Rose Namajunas Quotes: The Best 84

Rose Gertrude Namajunas is the full name of an American MMA fighter. She has inked a contract with the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) to participate in the women’s strawweight division. Rose Namajunas is a former UFC Women’s strawweight champion as well. Similarly, she is ranked first in the UFC women’s strawweight division and fourth in the UFC women’s pound-for-pound division. You can get 84 motivating quotations that will help you get to the top.

1. “All I can control is myself and just keep having a positive attitude.”― Rose Namajunas
2. “I’m like a tree. My leaves might change color, but my roots are the same.”― Rose Namajunas
3. “You just keep a positive attitude no matter what comes in your way – challenges, roadblocks – don’t let it faze you, and you can overcome anything.”― Rose Namajunas
4. “I’M SUCCESSFUL EVERY DAY BECAUSE I LOOK IN THE MIRROR, AND I’M HAPPY WITH WHO I AM.”― ROSE NAMAJUNAS
5. “We need the villain sometimes. It makes for an interesting story.”― Rose Namajunas
6. “I have overcome some demons in my path.”― Rose Namajunas
7. “Your mind is just like your body. It’s a muscle you can train and get better at.”― Rose Namajunas
8. “When you want to be a fighter, you have to give it everything you got. MMA just became who I am because of the amount of work I was putting into my training. It all starts in the gym. The hours turn into days, days into weeks, and weeks into months; it’s like school – the more time you spend learning, the better you’ll be prepared for a test.”― Rose Namajunas
9. “It’s really nice to know that hard work does pay off.”― Rose Namajunas
10. “I WAKE UP EVERY MORNING TRYING TO BE A NEW, BETTER PERSON AND VERSION OF MYSELF. I NEVER TRY AND BE THE SAME THING. SO THAT’S WHAT’S GOING TO BE HARD FOR GIRLS TO KEEP UP WITH ME, BECAUSE I’M ALWAYS EVER-EVOLVING MY STYLE.”― ROSE NAMAJUNAS
11. “All my jabs, they’re all different. I have a million different jabs.”― Rose Namajunas
12. “I think there’s a lot of mental instability in this whole country.”― Rose Namajunas
13. “In order to survive, I created a certain type of aura about myself that I was the baddest chick walking down the street. Anytime somebody underestimates me, Thug Rose comes out.”― Rose Namajunas
14. “My dream is to be a farmer myself, but also to provide opportunities to others who don’t have the land or the resources, in order to grow food themselves and teach them how to do it.”― Rose Namajunas
15. “It takes a lot of courage in that cage no matter who you are.”― Rose Namajunas
16. “What’s the point of being the best in the world if you scratch and claw your way to the top, and you push everybody down instead of lifting everybody else up with you?”― Rose Namajunas
17. “I had to really create a positive atmosphere for myself, and that has to come from within.”― Rose Namajunas
18. “I’ve always been like, if society’s trying to push me in one direction, I always rebel against it, thinking, ‘Nope, I’m going to do the opposite, something that is not expected.’”― Rose Namajunas
19. “I think it’s important to inspire other people to try and do things that people discourage you to do.”― Rose Namajunas
20. “Some of the things I’ve had to overcome in my past, fighting helped me deal with a lot of struggles. Obstacles in life don’t make you a great fighter, but fighting – or, I should say, martial arts – helps you overcome your obstacles.”― Rose Namajunas
21. “I definitely get down on myself. I needed to work on my self-talk. The same way you do footwork drills and cardio training, I had to do self-talk training.”― Rose Namajunas
22. “I love my 303 ladies. We go hard here, you know – we’re fierce!”― Rose Namajunas
23. “Fighting helped me learn that I can’t let my emotions take over.”― Rose Namajunas
24. “I think that’s what makes me so great of a fighter. I’m crazy as hell. And fighting helps me with that.”― Rose Namajunas
25. “A big misconception is that women shouldn’t be in the UFC because we fight ‘like girls,’ but I think women have some of the most exciting fights.”― Rose Namajunas
26. “Mixed martial arts – there’s just been a lot of trash talking and things like that. People, I feel like, aren’t really being true to themselves or being honest. I don’t know, maybe that’s what they feel they need to do to entertain things.”― Rose Namajunas
27. “I live in a very nice neighborhood. There’s nothing that really goes on around here.”― Rose Namajunas
28. “All I can do is make sure I show up to fight, and then they have no choice but to pay me.”― Rose Namajunas
29. “My dad died, and he wasn’t in my life because he had schizophrenia, so it’s been something that my entire family has been fighting against since I can remember.”― Rose Namajunas
30. “There’s a process to everything. If you fast track or make shortcuts in any way, and you get too much of one thing, you’re just out of balance.”― Rose Namajunas
31. “Nobody’s the same. So, I think that people benefit in different things than others.”― Rose Namajunas
32. “I love to learn, and that’s the really cool thing about martial arts – you’re always learning new things.”― Rose Namajunas
33. “Wrestling and kickboxing, like martial arts, combine a handful of skills. They’re really an art form.”― Rose Namajunas
34. “I want to be the most influential champion, in a positive light. I want to change the world.”― Rose Namajunas
35. “It’s great that mixed martial arts allow people to still be in touch with their animal side and duke it out in a cage, but I think it’s important: we’re still nurturing beings, and we should still have compassion for each other.”― Rose Namajunas
36. “I guess I’m crazy. If everything was easy-peasy and green lights all the time, it’d be kind of boring.”― Rose Namajunas
37. “There’s pros and cons to everything, and I choose to look at the positives.”― Rose Namajunas
38. “I’M JUST A VERY IMPATIENT PERSON. IT’S ALWAYS SOMETHING THAT I’M WORKING ON, AND JUST STAYING INTERESTED IN THE FIGHT GAME IS THE BIGGEST CHALLENGE FOR ME. AS LONG AS I’M INTERESTED AND I HAVE AN INCENTIVE TO STAY INTERESTED, THEN I’M UNBEATABLE.”― ROSE NAMAJUNAS
39. “I want to encourage people to be nicer to each other, to be nicer to themselves.”― Rose Namajunas
40. “We’re not just fighters, we’re entertainers.”― Rose Namajunas
41. “I feel like anything can be worked out; you just gotta talk through it as adults.”― Rose Namajunas
42. “I’M JUST A VERY IMPATIENT PERSON. IT’S ALWAYS SOMETHING THAT I’M WORKING ON, AND JUST STAYING INTERESTED IN THE FIGHT GAME IS THE BIGGEST CHALLENGE FOR ME. AS LONG AS I’M INTERESTED AND I HAVE AN INCENTIVE TO STAY INTERESTED, THEN I’M UNBEATABLE.”― ROSE NAMAJUNAS
43. “I want to encourage people to be nicer to each other, to be nicer to themselves.”― Rose Namajunas
44. “We’re not just fighters, we’re entertainers.”― Rose Namajunas
45. “I feel like anything can be worked out; you just gotta talk through it as adults.”― Rose Namajunas
46. “Oh, man – I don’t have just one favorite fighter, but I draw from many different aspects of each fighter. But I will say, just going back in the history of the UFC, just kind of trying to learn from each fighter, I’ve been looking at Brock Lesnar, all the things he did for the UFC back in the day, and his attitude and things like that.”― Rose Namajunas
47. “People think after the fight you get to sit around and relax and all that. But really, people come around and family and all that, so it’s a whole ‘nother responsibility you have to take care of.”― Rose Namajunas
48. “I think we have a great opportunity as fighters and athletes to be good role models. I’m by no means perfect, but I think we can try.”― Rose Namajunas
49. “To me, fighting is special because that’s what I enjoy to do. Every fight is a memory to me.”― Rose Namajunas
50. “Money and fame, it only makes you so happy. You gotta find other reasons to fight. I want a certain amount of money to do the things that I want to do.”― Rose Namajunas
51. “I respect my competition.”― Rose Namajunas
52. “I wanna fight the best.”― Rose Namajunas
53. “I feel like I can go all the way for the belt and hold it awhile.”― Rose Namajunas
54. “When I’m totally in tune with myself, and I’m flowing, it don’t matter who I’m fighting; that’s just a problem for anybody.”― Rose Namajunas
55. “SOMETIMES WHEN YOU PUSH SOMETHING OR YOU FORCE SOMETHING TOO MUCH, THE PROGRESS DOESN’T HAPPEN THE WAY IT SHOULD.”― ROSE NAMAJUNAS
56. “People are gonna go up and down and people are gonna come in and out of this sport.”― Rose Namajunas
57. “I’m always trying to improve, and you can’t ever expect anything from me. You can always just expect me to be dangerous.”― Rose Namajunas
58. “When I force things, it just doesn’t go well.”― Rose Namajunas
59. “I don’t necessarily know about the rankings. I always like to look at it as, it’s the person with the belt, and it’s everybody else.”― Rose Namajunas
60. “Everybody’s one fight away from getting a title shot if they step in on short notice for somebody.”― Rose Namajunas
61. “That’s what I want to do when I finish fighting – build urban farms and learn how to become a farmer, because that’s what I wanted to be when I was a little girl.”― Rose Namajunas
62. “The learning curve, and the things that you have to adapt to on a daily basis in the UFC, is pretty crazy. It’s a huge burden for anybody to have: not just the fighting itself but learning how to deal with the other responsibilities.”― Rose Namajunas
63. “Fighting causes you to face life head on, because you could end up seriously getting hurt, and you could hurt somebody else. It causes both people to face the reality that we are fragile beings, but it doesn’t mean we can’t enjoy ourselves in the process and punch each other in the face and have a good time.”― Rose Namajunas
64. “I was kind of a loner growing up.”― Rose Namajunas
65. “I FEEL LIKE WE HAVE A DUTY AS FIGHTERS TO TRY AND BE A BETTER EXAMPLE.”― ROSE NAMAJUNAS
66. “I come from a place of lots of turmoil.”― Rose Namajunas
67. “If I’m not fighting for a good reason, then your personal life starts to get messy, and it’s like, ‘What am I doing this for?’”― Rose Namajunas
68. “Always try to reinvent myself; never try to stay the same person, because that’s how people figure you out.”― Rose Namajunas
69. “2016 was really challenging for me. I don’t know what it was.”― Rose Namajunas
70. “I’ve always felt that I was a star. I always knew that I am a star.”― Rose Namajunas
71. “I don’t think anybody is perfect.”― Rose Namajunas
72. “I think that I can speak in front of the camera. I think my fighting ability can speak for itself as well.”― Rose Namajunas
73. “I’m the all-around threat. I’ve got the look; I think I’ve got the whole package.”― Rose Namajunas
74. “There are so many variables that go into a fight, you shouldn’t waste your time worrying about the other fighters.”― Rose Namajunas
75. “It’s hard to focus on a fight when your heart is broken and you’re not happy in your relationship, especially if that’s your coach. That’s like fighting without one leg.”― Rose Namajunas
76. “I’m glad I went through the ‘TUF’ experience.”― Rose Namajunas
77. “I learned that love is a much more sustainable energy to draw on than hate.”― Rose Namajunas
78. “I didn’t need the belt to validate me.”― Rose Namajunas
79. “I just wish there were a little more peace in the world.”― Rose Namajunas
80. “My hands look like my dad’s and my mom’s put together. She’s a piano player, he was an artist, and I use the creative qualities I got from them in my fighting. But I don’t just destroy with my hands; I also create: I cook and make art and garden.”― Rose Namajunas
81. “Being resourceful and creating is a big part of my Lithuanian culture. My grandfather is part of who I am, too. He was a professional wrestler. He had a very functional, very slick, long frame.”― Rose Namajunas
82. “Every fight is dangerous, no matter who you’re fighting, no matter what the story behind it is.”― Rose Namajunas
83. “From my perspective, if I say that I’m done, I would hope – and I trust – that my corner would throw in the towel for me.”― Rose Namajunas
84. “I love spoiling a party. I love it when someone is on a roll and just messin’ that up.”― Rose Namajunas