Demetrious Johnson Quotes

Demetrious Johnson

Profession : Athlete

Birth : August 13, 1986

My mind can't always be on fighting.

Demetrious Johnson

Some days I have off like Thursday and Sunday but typically Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday are dedicated to training if I'm in fight camp.

Demetrious Johnson

I wake up around 8:30, 8:45. I eat my breakfast, hit the road by 10 A.M., and get to the gym by 11.

Demetrious Johnson

We've always been into juicing. It's one of the things that my wife likes to do. She's a vegetarian, so she loves to juice. And I'm a big health freak - well, when I feel like being it.

Demetrious Johnson

For me, I don't need to juice to make weight for my fights. I just do it for the health benefits - to keep my body healthy and to get my greens in me.

Demetrious Johnson

I can eat whatever I want, and I don't get over 145 pounds. A lot of the guys who fight at 125 pounds, they get pretty big, and when it gets closer to the fight, they're walking around at 135 pounds. For me, I try to stay the same weight I typically walk around at.

Demetrious Johnson

I do have my cheat meals. I have Oreos inside the house right now, and I have beer and fried chicken and waffles. All that good stuff. But once it comes down to when I really want to get in shape and get lean, I'll eat clean and go with whole foods.

Demetrious Johnson

I don't want to say I was ever scared to voice my opinion. I was just trying to make a good example, I guess you could say. And even when I'm more outspoken, I believe that I am still making a good example for younger athletes and also future athletes.

Demetrious Johnson

A lot of people misunderstand what it means to have good cardio. Good cardio is when you are able to push the fight, and I've shown that in all of my fights.

Demetrious Johnson

You have to take the belt, and I dont give my opponents a chance to take my belt. I go out there and take away their opportunity to take my belt away from me.

Demetrious Johnson

I wasn't a person who hated working. When I was working and training, I loved it. I loved that I had to work that hard. I think it transformed into the gym and then transformed into the octagon. It was a good thing.

Demetrious Johnson

If you look at the end of a roll of toilet paper, like the brown paper tube, I basically worked in a factory that made humongous ones like that - for concrete or anything you wanted to put in there. I was the guy who chopped those up into smaller pieces, put them in a box, throw it in a pallet, wrap it up, jump in a forklift and put it on a truck.

Demetrious Johnson

At the end of the day, I know what my skill set and abilities are, and it's just going to take people a little while to recognize it. Whether that comes around or not, I'm not going to sit here in the corner and pout about it.

Demetrious Johnson

I don't have small goals; I just have goals, and it's, one, stay healthy; and two, have a very successful career.

Demetrious Johnson

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.

Demetrious Johnson

I hope people can remember me as the greatest. Who knows?

Demetrious Johnson

I don't allow people's outlook on me dictate what I do in my life and how I live my life.

Demetrious Johnson

I work way too hard in the gym to woo the judges and just skate by.

Demetrious Johnson

I'm a smaller guy, so I train at a high pace.

Demetrious Johnson

Honestly, just all the love and respect from the fans, that's always the biggest thing that puts a smile on my face.

Demetrious Johnson