A biography for Demetrious Johnsonhasn’t been written yet.
“I'd rather have head stomps and kicks to the head on the ground rather than elbows because I think to kick someone in the head while they're laying on their back is very hard. Elbows are easy. You can be here, and I just cut you and won the fight.”
“I'm never going to turn down a fight.”
“I love fighting for the UFC. It's an amazing company. I've done a lot of great things, and they've done a lot of great things for my career.”
“I've knocked people out from the clinch. I've submitted people from armbars, Kimura, last-second armbars. I've knocked people out with one-hand punch.”
“You're starting to see a lot of fighters, like, 'We want more money so we can be able to retire eventually,' instead of, we get to 30 years old, and we're like, 'Alright, I think Costco has openings.'”
“UFC has failed to market and promote me appropriately.”
“You can tell MMA is a carb sport because it's fast; it's explosive. It's not a fat storage sport.”
“The first time I fought Ian McCall, I cut carbs completely out of my diet all through training camp. I was afraid I wasn't going to make weight, that I'd get on the scale, and it would be all, 'He weighs 128,' and the people would throw cabbage at me. I basically cut all carbs on the diet, just eat chicken and greens all the time.”
“That's one of the things I loved about Pride: the first round was ten minutes.”
“I grew up with a single mom, two brothers, and a sister, and after school, we would play outside then go home for dinner and play videogames together. It's something I enjoy doing, and it's also cheap entertainment compared to a movie or paying for cable. You pay $50 one time for a game, and you can play it as many times as you want.”
“I do not like getting hit. I can take a hit, but I don't want to damage my brain if I don't have to.”
“I think the reason I'm the best pound-for-pound fighter in the world is I beat everyone in my division.”
“In wrestling, when I was in high school, my coach said you should be able to hit every single move from any position. So, arm drag to double-leg, snap-down to double-leg. You should be able to hit a move from anywhere, so with my armbar, I can essentially hit it from any position because it's my favorite submission.”
“I saw Bobby Green and Lando Vannata, and everybody in the back was like, 'Oh, man, that's a sick fight!' And I'm like, 'Dude, look at his face, that cannot be good for his brain.' I'm just honest.”
“I'm very well-rounded. It's mixed martial arts.”
“I hope people can remember me as the greatest. Who knows?”
“There are things - I want to compete in a big tournament, like an eight-man tournament, like the old fighters. You're going to compete; you're going to fight this one and this one.”
“When I'm done my mixed martial arts career, the only people who are gonna remember me and respect what I did and how I lived my life are my two children. That's my legacy, ladies and gentlemen.”
“That's the beautiful thing about mixed martial arts - and I'll tell people that - you have to think outside of the box.”
“Me, I'm a working-class man, and I go to my job, put in the work, and walk away clean and unscathed, and I like it that way.”