Quotes from Daniel Cormier

I don't mind Ryan Bader thinking he deserves a title shot.

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

Jon Jones, grow up, bud. We're going to fight regardless of how you feel. And when we do, and I'm cutting the line, and you might as well pull the guard because I'm taking you down.

Dan Henderson, even when you're close and he hits you from very, very close, you can feel how heavy his hands are. His hands are pretty powerful.

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.

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

I'm not really worried about what Anthony Johnson does. I have to worry about what I do to prepare myself.

People in Toronto love to watch fights.

In my opinion, whenever you get two guys who want to fight each and two guys who want to be in a good fight, you let them fight.

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

If I didn't have the wrestling name that I have, I wouldn't have gotten the financial contract that I got with Strikeforce or the long-term contract or the television contract. That's all because of wrestling.

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.

Wrestling is a hard sport, but it's only a sport.

When you look at my record at 10-0 as a professional and look at Jon Jones' record when he was 10-0, who was his toughest guy? Stephan Bonnar, and he did not finish him. I have fought higher-caliber opponents at this stage in my career than Jon did in his at 9-1; His tenth fight was Matt Hammil.

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.

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

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.

I think after I beat Ryan Bader, he should have to go get beat up by Anthony Johnson for being so disrespectful to Anthony Johnson.

I'm not on a slander campaign to ruin Jon Jones publicly. That's not what I set out to do.

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

I had a really dark time after the Olympic Games... But then I said to myself, 'This is a sport that's blessed me with a home, with an education, with some money. I can't hate this sport. This sport took me out of Louisiana. This sport gave me a chance when so many people don't get a chance. And I love this sport.'

My confidence comes from me, not from Jon Jones. I can't draw my confidence from another person.

I was a fan of Jon Jones. I thought he was great.