Demetrious Johnson Quotes

I do a lotta trash talking to keep me motivated, to keep me to not want to lose.

My next fight is always the most important fight, so regardless if I'm fighting for the title or not, I always have to go in there and give everything that I've got.

I have to switch my own mentality into a winning mode, not playing for myself or trying to be selfish.

Before I was going into tournaments and just hoping I would win one match. But now I'll go into tournaments expecting to do well and if I bring my best game I know I can win them and beat all the big players.

I don't adjust my training for any of my opponents. I don't watch films on my opponents.

I love to prepare if it's something that requires training. But I don't like to prepare the psychology too much.

When you've won a gold medal and you're at the top of your sport, everyone's trying to beat you. I find that incredibly motivating.

You need to play with supreme confidence, or else you'll lose again, and then losing becomes a habit.

You have to go into each match believing you can beat all of the players.

I have reasons to believe that I could win the World Cup, but I take it one race at a time.

Athletes have to be confident and I am thinking like that.

I'm a sports junkie, and I am interested in athletic will - how you exceed the expectations of your own performance when it counts to deliver something beyond yourself so that you can win.

Concentrate, play your game, and don't be afraid to win.

When I go out on the ice, I just think about my skating. I forget it is a competition.

I can't worry about techs. I've got to play my game.

I never think: 'If I crash, I'm going to hurt myself.' I might think: 'If I crash, I'm not going to win.' Everything's about that finish line.

You have to forget you are playing against your idol, because the guy on the other side also wants to play better than you and beat you. I don't think you should allow yourself to think like this when you go against any player.

It is important to start winning international tournaments early and get that mentality into you. Then, hopefully, you can take it on to the world stage.

I always say my biggest competitor is myself because, whenever I step out there on the mat, I'm competing against myself to prove that I can do this and that I am very well trained, prepared for it.

I think something that has separated me from the rest of the competition - maybe it's just my way of thinking - I don't necessarily go into fights just wanting to win but to actually dominate. So when I don't feel like I dominate, sometimes I feel like a loser, I guess, you know, maybe in that perspective.

Coaching 'The Ultimate Fighter' in my weight class, I couldn't do it. I'd basically be coaching people to beat me. I'm going to give you my riddle?

I can't be getting off my game. I need to be getting teams off their games.

You have to prepare yourself mentally and physically by training and knowing how to take care of yourself the best you can so that you're able to fight and get to where you want to be.

I get quite stroppy if I lose - but I've developed skills with a mind coach to help deal with the highs and lows of tennis at this level.

I can only control what I do when I go compete.