Shayna Baszler

I don't care what Dana White thinks.

— Shayna Baszler

I've always said the thing about MMA that a lot of fighters don't understand is people care more about the story, about…

— Shayna Baszler

If you follow my MMA career, I've always been the pro wrestler of women's MMA, coming out with a guitar, saying crazy…

— Shayna Baszler

One of the reasons I started pursuing MMA was for all the similarities to pro wrestling that it has.

— Shayna Baszler

I did some really heavy, intensive clinics with Billy Robinson. Anyone that knows anything about Billy, he was a mean old dude!…

— Shayna Baszler

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…

— Shayna Baszler

I'm looking forward to getting out there and twisting limbs off and breaking bodies.

— Shayna Baszler

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

— Shayna Baszler

I've faced the undefeated, young up-and-comers, everybody counting me out before, on a big card, with big lights, TV.

— Shayna Baszler

I spent so many years in MMA waving the banner for pro wrestling, telling fighters they had to be more entertaining.

— Shayna Baszler

I'm being more physical and aggressive while, at the same time, I'm not being overwhelmed by strong fighters like Sara McMann.

— Shayna Baszler

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…

— Shayna Baszler

It's not like I was saying, 'Oh, I want to make it to the UFC one day,' because the sport wasn't big…

— Shayna Baszler

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

— Shayna Baszler

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

— Shayna Baszler

It's hard to simulate the things that I do.

— Shayna Baszler

I didn't get into MMA because I wanted to be UFC champion. That wasn't my motivation.

— Shayna Baszler

WWE is something I've had my eye on.

— Shayna Baszler

I had a little gut check, and ultimately, I grew up as far as my MMA mentality and am more mature now.

— Shayna Baszler

I have always had a desire to prove people that looked past me wrong, whether it was because I was a female…

— Shayna Baszler

It's almost going to sound like a jerk thing to say, but it's so easy to manipulate the fans to love us…

— Shayna Baszler

You know how you defeat chaos? You suck the air out of it and put it to sleep.

— Shayna Baszler

Look at something like boxing. People know that some fights are fixed, but nobody looks at a boxing match and automatically assumes…

— Shayna Baszler

Anyone who is friends with a fighter or lives with a fighter, you know that a fighter cutting weight is on edge.

— Shayna Baszler

Changing over to the UFC, I was trying to force myself to thinking, like, 'This was it; this is the most important…

— Shayna Baszler