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.

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 always wanted to box.

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.

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.

Focus on creating value by finding and solving problems for others.

Decisiveness is the number one quality of a dynamic leader

The perfection of art is to conceal the sources.

It was the duty of wives to submit to husbands, not of husbands to submit to wives. . . men have stronger muscles than women.

Let them that don't want none have memories of not gettin' any.

An award does not change the quality of a book.

The happiness of this world is something we cannot keep; it is just like the horizon - the nearer you go, the farther it goes. As soon as you get it, you see it is not the thing you wanted.

I have no desire to desire, and people become like the uncarved wood by themselves.

I know all about endings. It is beginnings that elude me.

I believe that one of the most important things to learn in life is that you can make a difference in your community no matter who you are or where you live.