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Rose Namajunas

Profession : Athlete

Birth : June 29, 1992

My dad died, and he wasn't in my life because he had schizophrenia, so it's been something that my entire family has been fighting against since I can remember.

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You just keep a positive attitude no matter what comes in your way - challenges, roadblocks - don't let it faze you, and you can overcome anything.

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All I can control is myself and just keep having a positive attitude.

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Wrestling and kickboxing, like martial arts, combine a handful of skills. They're really an art form.

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I'm successful every day because I look in the mirror, and I'm happy with who I am.

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In order to survive, I created a certain type of aura about myself that I was the baddest chick walking down the street. Anytime somebody underestimates me, Thug Rose comes out.

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There's a process to everything. If you fast track or make shortcuts in any way, and you get too much of one thing, you're just out of balance.

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I learned that love is a much more sustainable energy to draw on than hate.

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My dream is to be a farmer myself, but also to provide opportunities to others who don't have the land or the resources, in order to grow food themselves and teach them how to do it.

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Me being the best in the world, it doesn't mean that much to me if I'm not a good person at the end of the day, if I'm not setting a good example for other people to be better to each other.

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When they asked us what we wanted to be when we grow up, in kindergarten, I always said I wanted to be a farmer.

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That Dutch style of kickboxing, that's great. That's hard. It's very intimidating to stand across from, but you know it's very rhythmic on the beat. It's just something: It looks scary, but it's nothing to be scared of.

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Oh, man - I don't have just one favorite fighter, but I draw from many different aspects of each fighter. But I will say, just going back in the history of the UFC, just kind of trying to learn from each fighter, I've been looking at Brock Lesnar, all the things he did for the UFC back in the day, and his attitude and things like that.

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All the scars on my body, all the bumps and bruises, all the muscles - that is a story of everything I have done. And it's not just my story. My ancestors who came before me gave me this vessel to sculpt and mold.

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Every fight is personal, but with myself.

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That's what I want to do when I finish fighting - build urban farms and learn how to become a farmer, because that's what I wanted to be when I was a little girl.

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I feel like anything can be worked out; you just gotta talk through it as adults.

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I live in a very nice neighborhood. There's nothing that really goes on around here.

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Martial arts is about honor and respect.

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I'm sick of all the hate and anger and stuff like that going on.

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