A biography for Dan Hookerhasn’t been written yet.
“In training, I was always a professional. But it takes so much more than that to compete at the highest level in the UFC. You have to be perfect and you have to be hungry.”
“I'm here to challenge myself against the best guys in the world.”
“Pressure is like a tap, that can only come with experience, I can turn it down, manage it... at the same time, sometimes you need it, you get nerves that bring out the best in you.”
“Providing for my family is something I cannot pass on.”
“I am ultra-competitive and I am the sorest loser.”
“I make nails looks soft.”
“This is just a nasty, nasty sport but it's a perfect storm for me because I'm a nasty man.”
“We're here to entertain and I'm lucky that my style is suited to what people want and how people want to be entertained.”
“I certainly don't have a time machine. I think Floyd Mayweather has a time machine. If anyone has a time machine, Floyd Mayweather has a time machine. I do not have a time machine.”
“Don't look down on BKB. I swear that's my retirement plan. I'm gonna be the BKB champ. That's what I'm coming for. I'm coming in at 100 kilos, no gloves, let's get it.”
“There's so many positive things that you can take from training martial arts, not only fitness-wise but it's also mentally challenging.”
“You have to decide: Do you wanna be known as a tough, exciting fighter that goes out there and puts on great performances, or do you wanna be a world champion? I'm taking the second one 10 times out of 10.”
“Any elite level sportsman aims for perfection. You look at golf. You are really trying to get a hole in one every time, but that's not how the game goes. You have to aim for that perfection.”
“A lot of fighters develop to what they think is their full potential outside of the UFC and they come into UFC and just go downhill from there because they think they don't have to grow and develop anymore.”
“There's good days and bad days in sports. You have to understand that. If you go out and have a bad day, you can't give up. You can't quit your career over one bad day.”
“Every concussion is a completely different kind of injury.”
“There comes a time in the UFC when you've had enough fights, you have enough experience that you're confident in your abilities and you know what you can do.”
“My goal is to be known as the best fighter in the world.”
“You run back and you look at who I've fought, you just look at the division and ask yourself, 'Who don't people want to fight?' That's who I'll probably end up fighting.”
“You can't count a dog like me out of the game. That's just not how it works.”