Shayna Baszler

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.

One thing I've learned is that a lot of fans' knowledge starts and stops with the UFC.

Training with Billy Robinson is just like any martial artist who would go to the old master of the art. He's so knowledgeable.

It's not like I'm training every day by doing an avalanche suplex off the top turnbuckle.

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.

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?

In sports entertainment, you can take your time and digest what's going on along with the audience.

I was going to school; I was working - at one point, I had two jobs - and I was still trying to train and fight.

Everything I've gotten, I've had to work twice as hard to earn.

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.