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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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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.
Daniel Cormier
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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.
Daniel Cormier -
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.
Daniel Cormier -
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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A lot of times, losing a fight is tough. In your darkest hours, I guess your true colors show.
Daniel Cormier -
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.
Daniel Cormier
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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.
Daniel Cormier -
It's like I cannot separate myself from Jon Jones.
Daniel Cormier -
I'm not a guy that really likes to pile onto somebody. Doesn't really matter who it is.
Daniel Cormier -
I have definitely worked on that... being efficient and also being smarter with my pressure.
Daniel Cormier -
I'm not on a slander campaign to ruin Jon Jones publicly. That's not what I set out to do.
Daniel Cormier -
There are ways to win fights, and sometimes you don't always choose the easiest way to win a fight.
Daniel Cormier
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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?
Daniel Cormier -
I'm so bad at baseball, I can't even hit now.
Daniel Cormier -
Wrestling is a hard sport, but it's only a sport.
Daniel Cormier -
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.
Daniel Cormier -
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.
Daniel Cormier -
I want to be regarded as the best guy in the world, and I want to beat the best guy in the world.
Daniel Cormier
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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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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.
Daniel Cormier -
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.
Daniel Cormier