Top 113 Quotes & Sayings by Daniel Cormier
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Last updated on December 21, 2024.
I need to be competing. Coaching is good, but I like to be in the fire.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 was into basketball, but then once I found contact sports, it was over. I never played basketball again in my life.
Gustafsson is a stud, man. He's a good fighter.
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.
Who I have fought and how I have fought, it says something about me.
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.
If you're the UFC champion, you're the best in the world at what you do, and I get the opportunity to do that.
Wrestling is a hard sport, but it's only a sport.
I think I'm as good if not better than everyone else.
I think Mickey Gall's going to be really good.
I'm not a guy that really likes to pile onto somebody. Doesn't really matter who it is.
I've dealt with a lot in my life.
I grew up in Louisiana. We have red beans and rice, and there's a Popeye's on every corner.
You don't see many Jon Jones's.
My confidence comes from my fights and my training.
I'm so bad at baseball, I can't even hit now.
I love Mike Tyson. I was a fan, as everybody else was. The moment somebody stood up to him, he didn't do so well. And that's the same thing with Anthony Johnson. The guy's a bully. He wants to intimidate you; he wants to dominate you. He wants to knock you out. But what happens when you don't knock somebody out? What happens?
I'm not really worried about what Anthony Johnson does. I have to worry about what I do to prepare myself.
In my opinion, whenever you get two guys who want to fight each and two guys who want to be in a good fight, you let them fight.
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.
You can love me, you can hate me, but just don't be indifferent. Care about it enough to watch.
I went and worked at a TV station in Stillwater. I was actually account manager for commercial accounts, selling ad space and everything.
My confidence comes from me, not from Jon Jones. I can't draw my confidence from another person.
My confidence comes from knowing I do the right things in my life. I do the right things in the gym. I do the right things all together.
I usually fight a lot. 2015, I fought three times. I fought three of the best guys in the entire world.
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.
You don't get to the highest levels of the sport without having the basics in order.
The only thing that can ever make a Louisiana boy feel better is Popeye's.
I was a fan of Jon Jones. I thought he was great.
You have to be a champion in all facets of life.
Legacy does matter to me, and I want to leave a good one in MMA.
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.'
I know what I've done, and I know who I am.
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.
Ovince Saint Preux needs to know that not only me but every other guy at the American Kickboxing Academy are ready and open to open those doors in trying to help him accomplish his goals.
I want to be regarded as the best guy in the world, and I want to beat the best guy in the world.
I think that Amanda Nunes and Julianna Pena and Valentina Shevchenko... they've showed how much this level has gone up in female fighting in a very short period of time.
My resume, my career, and my legacy in this sport means more to me then collecting some checks.
If you say John Smith is the greatest wrestler in Oklahoma history, now that's big.
A lot of times, losing a fight is tough. In your darkest hours, I guess your true colors show.
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.
I'm not on a slander campaign to ruin Jon Jones publicly. That's not what I set out to do.
If there's an opportunity for me to compete at something, I'm there.
How can you train if you're constantly worried about getting injured?
I want to be the best.
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.
I don't mind playing spoiler.
I've always been a rough kid.
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.
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.
It's very difficult to make a 100% turnaround. It's tough when you actually do exhibit patterns of bad behavior. You need to have a very strong support system of people who are willing to keep you in your place if you're going to overcome these things.
My little girl's in Heaven. She's my angel, and I can draw from that.
It's unfair to think that we can do what we do with the intensity that we do it and expect injuries to not happen.
I have definitely worked on that... being efficient and also being smarter with my pressure.
I do believe, whenever this is all said and done, we won't talk about Mickey Gall, the guy that beat CM Punk; we'll just talk about Mickey Gall, the guy who is a top 10 fighter, a good welterweight or maybe a great welterweight.
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