Quotes by Shayna Baszler - Page 1

WWE is something I've had my eye on.
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Wwe
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I discover a lot of things on my own.
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Discover
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It's hard to simulate the things that I do.
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Hard Things
Simulate
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Normally, when a fighter gets challenged, they answer.
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Challenged
Normally
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Everything I've gotten, I've had to work twice as hard to earn.
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Earn
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I'm a catch wrestler, so I used catch wrestling in Mixed Martial Arts.
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Martial Arts
Catch
Martial
Mixed
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You know how you defeat chaos? You suck the air out of it and put it to sleep.
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Air
Chaos
Defeat
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If you do your history, pro wrestling is just the worked version of what MMA is.
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Mma
Pro
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I'm looking forward to getting out there and twisting limbs off and breaking bodies.
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Limbs
Looking Forward
Bodies
Breaking
Forward
Twisting
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I didn't get into MMA because I wanted to be UFC champion. That wasn't my motivation.
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Champion
Mma
Motivation
Ufc
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One thing I've learned is that a lot of fans' knowledge starts and stops with the UFC.
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Ufc
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It's not like I'm training every day by doing an avalanche suplex off the top turnbuckle.
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Avalanche
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Waving the banner of my coaches is a heavy flag to wield, so it's something I take very serious.
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Banner
Coaches
Heavy
Flag
Waving
Wield
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In sports entertainment, you can take your time and digest what's going on along with the audience.
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Time Sports Your
Digest
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One of the reasons I started pursuing MMA was for all the similarities to pro wrestling that it has.
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Mma
Pro
Pursuing
Similarities
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I had a little gut check, and ultimately, I grew up as far as my MMA mentality and am more mature now.
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Mature
Mentality
Mma
Check
Gut
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I love rock and roll and loved getting on wrestling mats since I was six, and I have never been ashamed of it.
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Ashamed
Rock And Roll
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I was going to school; I was working - at one point, I had two jobs - and I was still trying to train and fight.
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Jobs
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I've fought on some big cards. I've fought in some big arenas, on televised cards, pay-per-view cards, whatever.
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Cards
Arenas
Fought
Televised
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Anyone who is friends with a fighter or lives with a fighter, you know that a fighter cutting weight is on edge.
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Cutting
Edge
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I spent so many years in MMA waving the banner for pro wrestling, telling fighters they had to be more entertaining.
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Banner
Entertaining
Mma
Fighters
Pro
So Many Years
Waving
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I've faced the undefeated, young up-and-comers, everybody counting me out before, on a big card, with big lights, TV.
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Counting
Undefeated
Card
Lights
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Changing over to the UFC, I was trying to force myself to thinking, like, 'This was it; this is the most important thing.'
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Ufc
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I'm being more physical and aggressive while, at the same time, I'm not being overwhelmed by strong fighters like Sara McMann.
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Aggressive
Overwhelmed
Fighters
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Training with Billy Robinson is just like any martial artist who would go to the old master of the art. He's so knowledgeable.
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Artist
Training
Billy
Master
Martial
Robinson
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If I could have had the opportunity to be a full-time fighter while I was one of the best in the world, what could I have done then?
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If I Could
Best Opportunity World
Full-Time
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It's interesting because my Mixed Martial Arts upbringing is less Brazilian jiu-jitsu, which is the traditional thing that people study.
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Martial Arts
Study
Traditional
Upbringing
Brazilian
Martial
Mixed
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Catch wrestling is pro wrestling, if you look at the ground moves and the rule set. It's just about learning the art of it for yourself.
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Catch
Pro
Rule
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I do a lot of crazy stuff. People that have watched me know my grappling game is of the regular map that you'd see in a jiu-jitsu class.
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Grappling
Map
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Who says what is the right way and what isn't? That is some imagined social construct that people made up to feel okay about being average.
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Right Way
People Feel Way
Construct
People Way Feel
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Look at something like boxing. People know that some fights are fixed, but nobody looks at a boxing match and automatically assumes it's fake.
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Boxing
Fake
Fixed
Look People Nobody
Assumes
Automatically
Boxing Match
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In MMA, you're trained to tune the audience out. In sports entertainment, you're trained to feed off what the audience is thinking and feeling.
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Mma
Feed
Trained
Tune
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In MMA, there isn't time to admire your work until it's all over with. In sports-entertainment, I can admire what I'm doing while it's happening.
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Mma
Work Time Doing
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It's almost going to sound like a jerk thing to say, but it's so easy to manipulate the fans to love us or hate us. It's fun. It makes it really fun.
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Jerk
Manipulate
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It's not like I was saying, 'Oh, I want to make it to the UFC one day,' because the sport wasn't big enough then that a guy could have this as his job.
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Enough
Guy
One Day
Ufc
Job
Big Enough
Day Big One Day
Oh
Sport
Saying
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If you follow my MMA career, I've always been the pro wrestler of women's MMA, coming out with a guitar, saying crazy things on interviews, promos and such.
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Crazy Things
Mma
Pro
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I've always said the thing about MMA that a lot of fighters don't understand is people care more about the story, about why a fight's happening, than the actual fight.
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Mma
Fighters
Fight People Always
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Because I've been around the MMA block a little bit, I'm at a point now where I just want bodies to beat up. I'm past the point in my career where I'm picking and choosing.
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Block
Mma
Bodies
Choosing
Picking
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Look, it doesn't matter who you put in front of me or how many girls out of that locker room you want to throw at me. I'm taking them all out - and never losing this title.
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Locker Room
Locker
Title
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I think seeing me cross over to pro wrestling and having fun - I get up in the morning, and I'm not a morning person. My alarm goes off, and I'm back out and training again.
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Having Fun
Morning Person
Alarm
Cross
Pro
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'Final Fantasy VII' is my favorite video game, and I had a conversation on Up Up Down Down, and I don't wanna say who is my favorite character, but my default would be Sephiroth.
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Default
Wanna
Video Game
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I have always had a desire to prove people that looked past me wrong, whether it was because I was a female trying to wrestle or fight in MMA or because I grew up on the wrong side of town.
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Desire
Female
Mma
Prove
Looked
Wrestle
Wrong Side
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I've played basketball, and I've stood at the free-throw line with a tie game and 0.2 seconds left. But there is no feeling in the world like being in that ring when they close it up and ask, 'Are you ready?'
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Seconds
Stood
Tie
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Don't talk to me about how I haven't done anything to prove myself. I'm not worth anything. Like, seriously, do your history first, then come up with something smarter than things that are blatantly not true.
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Smarter
History Myself Me
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I've already done enough to prove myself. Win or lose, I think I've done enough to cement my name in the history of this sport. So for me, it's more like I have to win just for an opportunity to get on the mic and say all that.
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Cement
Win Or Lose
Mic
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I think that Ronda and I had similar paths in MMA; she became a bigger star than I ever was, but a similar thing happened, where the backlash from the fans happened after you slip up once kind of makes you fall out of love with it.
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Backlash
Mma
Paths
Slip
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I did some really heavy, intensive clinics with Billy Robinson. Anyone that knows anything about Billy, he was a mean old dude! I survived training with him and Josh Barnett, right in the same vein, my head coach for, like, 12 years.
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Heavy
Josh
Survived
Billy
Clinics
Dude
Head Coach
Intensive
Robinson
Vein
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Ronda's a natural athlete. Just learning a different rule set and bringing what she has from MMA would be the same: does her judo translate to MMA, will her MMA translate to pro wrestling? She's been pretty successful one way, and I think she'll be pretty successful the other way.
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Athlete
Mma
Translate
Pro
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