Liz Carmouche

I always train to do five rounds.

— Liz Carmouche

There's no real hiding from fame.

— Liz Carmouche

I can't freeze when I go in the cage.

— Liz Carmouche

I'm genuinely a flyweight.

— Liz Carmouche

Beast. That's what everybody says about me.

— Liz Carmouche

I'm one of the tiniest 135ers.

— Liz Carmouche

I've always been a little powerhouse.

— Liz Carmouche

When I watch fights, it's on YouTube.

— Liz Carmouche

Every day I wake up, and my goal is to be better than I was the day before.

— Liz Carmouche

As a champion, you are supposed to embody professionalism for the entire weight division.

— Liz Carmouche

When my contract with the military was done, then I started following MMA.

— Liz Carmouche

I've had nothing but positive feedback and support from the LGBT community.

— Liz Carmouche

I kind of will over everything. There will be situations where like 'I refuse!'

— Liz Carmouche

I'm my hardest critic, I expect the best of myself, I'm a perfectionist.

— Liz Carmouche

I always needed a physical outlet, this is always who I've been.

— Liz Carmouche

I wouldn't say I'm a social hermit, but pretty close to that.

— Liz Carmouche

My nickname was Liz Lemon. When I would go for a takedown or get in there to 'ground and pound,' I would…

— Liz Carmouche

I don't think anyone should try to put themselves in a situation or push themselves out of the zone that they don't…

— Liz Carmouche

I didn't come from a combat sports background where I had a real definitive background in anything to fall back onto.

— Liz Carmouche

Physically, no disrespect to Ronda, but I don't think she has an advantage over anybody else. She's not physically stronger than any…

— Liz Carmouche

A lot of people see M.M.A. as this violent cage fighting, and they don't see it as being two athletes who have…

— Liz Carmouche

I've always said it and I always will, that my eye is always on that title. That's what I'm gunning for.

— Liz Carmouche

I'd rather take that chance and lose to someone who's the best in the world than beat someone nobody has ever heard…

— Liz Carmouche

Hey look, I respect Ronda. She's done so much for the sport of women's MMA. I'm never going to take anything away…

— Liz Carmouche

I was able to come out to my family, but other than that I couldn't come out to co-workers or to friends…

— Liz Carmouche

After growing up in a military family and going to an Evangelical Christian school, to look around and see lesbians and gay…

— Liz Carmouche

It went from 'I was a nobody on the street, just another person.' It turned into something completely different. People were coming…

— Liz Carmouche

After the Ronda fight, I wasn't sure what the UFC held for me. I think coming out of that fight, I didn't…

— Liz Carmouche

The hype around Ronda is incredible and it's created this aura of invincibility. If you let that play with your mind, you'll…

— Liz Carmouche

I was offered an opportunity to do the Sports Illustrated cover when they did the skin cover with Miesha Tate and Ronda…

— Liz Carmouche

When I joined the Marine Corps, you have to do a vocational test to get in, and I took the test, they…

— Liz Carmouche

That's one thing that's always helped me as a fighter is that I haven't focused on one thing, like, 'let's make you…

— Liz Carmouche

To be closeted for so long was so difficult.

— Liz Carmouche

I'm just not really meant to fight at 135.

— Liz Carmouche

I was always a gym rat.

— Liz Carmouche

I don't believe in letting my words speak for me, I let my actions speak.

— Liz Carmouche

I would absolutely be willing to fight Cris Cyborg.

— Liz Carmouche

Everybody has strong feelings and they back what they believe, and they have the right to.

— Liz Carmouche

To me, I feel like I play such small role in this life and this world.

— Liz Carmouche

I hate taking breaks in my training. But I'm having to change that, and let my body heal.

— Liz Carmouche