Zitat des Tages von Dominick Cruz:
For a long time, I felt like my identity was to fight. My identity was to be a world champion. That almost defined me.
I think we are here to challenge ourselves and make ourselves better people and not just sit around in the world simply floating through life. You should be trying to do something great and making yourself better. You should be trying to evolve. That's what I'm trying to do, and that is very important to me.
I'm ready to live in the present - not the past and not in the future - because in the present is where there's peace.
What good is power if there's no connection point? My entire style's built around that actual basis.
My mom was always very, very careful with my mind: what I saw and didn't see.
Even when I was hurt with triple ACL reconstructive surgeries, there was a target on my back. I had to come back and fight through it.
Loss is part of life. If you don't have loss, you don't grow.
I'm not always 'Dominick Cruz, Tough Guy.' Depression runs in my bloodline.
When I'm done fighting, I want to look to get some sort of driving career somewhere. My goal is to eventually get into the Mint 400 and do the trophy truck stuff.
Once I dedicated my time to mixed martial arts, I became careful about what I let into my mind. I made a goal of being the best on Earth in mixed martial arts and fighting. I wanted to build my mind into something good, not just of the world. I wanted to be different.
If you want to be that world champion, you have to be willing to beat anybody on this planet - no strings attached.
The whole point of this game is that everything flows together in one simple movement... it should just flow and be fluid. And that's what I want to bring to the table every single time I fight. And I enjoy making it look, you know, like an art.
I feel that I fell somewhat under that category where I was using fighting to kind of run from my own self to an extent, to kind of numb the things that I thought about myself. When I had fighting taken away, I was forced to look at myself in the mirror and say, 'What are you without fighting?'