Either get on the boat or get off the boat.

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.

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.

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

I do not believe in any religion, I will have nothing to do with immortality. We are miserable enough in this life without speculating upon another.

You will live in me always. Your words, your heart, your soul are all part of me. My heart is full of your memories. Thank you for the gift of your life. I will never forget you.

When you put yourself and your interest ahead of the people you intend to serve, it doesn't take long to find out that it's a recipe for disappointment.

And here I was thinking you were a bit slow, what with so much asking and not knowing anything.

Mature Woman: Is a woman who has lived her life enough to understand what she wants, and she is confident in knowing who she is without question.

The essence of true friendship, in my view, is to make allowances for one another's little lapses.

I'm lucky to have worked with great actors, my whole career.

Translated books rarely get reviewed in the press. Books or poems or works of art that don't seem to have a corresponding style or figure or theme, obviously they're hard to digest.

Girls with the beauty-and-brains thing going on are the most intimidating girls in the world.

I think of myself as a beginner. Sometimes that's the whole joy. If you could just do it, there'd be no point in doing it.