"For me, this whole year was like a, ‘All right, let’s make sure not only are you the best fighter you can possibly be let’s just be the healthiest person and the healthiest version of yourself mentally, physically and just overall.’ I think that that’s the biggest thing that I was able to take away.” I want to be able to have a future career later on, so I need my body to be healthy out there, too. There’s a life after fighting, and I want to be able to have a family someday. Make sure that your mentality is ready to go.’ I think it really helped my body to neutralize. “Being a fighter that has come onto the scene really fast, I came on and it was like, ‘Go, go, go, go, go.’ No one ever told me, ‘Hey, let’s focus on making sure that your body is healthy. “A lot of things that I’ve learned mentally was just patience,” Barber said. The time away also forced the rising star to sit back and wait, something anybody in their early-20s understands as an incredibly tedious task.
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We’re still strong, we’re still coming for the title, we’re still chasing our dream, and I’m still that strong fighter that’s coming for what I want.Ī long rehab process followed, one that the COVID-19 pandemic interrupted momentarily. I feel like I took it really well because, yes, we ran into it, but we’re still on that track. I hadn’t run into something where I had to take a detour, and I feel like that was my detour.
“I was the girl that was all success, and everything was good, and I was chasing the title and the whole thing, but the reason why that was because I hadn’t run into a roadblock.
“I was on a fast track,” Barber told UFC.com.
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