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Rousey: I love feeling like a ninja
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<p>Ronda Rousey recently grazed the cover of Self Magazine and talked about how she loves feeling like she's in the body of a ninja and her love of hot wings:</p>
“I love feeling like I’m inhabiting the body of a ninja,” Rousey says, “like I could rob a liquor store with my bare hands if I wanted to.”
CP Did you ever get in street fights as a teen?
RR Yes. Santa Monica didn’t used to be so nice! After school, my friend and I would go to the Promenade, where a lot of shady characters hung out. I loved Frappuccinos, but I only got $5 a day for lunch. If I ate, that meant I didn’t have enough money for a Frappuccino. So we would go over to these kids and say, “I bet you $10 I could beat up any one of you.” There were always some guys who could use the money. We’d fight and I’d do something to get them to give up, and they’d give us $10 and we’d go get Frappuccinos…. That was, like, my side gig for a little while.CP I don’t think anyone would take that $10 today.
RR Well, I don’t fight for Frappuccinos anymore, either.CP Do any fighting strategies carry over into daily life?
RR The one that really sticks out in my mind comes from my mom. She’d always tell me that you have to be your best on your worst day, because what if the Olympics fall on a bad day?CP What else did you learn from her? A lot of girls aren’t brought up to fight.
RR Well, my mom never forced us to do anything. I fight, but my three sisters don’t. What she really taught me was the value of giving up what you want now for what you want most. My sisters were taught that, too, and they carried it through the professions they decided to pursue.CP How do you wind down after a fight?
RR I eat about 50 hot wings. I love hot wings. After my last fight, one of the UFC owners flew in a private chef from São Paulo to Rio de Janeiro so that he could make me hot wings, because there are no hot wings in Rio! That’s how important they are to me.
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