the people who I fought and me going out there competing and fighting.

Belts are immaterial. What's material to me is who have you fought, how many rounds have you fought, how many fights have you fought.

It takes a lot when you are a professional fighter to stay in top condition. You have to sacrifice a lot and I did.

Either get on the boat or get off the boat.

I feel that when you are a world champion, your title has to be taken away from you.

It's no longer time to take sides for or against race, rather sides against those who still do.

If you really want to be world class - to be the best you can be - it comes down to preparation and practice.

Choices are easy when you have nothing to lose.

You can't live life being afraid, because fear censors ambition.

Inspiration is an awakening, a quickening of all man's faculties, and it is manifested in all high artistic achievements.

No frozen-hearted woman ever I laid eyes on but has made duty her religion.

Leadership defines what the future should look like, aligns people with that vision, and inspires them to make it happen despite the obstacles.

Satyagraha is a process of educating public opinion, such that it covers all the elements of the society and in the end makes itself irresistible.

We shape our God, and then our God shapes us.

We mirror God's mercy to us when we forgive another.