Quotes from Dominick Cruz

Loss is part of life. If you don't have loss, you don't grow.

I fight to drive my percentages through the roof for winning and lower my percentage by taking the least amount of damage and least amount of hits.

You have two choices: You can take what you're given or build with what you've got. I choose to build with what I've got and try to make the best of it because I've still been given a stage. I've still got cameras in front of my face when I want them, and I plan to run with it.

My mom was always very, very careful with my mind: what I saw and didn't see.

I don't need fighting. It's the cherry on top to this beautiful life I've been given.

I didn't grow up with a lot of money, so my mom didn't have random money to buy me a car, and I didn't have money to have a car unless I worked, so I didn't get a car until I got my first job at 18.

Always think and be positive.

I'm still the best bantamweight in the world in my mind, yes. If I had any doubt that I was the best in the world then I shouldn't be competing. If you don't think you're going to be the best, what's the point?

Greatness is a life mission being the best is not about being better than anyone else but striving to be the best that you can and bringing out the best in others

At five years old, I became the man of the house. When he left, my dad let me know that. It put a certain drive in me that I can't explain.

I never criticized one person in any way that I did not believe was true. How am I a mean guy if I'm telling the truth? Because nobody wants to hear the truth.

If you're looking to be a professional athlete on the top tier of any sport, my best advice is to put everything you have into it. If you're not, somebody else is. It's got to be all or nothing.

There's more to the sport than just fighting, and you either understand that, or you don't. And if you don't, then I promise you the guys that are worth money don't want to fight you, because you don't get it.

The guys that drive Lamborghinis, Ferraris, Bentley GTs, it's because they want to flaunt the fancy car and get the girls and stuff.

I think we are here to challenge ourselves and make ourselves better people and not just sit around in the world simply floating through life. You should be trying to do something great and making yourself better. You should be trying to evolve. That's what I'm trying to do, and that is very important to me.

The whole point of this game is that everything flows together in one simple movement... it should just flow and be fluid. And that's what I want to bring to the table every single time I fight. And I enjoy making it look, you know, like an art.

At a certain point, when I let go and was done - when I stopped and could say I was blessed and thankful to be a champion, when I finally enjoyed life from this different perspective - that's when I healed. Letting go healed me.

I am the best in the world, and all these guys are fighting me to gain credit.

For a long time, I felt like my identity was to fight. My identity was to be a world champion. That almost defined me.

If you want to be that world champion, you have to be willing to beat anybody on this planet - no strings attached.

I kill hype for a living.

Preparation is a mentality... With wrestling being my background, I've always learned to overwork, overwork. Work, work, work, work. It's not always the talented that wins, but it's the one who puts in the most preparation and thought into things.

I'm not always 'Dominick Cruz, Tough Guy.' Depression runs in my bloodline.

Everybody's got a puncher's chance in this game. I mean every single person on Earth. But my whole focus, my whole style, my whole dynamic is built around taking that power away from you. So where is the logic in why you're different from anybody else? There is no logic in it.