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Daniel Cormier Quotes

If you say John Smith is the greatest wrestler in Oklahoma history, now that’s big.

– 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

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.

– Daniel Cormier

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.

– Daniel Cormier

You don’t get to the highest levels of the sport without having the basics in order.

– Daniel Cormier

I don’t mind playing spoiler.

– Daniel Cormier

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.

– Daniel Cormier

I’m so bad at baseball, I can’t even hit now.

– Daniel Cormier

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

– Daniel Cormier

I was into basketball, but then once I found contact sports, it was over. I never played basketball again in my life.

– Daniel Cormier

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.

– Daniel Cormier

My little girl’s in Heaven. She’s my angel, and I can draw from that.

– Daniel Cormier

I went and worked at a TV station in Stillwater. I was actually account manager for commercial accounts, selling ad space and everything.

– 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

You have to be a champion in all facets of life.

– Daniel Cormier

How can you train if you’re constantly worried about getting injured?

– Daniel Cormier

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.

– 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

I went out there, and I fought Anderson Silva, and you know what? I got a big W, and that’s massive for my career going forward.

– Daniel Cormier

If there’s an opportunity for me to compete at something, I’m there.

– Daniel Cormier

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.

– Daniel Cormier

I think Mickey Gall’s going to be really good.

– 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

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.

– Daniel Cormier

I’m honored to be one of the guys that is seen as a leader of this great team – a team that has stood the test of time. AKA is one of the only teams that has been around since the beginning of the MMA explosion, and it’s a huge honor for me to be named captain.

– Daniel Cormier

I usually fight a lot. 2015, I fought three times. I fought three of the best guys in the entire world.

– Daniel Cormier

At the end of the day, I’m a man.

– Daniel Cormier

My resume, my career, and my legacy in this sport means more to me then collecting some checks.

– Daniel Cormier

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.

– Daniel Cormier

You don’t see many Jon Jones’s.

– Daniel Cormier

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