Daniel Cormier Quotes
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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.
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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.'
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I was into basketball, but then once I found contact sports, it was over. I never played basketball again in my life.
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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.
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A lot of times, losing a fight is tough. In your darkest hours, I guess your true colors show.
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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.
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I'm not really worried about what Anthony Johnson does. I have to worry about what I do to prepare myself.
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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.
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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.
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It's like I cannot separate myself from Jon Jones.
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I'm not a guy that really likes to pile onto somebody. Doesn't really matter who it is.
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I have definitely worked on that... being efficient and also being smarter with my pressure.
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I'm not on a slander campaign to ruin Jon Jones publicly. That's not what I set out to do.
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There are ways to win fights, and sometimes you don't always choose the easiest way to win a fight.
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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?
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I'm so bad at baseball, I can't even hit now.
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Wrestling is a hard sport, but it's only a sport.
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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.
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I want to be regarded as the best guy in the world, and I want to beat the best guy in the world.
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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.
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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.
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I don't mind playing spoiler.
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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.
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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.