Quotes by Dominick Cruz - Page 1

I kill hype for a living.
Dominick Cruz / Mixed Martial Artist
Hype
Living
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Always think and be positive.
Dominick Cruz / Mixed Martial Artist
Being Positive
Thinking
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Lack of conditioning will make a coward of us all.
Dominick Cruz / Mixed Martial Artist
Conditioning
Coward
Mma
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If you want something you have to will it into experience
Dominick Cruz / Mixed Martial Artist
Mma
Want
Want Something
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Loss is part of life. If you don't have loss, you don't grow.
Dominick Cruz / Mixed Martial Artist
Loss
Grow
Part
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Infuse heart, soul, spirit and passion because talent is not enough
Dominick Cruz / Mixed Martial Artist
Heart
Passion
Soul
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I'm not always 'Dominick Cruz, Tough Guy.' Depression runs in my bloodline.
Dominick Cruz / Mixed Martial Artist
Depression
Cruz
Tough
Tough Guy
Runs
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My mom was always very, very careful with my mind: what I saw and didn't see.
Dominick Cruz / Mixed Martial Artist
Careful
Saw
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I am the best in the world, and all these guys are fighting me to gain credit.
Dominick Cruz / Mixed Martial Artist
Credit
Best World I Am
Best World Fighting
Gain
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I don't need fighting. It's the cherry on top to this beautiful life I've been given.
Dominick Cruz / Mixed Martial Artist
Beautiful Life
Fighting
Given
Cherry
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What good is power if there's no connection point? My entire style's built around that actual basis.
Dominick Cruz / Mixed Martial Artist
Actual
No Connection
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I don't need to beat Faber, because his ego will always beat him. He's got excuses for every loss he's ever had.
Dominick Cruz / Mixed Martial Artist
Loss
Excuses
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If you want to be that world champion, you have to be willing to beat anybody on this planet - no strings attached.
Dominick Cruz / Mixed Martial Artist
Strings
Willing
Anybody
Attached
Beat
Planet
World Champion
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I'm ready to live in the present - not the past and not in the future - because in the present is where there's peace.
Dominick Cruz / Mixed Martial Artist
Ready
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For a long time, I felt like my identity was to fight. My identity was to be a world champion. That almost defined me.
Dominick Cruz / Mixed Martial Artist
Defined
World Champion
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You really have to humble yourself and take your ass whippings to understand that you can learn something from somebody
Dominick Cruz / Mixed Martial Artist
Ass
Humble
Humble Yourself
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The guys that drive Lamborghinis, Ferraris, Bentley GTs, it's because they want to flaunt the fancy car and get the girls and stuff.
Dominick Cruz / Mixed Martial Artist
Fancy
Drive
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Even when I was hurt with triple ACL reconstructive surgeries, there was a target on my back. I had to come back and fight through it.
Dominick Cruz / Mixed Martial Artist
Target
Triple
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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.
Dominick Cruz / Mixed Martial Artist
Dad
Certain
Five
House
Left
Dad Man Me
Drive
Became
Old
Explain
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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.
Dominick Cruz / Mixed Martial Artist
Damage
Roof
Percentage
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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.
Dominick Cruz / Mixed Martial Artist
Telling The Truth
Criticized
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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
Dominick Cruz / Mixed Martial Artist
Being The Best
Greatness
Striving To Be The Best
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When I'm done fighting, I want to look to get some sort of driving career somewhere. My goal is to eventually get into the Mint 400 and do the trophy truck stuff.
Dominick Cruz / Mixed Martial Artist
Mint
Truck
Trophy
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I've never not owned a stick shift. There's something about manual transmissions that I really appreciate and enjoy. And besides that, I like driving; I enjoy driving.
Dominick Cruz / Mixed Martial Artist
Driving
Besides
Manual
Owned
Shift
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This is a game where if you don't have people who dislike you, then you don't know what it is to be liked. I've had a lot of dislike thrown at me in this game, but I've also had a lot of love.
Dominick Cruz / Mixed Martial Artist
Dislike
Thrown
Love Game Me
Liked
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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.
Dominick Cruz / Mixed Martial Artist
Sports
Athlete
Mma
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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.
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First Job
Random
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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.
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Promise
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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?
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Competing
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Regardless of how tough you think you are, regardless of how good you think your chin is, we're all only one connected punch away from being hurt, and you've just got to hope your chin holds up and your body holds up.
Dominick Cruz / Mixed Martial Artist
Your Body
Hope Good Your
Chin
Holds
Punch
Regardless
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My goal is to become the best person I can, and in the process of doing so, I believe, I can help others. I'm also trying to make history in mixed martial arts and become known as the best 135-pound fighter to ever compete.
Dominick Cruz / Mixed Martial Artist
Fighter
Martial Arts
Process
Best History Believe
Arts
Compete
Help Others
Martial
Mixed
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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.
Dominick Cruz / Mixed Martial Artist
Thankful
Different Perspective
Healed
Letting Go
Certain Point
Let Go
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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.
Dominick Cruz / Mixed Martial Artist
Flow
Fluid
Every Single Time
Flows
Single Time
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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.
Dominick Cruz / Mixed Martial Artist
Mentality
Overwork
Preparation
Talented
Puts
Wins
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From the beginning of your career until the end, you have people telling you, you can't do something or you're only going to get so far. That either drives you to be become the best or it stops you at the stipulations that other people have for you.
Dominick Cruz / Mixed Martial Artist
Careers
Mma
People
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Once I dedicated my time to mixed martial arts, I became careful about what I let into my mind. I made a goal of being the best on Earth in mixed martial arts and fighting. I wanted to build my mind into something good, not just of the world. I wanted to be different.
Dominick Cruz / Mixed Martial Artist
Being The Best
Dedicated
Martial Arts
My Time
Time Best Good
Be Different
Best Time Good
Martial
Mixed
Something Good
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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.
Dominick Cruz / Mixed Martial Artist
Chance
Focus
Logic
Single
Single Person
Anybody
Anybody Else
Dynamic
Taking
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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.
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Cameras
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I didn't deserve to get my title stripped after three ACL reconstructions. I didn't deserve to be out for four years. But it happened to me, and so I definitely learned over the years that you don't deserve anything. Nothing you have is yours. Everything is up for grabs in this world.
Dominick Cruz / Mixed Martial Artist
Deserve
World Me Nothing
Stripped
Title
Yours
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I feel that I fell somewhat under that category where I was using fighting to kind of run from my own self to an extent, to kind of numb the things that I thought about myself. When I had fighting taken away, I was forced to look at myself in the mirror and say, 'What are you without fighting?'
Dominick Cruz / Mixed Martial Artist
Fighting
Numb
Category
Myself Mirror Look
Somewhat
Extent
Forced
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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.
Dominick Cruz / Mixed Martial Artist
Evolve
Floating
Life Great Better
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