Top 55 Daniel Cormier Quotes

My confidence comes from me, not from Jon Jones. I can’t draw my confidence from another person.

We’ve seen smaller guys in main event fights, and they do well. It just takes the right combination of people I think. I think Dominick Cruz v. T.J. Dillashaw could have main-evented a PPV and done pretty good.

As a champion and one of the best fighters in the world, guys should always step up to the plate and want to fight Jon Jones.

I don’t mind Ryan Bader thinking he deserves a title shot.

I think after I beat Ryan Bader, he should have to go get beat up by Anthony Johnson for being so disrespectful to Anthony Johnson.

You don’t see many Jon Jones’s.

Reach, and all that other stuff, doesn’t play as big a part in MMA as it does in boxing. Guys don’t really fight with their length all that much, because they have to worry about the takedown or kicks. They have to worry about so many other things that they can’t just fight real tall.

I’ve done nothing but show up and fight, go to work inside the Octagon, outside the Octagon, and do things right. But people want to talk about me and discredit me.

How can you train if you’re constantly worried about getting injured?

I have definitely worked on that… being efficient and also being smarter with my pressure.

I’m letting competition drive me, and when competition drives me, I don’t think anyone can compete with me.

You have to be a champion in all facets of life.

My little girl’s in Heaven. She’s my angel, and I can draw from that.

There are ways to win fights, and sometimes you don’t always choose the easiest way to win a fight.

I believe that I will represent this sport in the best light possible. I won’t mess it up. I won’t get myself in any trouble.

Wrestling is a hard sport, but it’s only a sport.

It is my job to sell these fighters. I’m now a business partner of the UFC. What I do directly affects my paycheck. I try my best. I just don’t want people to be indifferent.

I’m honored to be one of the guys that is seen as a leader of this great team – a team that has stood the test of time. AKA is one of the only teams that has been around since the beginning of the MMA explosion, and it’s a huge honor for me to be named captain.

Cain’s an animal, man. Cain’s a competitor. I want to spar with Cain because I know if I’m able to hang with him here in the gym, once I get out there in the cage and fight, I mean, I’ve already gone toe-to-toe with Cain Velasquez, you know?

I have to be smart. You cannot be going in there, trying to go forward and pressure guys, and be taking damage and getting hurt on the way to doing it.

When you start fighting, when your dream is to be the champion of the world, when you accomplish that, you don’t feel lost. It doesn’t hinder you. It only helps.

People always get confused. They talk about coaches. The reality is, these coaches and managers that everybody thinks are in so much control, they work for us. They’re our employees.

My training has always been really tough. I’ve always worked hard. I’ve always been very committed to my training and focused on my workout.

My low center of gravity allows me to defend takedowns a lot better than most people. It’s very hard to get to my legs. It’s going to be really hard to take me down. There are a lot of positives to being my size.

A lot of times, losing a fight is tough. In your darkest hours, I guess your true colors show.

I went through a training camp; I worked extremely hard. I prepared for UFC 200. This was the big one. This one meant everything to me.

I was into basketball, but then once I found contact sports, it was over. I never played basketball again in my life.

It’s like I cannot separate myself from Jon Jones.

Dan Henderson, even when you’re close and he hits you from very, very close, you can feel how heavy his hands are. His hands are pretty powerful.

I’m so bad at baseball, I can’t even hit now.

Guys play basketball and get hurt, and that’s probably the easiest sport on the planet. We’re actually fighting every day. We’re wrestling; we’re grappling.

Food doesn’t necessarily have to suck in order to be healthy. It doesn’t have to be terrible to be healthy anymore.

If I didn’t have the wrestling name that I have, I wouldn’t have gotten the financial contract that I got with Strikeforce or the long-term contract or the television contract. That’s all because of wrestling.

I’ve dealt with a lot in my life.

I will tell you with 100 percent confidence, Jon Jones is not deep in my head. The fact he actually thinks that, it makes me smile every day.

I’m not on a slander campaign to ruin Jon Jones publicly. That’s not what I set out to do.

Being able to go forward has been good, you know? I’m lucky to have that ability, to pressure guys and make them falter and wilt.

I think Mickey Gall’s going to be really good.

I don’t mind playing spoiler.

I’m not stuck in Strikeforce. I’m happy to be with them. It’s where I started, and they’ve been great to me.

I think I’m as good if not better than everyone else.

I went out there, and I fought Anderson Silva, and you know what? I got a big W, and that’s massive for my career going forward.

People in Toronto love to watch fights.

Anthony Johnson hits harder than any other person, no doubt. Every time he hit me, it made me kind of, like, fly all over the place. He was trying to take my head off.

You don’t quit after you get beat. You pick yourself up, and you start rebuilding to accomplish your goals.

Jon Jones, grow up, bud. We’re going to fight regardless of how you feel. And when we do, and I’m cutting the line, and you might as well pull the guard because I’m taking you down.

I had a really dark time after the Olympic Games… But then I said to myself, ‘This is a sport that’s blessed me with a home, with an education, with some money. I can’t hate this sport. This sport took me out of Louisiana. This sport gave me a chance when so many people don’t get a chance. And I love this sport.’

The only thing that can ever make a Louisiana boy feel better is Popeye’s.

At the end of the day, I’m a man.

I’ve always been a rough kid.

Legacy does matter to me, and I want to leave a good one in MMA.

It’s all matchups, and I knew that I matched up well against ‘Rumble’ Johnson.

My resume, my career, and my legacy in this sport means more to me then collecting some checks.

If I would have won that Olympic gold medal, I would have gotten a job somewhere coaching at a university, and I would be totally content with my life.

When you look at my record at 10-0 as a professional and look at Jon Jones’ record when he was 10-0, who was his toughest guy? Stephan Bonnar, and he did not finish him. I have fought higher-caliber opponents at this stage in my career than Jon did in his at 9-1; His tenth fight was Matt Hammil.