Daniel Cormier

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

“I'm confident in my team. I'm confident in my coaches. I'm confident in my ability. I worked really hard to become a better mixed martial artist.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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 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?”

“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.”

“I have definitely worked on that... being efficient and also being smarter with my pressure.”

“When you start fighting, when your dream is to be the champion of the world, when you accomplish that, you don't feel lost. It doesn't hinder you. It only helps.”

“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 want to be regarded as the best guy in the world, and I want to beat the best guy in the world.”

“I've dealt with a lot in my life.”

“My confidence comes from my fights and my training.”

“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'm not nervous standing with anyone.”

“As a champion and one of the best fighters in the world, guys should always step up to the plate and want to fight Jon Jones.”

“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.”

“There are ways to win fights, and sometimes you don't always choose the easiest way to win a fight.”

“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.”

“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.”