I just really want to put the past behind me, because it makes me angry thinking about it. But it’s also the reason I’ve made it this far in my career. It’s like, built up in me. It’s what I think about when I fight. My childhood.
DERRICK LEWISI think Cormier is gonna come out and try to wrestle me, try to get me tired, and try to push the pace. I know he might not say that I’m on his level but I think I am and he thinking that I’m not, really.
More Derrick Lewis Quotes
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I’ve been through so much stuff that I hope even my enemies wouldn’t have to go through.
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Everyone else is a mixed martial artist. I’m not a mixed martial artist, I’m a brawler.
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I grew up watching my mom and my stepdad fight.
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I used to only train 30 minutes a day.
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I look at all my opponents, and they could be something else. They could go out and get a normal, regular job. I look at myself and I can’t do that. I have a strike on my back. I can’t have a normal job. So, I’ve got to fight for everything I’ve got.
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A lot of people said I would never make it, and this and that, I’d never be a top 10 fighter, that I’d never fight for a title. Just stuff like that. Achieving all those goals and being the person that I am, this is going against everything everyone said I couldn’t do.
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I throw so hard because I sit and wait for that perfect moment.
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I have a lot of anger built up in me from my childhood. My wife and kids are the only ones who give me peace in this world.
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I don’t care if I ever fight for the belt or get the belt.
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I just feel that all the top fighters in the world are making all the money.
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Whatever the UFC wants to pay me for, that’s fine.
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I don’t care where I’m at in the heavyweight division. As long as I win enough, so they keep me. That’s about it.
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I speak my mind too much, and the UFC probably don’t really like that. But I really don’t care.
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The only reason I want to climb up the rankings – beating the champion and beating guys in the top five – those are the guys that get the endorsements and get the most money and get paid the most. That’s the only reason why.
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I know Cormier is a wrestler so you really got to get them hips down on him so I’ve been working them hips really good.
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