I stood up as best I could to their disgusting stupidity and brutality but I did not of course manage to beat them at their own game. It was a fight to the bitter end one in which I was not defending ideals or beliefs but simply my own self.

The U.S. Armed Forces are the best trained best equipped fighting forces in the world.

No matter how good you are at planning the pressure never goes away. So I don't fight it. I feed off it. I turn pressure into motivation to do my best.

But one of the things I learned is that when you fight for something you believe in and you tell the truth and you do your best you can always hold your head up high and no one can take that away from you.

You always want to quit while you are ahead. You don't want to be like a fighter who stays too long in the ring until you're not performing at your best.

I just want to do what I do best and that's fight. I love it.

My husband and I are best of friends first and foremost. We fight like cats and dogs but never stay mad for long. I was lucky to find him he is in every way my soulmate.

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best night and day to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.

Boxing is my real passion. I can go to ballet theatre movies or other sporting events... and nothing is like the fights to me. I'm excited by the visual beauty of it. A boxer can look so spectacular by doing a good job.

I am not fighting for success just to get more beauty out of myself and share it with more people.