Daniel Cormier

Because of the access to recovery, I think athletes are smarter today.

Those guys are very young.

So when we're younger, like you're in your 20s, you're in your 30s, you're Superman.

You go to sleep, you jump out of bed, you go to train.

Every day.

But then as you start to get older, the body starts to ache a little more.

But those guys in their 20s and 30s are not

They're not rejecting the body anymore.

They're saying at 25, while I may feel great, I know there are problems underlying for me that I need to address, make sure that I'm straight.

And I think that's why they're playing so long.

But they're playing at an elite level.

I remember when Peyton Manning went to Denver.

He said it himself.

He goes, I can't throw the ball down the field.

He goes, but I will manage a game.

Every now and again, I'll give you one that goes a little deeper.

Right.

He goes, but I'm managing the game because at the point we were still kind of living in that that world where you just age and then you age out.

And even Aaron Rodgers right now.

Right.