Top 113 Quotes & Sayings by Daniel Cormier - Page 2

People like to call themselves fans of fighting and fans of the sport, but if you're a fan of fighting, how can you not like watching Demetrious Johnson? He's the best at it. He's the pound-for-pound best fighter in the world. Why wouldn't you enjoy watching that guy perform? He does a phenomenal job every time he's in there.

Throughout my entire life, I've always been a captain. I was the captain of my high school team. I was the captain at Oklahoma State University. I was the captain of the 2008 Olympic team.

People in Toronto love to watch fights.

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

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.

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.

My daughter passed away in 2003.

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.

When I came into the gym, I wasn't just some guy. I was a two-time Olympian.

Just being in the gym every day with someone with goals in common is special.

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?

When I watch Rumble Johnson, he's a bully. He bullies guys. He makes them go backward, and he traps them. I'm not going to allow that. If he tries to bully me, I'll stand right in front of him, and if he hits me, I'll hit him right back. And then we'll see how the bully handles it when nobody is going to run away from him.

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

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

A lot of people want to discredit me.

If you value your wins and you value what you've done over the course of your career, then you wouldn't want people harboring over a loss, even though you fought extremely well.

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.

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

I'm gonna live my life the correct way, and I'm gonna be a champion the kids look up to and hopefully aspire to be like.

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.

When I said I could beat Alexander Gustafsson in a standup fight, people laughed at me. They thought, 'No way.' But I believe in what I'm seeing every day.

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.

Some people just don't like you; you cannot satisfy everyone. But I've got a lot of supportive fans - people who do like me, do enjoy what I do.

I've done nothing wrong. Some people just don't like me. Maybe I'm somebody that's easy to dislike, but I don't get it. Whatever. I'll do what I do.

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.

I'm not nervous standing with anyone.

I'm confident in my team. I'm confident in my coaches. I'm confident in my ability. I worked really hard to become a better mixed martial artist.

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 have to be very vocal about being willing to fight anyone.

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

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.

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

You've got to be all-in on this sport; you can't be one foot out the door.

Fvery time Anthony and I are supposed to fight, the lines come out, and it's like we're dead even. It's like people don't know what to make of a fight between Daniel Cormier and Anthony Johnson, when in reality, it should be very easy to know what to make of a fight between me and Anthony Johnson.

At the end of the day, I'm a man.

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

I've always had a chip on my shoulder. It kind of drives me. It's something that allows me to train harder, train longer, work better.

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.

You train, you fight, you show respect at the end of it.

Every day I wake up and I realize how lucky I am to be living this life.

One of my biggest assets is my ability to focus on something and go out and get it, but it's one of my biggest weaknesses too.

Everyone deals with adversity. It's how you bounce back from it.

I feel good because it's my first finish in UFC. Training camp was long and hard and I prepared for a long fight but I have no complaints. I'm going to stay in this cycle and be this healthy in every camp. I feel great with this nutrition and the way my body has reacted to it. I'm firing on all cylinders. I've been talking about this move down for a long time and when you do it the right way you don't feel any effects. I don't want to make this harder than it needs to be. I've got great coaches and I know I haven't peaked yet. I’m going to keep getting better and I’m taking on all comers.

I don't want to lose ever. I don't want to lose at anything. I want to make weight faster than the guy that I'm fighting if we both go into the sauna at the same time. When we're doing interviews I want to have quicker wit so that I can make him feel stupid. I want to drink my water faster. And then when we get in the cage I want to beat him up. I don't think people really truly understand the extent that I go to try not to use.

If you truly believe in yourself and your skills, most times, it's enough.

With the skills that I have and with my commitment to getting better I don't see any reason I can't win every single fight I'm in.

If I'm to accomplish my goal of being the world champion I've got to be better; so every day I come in here with a goal, and that's to get better.

No matter how bad things get, eventually the sun is going to shine. If you just keep at it, pursuing your goals, eventually good things happen to decent people. For a person who is set on his goals, good things will happen. Everyone deals with adversity, it's how you bounce back from it.

No matter how bad things get, eventually the sun is going to shine.

Work ethic, confidence, a laser focus and commitment to accomplish a goal that most people can never imagine.

When you got a guy that has purpose, now your in a dog fight.

No matter how much I respect someone or how much I like someone, it doesn't exceed my will to win.