I'm not cocky. I'm not arrogant. I know my value.
Joanna Jedrzejczyk
My parents, they gave me everything. They taught me how to work hard. They taught me how to be a good Catholic. They taught me how to love people, how to respect people, but how to stand my ground, as well.
I want people to talk about me in five, 10 years, 20 years, that I was one of the best female MMA fighters, that I was one of the best UFC champions in the world back in the day. This is what I want.
I'm a professional athlete, I'm a businesswoman and I know who I am.
I don't do fights on Twitter.
Maybe some people think that it's all about the hype, about the fame, but it's not. It's all about being the best. It's all about challenging myself everyday.
I want to have my own kids, I want to raise them and just be a happy grandma.
I'm one hundred percent into my life, and into my fighting career. This is who I want to be in the future - as a mother - and if I'm going to leave the sport, I leave the sport. When I finish with fighting, I'm done.
I like the good part of the sport, the sport side of the fighting.
You can be an underdog, but you can beat the champion.
This sport is all about winning the fight, setting records, and defending titles.
The strawweight division may be the lightest division in the UFC, but we are very tough fighters.
I like to break the records, break the limits.
I always set my ambitions very high. You want to be the greatest athlete, but I realized that life is not about that. I was a little bit blind.
I have almost 100 Muay Thai fights, so I used to train and fight with really tough kickers.
I used to starve myself to death.
We need real and dedicated fighters and champions in the UFC. It's simply the best organization in the world.
Winning is like an addiction, but I'm also afraid of losing.
We all are different. Our lives are different.
100 Muay Thai, boxing, and kickboxing fights. Six times world Muay Thai champion, five times European Muay Thai champion, very dominant UFC champion for three years. I know my legacy. They can say whatever they want to, but I'm huge.
I have lots of power in my hands.
Since I moved to American Top Team, I feel like I'm the bird that got to escape from its cage, if you know that meaning.
I never take fights personal and I'm not emotional when I'm fighting.
I want to be a legend.
Who's the real queen? Hell yeah, hell yeah. Bow down, I'm the real queen!
I couldn't care what people are saying or not saying because I have my own life. I know who I am, I know who is Joanna Jedrzecjzyk. And I know who I want to be.
I like to make history.
Anything can happen in the Octagon, so of course, we all want to win, but I know it's a sport, so one punch can make you lose.
I'm very hard on myself everyday, you can ask my coaches, and after a good training session, I'm not happy because I know I can do better or change something to do better, you know?
I always want to work hard and show to everyone that I am the best.
You can build your legacy and your legacy can be big, but even after you slip or fall, you learn, and your legacy is getting even bigger.
People can doubt me, and they'll do that forever, but show me a better, cleaner fighter in the UFC or in general.
If the UFC wants me to fight in Glasgow, I will do this in Glasgow. If they want me to fight in Africa, I will fight in Africa, you know what I mean?
I cannot let my opponents get into my head.
I am really nice. But not in the cage.
Slowly, step-by-step, I will reach my goals and my dreams.
It's my business. Fighting, it's my business. It's my job.
I cannot help that I'm simply the best.
When I must be mean, I'm mean. When I can be nice, I am nice.
I train with the best team and the best gym in the world at American Top Team, and we know how to fight.
The UFC is the best organization in the world, they sign the best fighters.
When you're nice to me, I'm nice to you; but when you are not nice, I'm even worse.
I believe a training plan that involves MMA techniques is a sure way to being fit.
I'm a big fan of Conor, and I'm a big fan of Khabib.
For myself, I'm still little Joanna from the hood - from a small town in Poland, and I'm still having my goals, my dreams.
Reebok has consistently shown that fitness is truly demanding.
I want to show to everyone that I am simply the best.
I always have good feelings in America and I like it so much.
Every fighting career is different.
I always wanted to talk to Ronda about how she felt the night before that night that she lost to Holly Holm.
