Joanna Jedrzejczyk Quotes

I’m a warrior.

We need real and dedicated fighters and champions in the UFC. It’s simply the best organization in the world.

Even though I moved to Florida, I’m still Polish.

I don’t watch ‘TUF.’ I don’t watch it because I don’t like how they show me.

I’m a big fan of Conor, and I’m a big fan of Khabib.

Anything can happen in the Octagon, so of course, we all want to win, but I know it’s a sport, so one punch can make you lose.

What I love about the UFC, it doesn’t matter if you’re a girl or guy. It doesn’t matter what color skin, what religion you are, where you’re from, they give you the same money and they give you the same star. It’s up to you where you’re gonna be.

Every fighting career is different.

I like the good part of the sport, the sport side of the fighting.

I talk with my body in the Octagon the day of the fight.

It’s MMA. I’m a complete MMA fighter. I expect everything. I’m ready for all of it.

100 Muay Thai, boxing, and kickboxing fights. Six times world Muay Thai champion, five times European Muay Thai champion, very dominant UFC champion for three years. I know my legacy. They can say whatever they want to, but I’m huge.

I believe a training plan that involves MMA techniques is a sure way to being fit.

I want to have my own kids, I want to raise them and just be a happy grandma.

Lots of luck to Paige VanZant. I met her a few times. She’s very nice girl.

No, I am not impressed with Karolina Kowalkiewicz.

Weight cuts are not easy, are not nice, but it’s part of our job so we shouldn’t complain and just be on weight when you have to be.

I am really nice. But not in the cage.

I cannot let my opponents get into my head.

I believe in people so badly and I love when people treat me the same way.

I never take fights personal and I’m not emotional when I’m fighting.

I’ve got talent from my gut and I did my job to show to everyone that I’m simply the best.

It’s my business. Fighting, it’s my business. It’s my job.

You can be an underdog, but you can beat the champion.

I want to be the first champion of the 125-pound division.

I’m happy to be part of the UFC and I’m happy to be the first Polish champion and the first European women‘s champion.

I’m very hard on myself everyday, you can ask my coaches, and after a good training session, I’m not happy because I know I can do better or change something to do better, you know?

I’m Joanna Champion.

When you’re nice to me, I’m nice to you; but when you are not nice, I’m even worse.

Reebok has consistently shown that fitness is truly demanding.

I like to keep busy.

Every fighter is dreaming about the UFC and then once they can get into the UFC, they are dreaming about a title and I’ve made all of my dreams come true.

I couldn’t care what people are saying or not saying because I have my own life. I know who I am, I know who is Joanna Jedrzecjzyk. And I know who I want to be.

This sport is all about winning the fight, setting records, and defending titles.

Before I step in the Octagon, I pray one last time and take a huge deep breath, and then I’m home.

Who’s the real queen? Hell yeah, hell yeah. Bow down, I’m the real queen!

In U.S., there are lot of good fighters, female fighters. Lots of different sparring partners. So it’s good.

For me the more important thing is fighting. You know, training, fighting. The sports side. I didn’t choose my media life.

I can easily cut 10 to 15 pounds without feeling like I’m killing myself.

Alexander Gustafsson, he’s the biggest fighter in Europe. I like him so much and I hope I’m gonna be the biggest in Europe next to him.

People know me only from the Octagon, from the gym. I’m a different person outside and I am who I want to be.

I’m going to be a Ronda Rousey in the strawweight division. They’ll call me ‘JJ’ instead of ‘RR.’

I want to be a legend.

I’m not those kind of persons that’s afraid to be on radio or TV, you know? I’m always the same.

I like to fight in America.

I’m a professional athlete, I’m a businesswoman and I know who I am.

I don’t do fights on Twitter.

Maybe I’m the baddest chick on the planet, maybe I’m the baddest woman in the Octagon, but I’m definitely emotional.

I want people to talk about me in five, 10 years, 20 years, that I was one of the best female MMA fighters, that I was one of the best UFC champions in the world back in the day. This is what I want.

I’m not cocky. I’m not arrogant. I know my value.

You can have the perfect plan through the first punch but then you have to take the fight second by second.

People used to call me violent, savage.

I always wanted to talk to Ronda about how she felt the night before that night that she lost to Holly Holm.

When I must be mean, I’m mean. When I can be nice, I am nice.

I’m not a natural strawweight.