Gina Carano Quotes

My first fight. I fought a girl that was a little bit heavier, a little bit more experienced and I was petrified because I didn't know what I was getting myself into. And I did really well against her and nobody believed it was my first fight.

It's a very big deal to me to remain the same person because I know all of this is going to be gone one day and I'm just going to have myself.

It's a constant battle for everybody, but you need to be happy with yourself.

I've had cameras on me since I started the art of fighting and I think that I'm used to having cameras on me in adrenaline-type situations.

I'm really surprised how many people knew me as Gina Carano. MMA has a beautiful fan base.

I was always bigger than the other girls. My sisters are very, very beautiful and very skinny, and I've always had a more muscular body. So I grew up with a different mentality.

I want people to see me for who I am and not for how someone else is trying to promote me.

I wake up every morning and I surprise myself. I wake up to a new me.

I think there's a part in each one of us that wants the impossible to happen, and that's what surprises are.

I think I came up in fighting in a really technical way. If you've ever seen my fights, you know I love distance, I love technique.

I like fighting because it's honest.

I know I'm always rooting for the underdog in a fight, and I love to be constantly surprised.

I know I don't look like the skinny slender model. I know I look a little different but people like to watch me for some reason. It feels good and I'm humbled by it.

I have gotten some of the most beautiful experiences that a person can possibly ask for so I'm not at all complaining.

I find that whoever you are as a person is how you're gonna fight, and every basic instinct kind of comes out at that moment.

I don't mind answering any questions, because I'm not just a fighter. I'm a lot more than that.

I don't get paid what people think I get paid for fighting.

I didn't really watch action films growing up! I grew up on stuff like 'Anne of Green Gables' - that was more when I was in elementary school. It was all I ever watched.

I definitely don't want to be one of those athletes who turns into a cheesy actress.

I am not a violent person. I actually don't like to hurt people.

I am always training because I love it.

Fighting is very physical and extreme and you're very vulnerable. It's a very mental type of thing.

Fighting is my career, it's what I love to do, but I am taking offers and trying to expand because the more I expand myself, the more valuable I become to promoters.

Everybody is their own critic.

A lot of people enjoyed the film 'Haywire' and a lot of people have mixed feelings on it but regardless, a lot of people have said really wonderful things about it being my first experience, that the fighting they absolutely enjoyed. So I think I've gotten a lot more fans, actually.