I feel great at 145. This is my division. I'm open to fight anybody.
— Cris Cyborg
I love training - I train a lot - but for 140, it's worse. You have to run every day. I ran six miles in the morning, six miles at night and train MMA and other arts, too. It's a lot of work, a lot of work.
I believe I deserve to be respected as an athlete because I'm a pioneer in this sport.
I believe that some athletes have fear, but you have to work on that. Athletes can't have fear. Fear of what? Fear of losing? Everybody loses one day.
Who inside MMA that's a champion goes to fight Muay Thai? Nobody. But I love competing.
I think when you lose the fight, it's not the end of the world. You can keep training and catch up and try again better, you know?
I'm the world champ at 145. Why do I have to go down a division? Of course I want to make the fights nice for the fans, but I don't want to do something to make my life terrible.
I had trouble making weight before in my career.
A fighter has to be prepared for anyone, to train every day. That's what I learned at Chute Boxe.
Tito Ortiz and I, in that short time that we worked together, we created a very nice connection. We became a family. I learned many things from him as he must also have learned from me. We talked as friends, and a good friend always wants your best.
I really want to fight Ronda. The problem is, I can't drop to 135.
I love my job. I love to fight, and I love to compete.
Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, but you learn.
I've already overcome a lot of things in my career, and if I don't fight in the UFC anymore, for sure I'm gonna find other ways to keep growing my legacy.
I train everything: I train wrestling; I train jiu-jitsu. I like to suplex people. I like ground-and-pound, but in my fight, I never have the opportunity.
I want to make super fun fights for all my fans so people will remember me.
It's good to train with someone better than you, because you evolve; you see more things.
I think it would be the biggest fight ever. Me and Ronda Rousey. Everybody wanna watch.
Who's the best MMA fighter of all times? I always left that for fans to decide.
If you have the belt, you have to fight anyone.
I love striking, but MMA and Muay Thai are different.
I never hated Ronda. She's always talked about me; she did that to promote herself because when she started, nobody knew her, and she talked about me for people to know who she is. And she opened the doors for women's MMA.
I love to fight. Keeping me at home without a fight is the same to offer candy to a kid and then take it away. That's why I'm always competing in other martial arts. That keeps me motivated to train and helps me learn even more.
I'm always prepared for five, six rounds. I train hard. Sometimes it's over quickly, but you have to be prepared for every round, always respecting your opponent.
Beauty doesn't win a fight.
Love me or hate me, it's all in my favor. If you love me, I'll always be in your heart. If you hate me, I'll always be in your mind.
I never choose my opponents.
I think when you train in just one sport separately, you learn more.
I always admired Dana White as a great businessman that always believed in MMA and helped our sport to grow around the world.
I have a dream fight - boxing fight - and I am for sure gonna fight a boxing fight.
I fight for the women. I try to do my best inside the Octagon to fight like a man; then, people will respect girls in the Octagon.
I want to make great fights, emotional fights, for all my fans and everyone watching.
I'm open for big fights, and it would be my dream to make my division in the UFC.
If I make 140, I sacrifice a lot of things in my life: my diet, my training, my thyroid. It's insane to make 140.
Both fighters can't win in this sport, so you have to leave it in God's hands. Losing is not the end of the world. Losing is natural; the better-prepared athlete will win.
Everybody has a game plan, but the plan changes after the first punch.
Losing a fight, winning - it happens.
I love to fight, but it's not just about the fight. You have to be healthy.
Trash talk is not my thing. I believe I have other weapons to make a fight get booked.
I have jiu-jitsu, wrestling... I like to do everything, especially knocking people out. People like fights like that.
What wins a fight is training hard, working hard, and that's what I do: Train hard every time. Being pretty or not is not the point.
I'm already used to being a target, so I'm building a castle with the stones people throw at me.
I'm always ready for a fight.
I like to compete in everything - I like to compete in jiu-jitsu, I like to compete in wrestling and Muay Thai, and if I have a chance to compete in boxing one day, why not?
I'm a big fan of Wanderlei Silva; he's a big international idol.
Not a lot of girls can KO fighters. I KO all the girls.
Sometimes people fight with injuries and nobody knows, so it's important for the fans to see what we do to - for everything.
I'm proud to know that I never needed an event to promote me, and I never had to lie about anyone.
