Ronda Rousey: ‘‘No One Has The Right to Beat Me”

“When I wake up in the morning I have an alarm set on my phone and I’ll put little notes on my alarm. My note this morning was ‘Wake up gorgeous!’” UFC champion Ronda Rousey says. “And sometimes it’s ‘Get up champ!’ So the first thing I see in the morning is a motivating compliment.”

There’s no doubt that the boxer is strong, physically, but she also understands the strength that comes with exercising her mental muscle—it’s those positive meditations, beliefs and actions that help carry Rousey, 28, through.

“My mantra? ‘No one has the right to beat me.’ It’s not something that I repeat. It’s probably something I say to myself once…because it’s believed,” she says with conviction. “I’m not trying to convince myself of it.”

In this video—that’s both literally and figuratively powerful—Rousey dishes on what she does during the week leading up to a fight, why boxing is actually just like music and the exact way to knock somebody out. (Hint: It’s a mental game, not a physical one.)

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