Ronda Rousey Quotes

I never really wanted to be, I don't want to say, an average engineer. I always wanted to do something different, something more exciting.

I have always been ahead of my time.

I'm not usually a follower of trends - I like to set them a lot more. I don't like things that people have done already, then it's no fun for me to do it.

Every band I've worked with also wants to be countercultural in the sense that they want to feel that they've gone somewhere that nobody else has been.

But now I realize that this record business really needs me. No one else is trying to take a chance or do something different.

I was always a rebel in the sense that I always wanted to go my own road and do something that nobody else has done.

To be great is to be misunderstood.

Anyone who creates something new or does something different artistically is going to be singled out.

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

I'm often accused of being ahead of my time, but it's simply not true. The truth is that everybody else is behind.

I like companies that try and break away from the norm.

I just remember I wanted to make my own dynasty and not keep following trends. I wanted to make my own.

There is a lot of noise out there. I don't want to follow the trend - I want to create the trend.

The man with a new idea is a crank until his idea succeeds.

I've always wanted to do things different, always wanted to be the person who stands out from the pack.

I don't want to follow in the footsteps of anybody that went before, because they didn't do what I want to do.

I don't like following in people's footsteps; I like making my own trail.

I love being the dude that does what no else is doing in the genre. It's exciting and terrifying at the same time.

There is no well-trodden route to where I am, no formula to replicate.

I feel like I wanted to run differently than everybody else did. And I want to do things that everybody else hasn't done.

I've always tried to do things a little bit before they were being done by the mainstream. I challenge myself to do that in stand-up also, to talk about things that I'm not hearing anybody talk about onstage and in the media.

We need these figures who don't exactly go against the grain but create a new grain.

I always try to do something nobody else has done.

If I did what has already been done, I would be a plagiarist and would consider myself unworthy; so I do something different and people call me a scoundrel. I'd rather be a scoundrel than a plagiarist!

I'm someone who always wants to do everything differently. If I have a pattern, I'd rather I didn't have a pattern. I want every book to be unpredictable and new. Damn it!