Gina Carano quotes

When I enjoy doing something, I don't mind if it hurts.
-- Gina Carano

#Hurt #Mind #It Hurts

I know I'm always rooting for the underdog in a fight, and I love to be constantly surprised.
-- Gina Carano

#Fighting #Underdog

I like fighting because it's honest.
-- Gina Carano

#Fighting #Honest

I think there's a part in each one of us that wants the impossible to happen, and that's what surprises are.
-- Gina Carano

#Thinking #Want #Impossible

I want people to see me for who I am and not for how someone else is trying to promote me.
-- Gina Carano

#Who I Am #People #Trying

I've had cameras on me since I started the art of fighting and I think that I'm used to having cameras on me in adrenaline-type situations.
-- Gina Carano

#Art #Fighting #Thinking

My knowledge of video games ends with Nintendo 'Mario Bros.
-- Gina Carano

#Games #Video #Nintendo

My mom used to tell me: 'It's not what you weigh; it's what you look like.
-- Gina Carano

#Mom #Looks #My Mom

Since I've started fighting it has taught me a lot about self respect, self confidence and self control.
-- Gina Carano

#Fighting #Self Confidence #Self Respect

Sometimes, you get portrayed the way you don't want to be portrayed.
-- Gina Carano

#Want #Way #Sometimes

The guys I date always want to test my strength and wrestle around. By the end, they're drenched in sweat.
-- Gina Carano

#Sweat #Guy #Want

Well you know, I have the utmost respect for people like Angelina Jolie and Zoe Saldana in 'Colombiana.
-- Gina Carano

#People #Wells

I find that whoever you are as a person is how you're gonna fight, and every basic instinct kind of comes out at that moment.
-- Gina Carano

#Fighting #Kind #Moments

I don't get paid what people think I get paid for fighting.
-- Gina Carano

#Fighting #Thinking #People

I am not a violent person. I actually don't like to hurt people.
-- Gina Carano

#Hurt #People #Violent

I have gotten some of the most beautiful experiences that a person can possibly ask for so I'm not at all complaining.
-- Gina Carano

#Beautiful #Complaining #Persons

I definitely don't want to be one of those athletes who turns into a cheesy actress.
-- Gina Carano

#Athlete #Cheesy #Want

I'm really surprised how many people knew me as Gina Carano. MMA has a beautiful fan base.
-- Gina Carano

#Beautiful #Mma #People

You shouldn't be greedy. You should feel good about yourself and not be greedy of what other people have.
-- Gina Carano

#People #Feel Good #Greedy

I cannot say where I will be in 5 yearsscratch that, tomorrowBut I know that wherever you find me, I will remain true to myself with a genuine smile on my face and happiness in my heart.
-- Gina Carano

#Heart #Faces #Genuine

I don't mind answering any questions, because I'm not just a fighter. I'm a lot more than that.
-- Gina Carano

#Mind #Fighter

It's a very big deal to me to remain the same person because I know all of this is going to be gone one day and I'm just going to have myself.
-- Gina Carano

#One Day #Gone #Bigs

I am always training because I love it.
-- Gina Carano

#Training

Fighting is very physical and extreme and you're very vulnerable. It's a very mental type of thing.
-- Gina Carano

#Fighting #Vulnerable #Type

Everybody is their own critic.
-- Gina Carano

#Critics

I think I came up in fighting in a really technical way. If you've ever seen my fights, you know I love distance, I love technique.
-- Gina Carano

#Distance #Fighting #Thinking

I wake up every morning and I surprise myself. I wake up to a new me.
-- Gina Carano

#Morning #Wake Up #Surprise

Fight night is all about believing in yourself, believing in what you can do, and doing it.
-- Gina Carano

#Believe #Fighting #Night

I was destined to express myself.
-- Gina Carano

#Mma

I'm attracted to any type of endeavor that gives me the chance to express what's going on inside me.
-- Gina Carano

#Mma #Giving #Chance

When you fight someone, you share the experience with that one person, and you're never going to have that experience with someone else-even in another fight.
-- Gina Carano

#Fighting #Mma #That One Person

When you dream big, you eventually attract big things.
-- Gina Carano

#Dream #Mma #Bigs

It's something that I've always loved to do and it's been such a genuine expression for me.
-- Gina Carano

#Expression #Mma #Genuine

People want to put you in the box, and you just have to fight past their preconceived notions.
-- Gina Carano

#Fighting #Past #Mma

Fighting's given me confidence but it's also broken me down and kept me humble.
-- Gina Carano

#Humble #Fighting #Mma

Once you get that addiction of realizing what you can do, you want to take that to the next level.
-- Gina Carano

#Mma #Addiction #Next Level

I'm afraid of pretty much everything, but there's something inside me that is addicted to scaring myself.
-- Gina Carano

#Mma

My first love is MMA... it's something that I did because it made me feel good.
-- Gina Carano

#First Love #Love Is #Mma

When you do things for the right reasons, eventually no matter how long it takes, people will take notice of it and can't help but respect it.
-- Gina Carano

#Mma #People #Long

There are certain things that I always dreamed of, like fighting in the UFC. There's just certain things that I feel like haven't been accomplished there. There's such great women coming up in the sport; seems like a wonderful time to be in women's MMA.
-- Gina Carano

#Sports #Fighting #Ufc

You want to get better even after people smash you down. You want to be better than you were before.
-- Gina Carano

#People #Get Better #Want

A lot of people enjoyed the film 'Haywire' and a lot of people have mixed feelings on it but regardless, a lot of people have said really wonderful things about it being my first experience, that the fighting they absolutely enjoyed. So I think I've gotten a lot more fans, actually.
-- Gina Carano

#Fighting #Thinking #People

Fighting is my career, it's what I love to do, but I am taking offers and trying to expand because the more I expand myself, the more valuable I become to promoters.
-- Gina Carano

#Fighting #Careers #Trying

I didn't really watch action films growing up! I grew up on stuff like 'Anne of Green Gables' - that was more when I was in elementary school. It was all I ever watched.
-- Gina Carano

#Growing Up #School #Watches

I know I don't look like the skinny slender model. I know I look a little different but people like to watch me for some reason. It feels good and I'm humbled by it.
-- Gina Carano

#People #Feel Good #Different

I was always bigger than the other girls. My sisters are very, very beautiful and very skinny, and I've always had a more muscular body. So I grew up with a different mentality.
-- Gina Carano

#Beautiful #Girl #Different

My first fight. I fought a girl that was a little bit heavier, a little bit more experienced and I was petrified because I didn't know what I was getting myself into. And I did really well against her and nobody believed it was my first fight.
-- Gina Carano

#Girl #Fighting #Littles

Of course, fighting is not going to be as graceful as movie fighting. I don't like it to be ugly and I don't like it to be one big brawl or people clobbering each other.
-- Gina Carano

#Fighting #People #Ugly

On 'American Gladiators,' I got to pummel a lot of people off a pyramid with a giant Q-tip. It was so much fun to wrestle people with no risk of getting knocked out or choked out.
-- Gina Carano

#Fun #Pyramids #People

The ultimate first date? Something that is completely out of the ordinary - go crazy, because first dates are always a little awkward, so do something a little extreme.
-- Gina Carano

#Crazy #Awkward #Ordinary

I love it. It's something I can do that makes everything else disappear.
-- Gina Carano

#Mma #Disappear