I refuse to step inside the ring and fight like a gladiator against my own. I'm not playing that game. Any woman who has survived a year or more of making music has my undying respect.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I often play women who are not essentially good or likable, and I often go through a stage where I hate them. Then I end up loving and defending them.
I get the headlines for being slick and different things like that - which is part of my game - but it's just amazing to me that a lot of times, the people don't see the other things that go on in that ring. But a lot of times, when my opponents figure it out, the fight is over. It's too late.
I like to have fun in the ring, but I knock them out.
I think we've broken a lot of barriers and kind of shattered our glass ceiling that was there for women. There are so many great fighters, and we've proved a lot of people wrong. A lot of the times, our fights are the best fights on the card.
I'm a very respectful fighter, I don't get out of character and start talking crazy, but if you don't want to fight a fighter, or you don't think it's a good style, or it's just not time, then say that.
I realised that I could either fight and get into trouble on the street or I could fight and get paid in the ring. I chose the ring.
I've twice run against women opponents, and it's a very different kind of approach. For those of us who have some chivalry left, there's a level of respect... You treat some things as a special treasure; you treat other things as common.
There seems to be a theme running through the women I play. They take their circumstances and try to make the best of them.
I never fought in my life outside of a ring.
The only woman I have played in my career was my wife and I beat her easily! But she wasn't much good.