Zitat des Tages von Daniel Cormier:
My confidence comes from my fights and my training.
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.
If there's an opportunity for me to compete at something, I'm there.
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.
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.
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 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.
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'm not a guy that really likes to pile onto somebody. Doesn't really matter who it is.
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.
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.
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.
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 know what I've done, and I know who I am.
It's like I cannot separate myself from Jon Jones.
I think I'm as good if not better than everyone else.
Who I have fought and how I have fought, it says something about me.
I'm not really worried about what Anthony Johnson does. I have to worry about what I do to prepare myself.
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 want to be regarded as the best guy in the world, and I want to beat the best guy in the world.
You don't quit after you get beat. You pick yourself up, and you start rebuilding to accomplish your goals.
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.
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.
I need to be competing. Coaching is good, but I like to be in the fire.
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.
You don't see many Jon Jones's.
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.
My daughter passed away in 2003.
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.
Just being in the gym every day with someone with goals in common is special.
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'm not nervous standing with anyone.
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.