“In Brazil, there's the beach, there's partying. It's hard to be focuse...” — Mackenzie Dern Quote

“In Brazil, there's the beach, there's partying. It's hard to be focused.”

“As Mackenzie the jiu-jitsu world champion, if I'm on the ground, I should be submitting any of the girls. So in that way, I'm always going to push myself.”

“It's like since I've been into the MMA world, I've always had people wanting to pull me in all these different directions, and I'm learning the sport too.”

“At the World Cup, I carried my mum's Caribbean sauce around with me. She makes her own, and I brought it to Brazil - I needed to have it there. We're very down-to-earth; it's the nature of my family. We came from nothing.”

“I would like to fight for the Brazilian fans. I would like to fight Aldo in Brazil.”

“Yes, Brazil, like the whole world, stands to lose a lot in a climate-altered world. But it's also one of the major forces determining our future: It's the home of most of the Amazon rain forest.”