“If there's one thing I can say that helps me, it's just, actually beli...” — Julianna Pena Quote

“If there's one thing I can say that helps me, it's just, actually believing in yourself and believing what you're capable of doing. That's not to say that I sit there and talk to myself all day about how I'm the best and I'm the cat's meow. But it's just a feeling you have within yourself.”

“One thing you can't teach is true grit.”

“My sister invited me to a woman's cardio kickboxing class. It was love at first punch. My coach said I was a natural and I just kept coming back to his cardio kickboxing classes. They invited me to stay for the MMA classes.”

“Believing that no one is better than the other. You know I grew up in the South. My senior year there was a very big racial tension.”

“That's my faith, that's the most important thing in my life - believing that I have a purpose here, that I was placed with an intentionality of exactly where I am supposed to be.”

“To anyone who has started out on a long campaign believing that the gold medal was destined for him, the feeling when, all of a sudden, the medal has gone somewhere else is quite indescribable.”