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

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.

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.

With trust in God, we can triumph in times of troubles.

If you don’t know history, you don’t know anything.”Edward Johnston

Your poetry is lonely. And yet, you write to feel less alone

Be prudent, diligent, temperate and discreet. Remember that every human being has a claim upon your kind offices.

You must survive with grace. You must do so gallantly. How archaic these terms seem to us in our modern world. There is little grace or gallantry in commerce or politics and not much in art.

I've... been accused of being involved with every man I'm ever seen with or worked with. Maybe I have, maybe I ain't. I never tell if I have.

It is impossible to believe that the same God who permitted His own son to die a bachelor regards celibacy as an actual sin.

Love becomes perfect only when it transcends itself --Becoming One with its object; Producing Unity of Being.

Tell me how much you know of the sufferings of your fellowmen and I will tell you how much you have loved them.

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.