Miesha Tate Quotes

It’s called ‘Fight Valley,’ and it’s my first feature film. I just dove in and did the best I could. I don’t think I’m gonna win any Academy Awards on this one. I had fun with it and hopefully will get more opportunities like that. It’s about two sisters, one poor and one rich, and one goes into underground fighting.

If you weren’t pretty, it wouldn’t matter what you said or didn’t say. That’s why you’re getting this attention.

You always have to try to move forward with a positive connotation in the future.

People like myself have been pushing, competing, and promoting female MMA for a long time, and to see the fans accept a female division in the UFC so quickly is vindication that all that hard work amounted to something.

I would like to learn more about what I can do for my hair, because I think I don’t really know; my poor hair is suffering because of my lack of knowledge.

I think people relate to the person who gets knocked down or maybe has to come from behind and get that victory.

I’m a woman who’s been in a man’s sport since the age of 15, and to see people finally seeing what I saw right from the start, that female fighters are just as good ‘pound-for-pound’ as our male counterparts.

Make excuses to work out. Go for walks and enjoy scenery. You’d be surprised how many calories you can burn during the day if you just make an effort and become more aware. Also remember to start slow, don’t go into it too hard if you are just starting.

I know the first thing I want to do when I come back from a loss is to get in the gym and get better.

I think we’ve broken a lot of barriers and kind of shattered our glass ceiling that was there for women. There are so many great fighters, and we’ve proved a lot of people wrong. A lot of the times, our fights are the best fights on the card.

I added a new strength training regimen in my training, and I feel like I’ve become a much stronger, more dynamic athlete. That makes me much more dangerous against anyone.

When I went to college, I came across MMA. My first reaction was, ‘No, I don’t want to fight. I just want to learn jujitsu.’ I didn’t know what UFC was; in my mind it was this violent, ugly sport. But when I watched my first amateur fight, I fell in love with the sport and thought it was beautiful.

I think we’ve broken a lot of barriers and kind of shattered our “glass ceiling” that was there for women. There are so many great fighters and we’ve proved a lot of people wrong. A lot of the times our fights are the best fights on the card.

I hate the stereotype that women who fight are ‘butch’ or ‘wannabe men.’ It’s nice to be able to embrace being a beautiful, strong woman.

There’s a lot of girls in the division I really like, but I always feel like there’s this underlying sense of a potential matchup, potential competition. It adds a different element.

I know there’s pros and cons to Trump, and people talk crap that he’s had a lot of failed businesses, but failing a lot sometimes means you’ve tried more. And a lot of those people have succeeded more times than they failed.

What feeds a fighters soul is victory.

I feel like I’m evolving quickly with my confidence, physically, just everything.