I didn't get to go to school functions growing up. I didn't get to go to dances. I was never invited to a party ever. Until I got to college and threw a party, I had never even been to one.

As fighters, the stark reality is, there's times in that cage when we want out. There's times when we've had enough and we want out, and we're able to recognize defeat.

Very normal trajectory of a fighter's career - you start out fighting at the YMCA. You move on to the dog park. You get into a coliseum. On your way out, you go back to the YMCA, and then you finish up at the dog park.

Sports are something that, for the most part, are for kids, and if you're able to extend your career, you're very lucky.

To the general public, it's the nature of the sport that it's a car-dominant sport.

It's college basketball and there's a certain amount of uncertainty. As an assistant coach, you do the best job you can to win.

All's fair in love and war and sport - even when you're fighting against your sister.

In recent generations, women's sports have been a blessing. Some of us can remember the bad old days in the '50s, when we would discover in casual schoolyard play that a girl could outrun most of us or hold her own in basketball or hit a softball - but there were no teams, no coaches, for girls.