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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.

Derrick Lewis

You have 20 fights, you should know what it takes to get yourself ready. If you don’t feel like you’re ready, you let your coach know ‘hey we need to work on a little bit more of this.’
DERRICK LEWIS

Fight Limitation Ready Work Yourself
I go into every fight with a bad back and overweight and a damn-near diabetic.
DERRICK LEWIS

Fight Health Myself
That’s usually the way I am – I don’t care what my opponent can do. I just focus on myself.
DERRICK LEWIS

Care Focus Myself Opponent
I wanted to start in boxing, but you have to train a little harder to be a boxer. A lot of those guys can take punches. MMA, you only have to hit someone so hard to knock them out.
DERRICK LEWIS

Boxing Hit Myself Punch Start
I’m serious, I don’t stay in the gym each day like my opponents.
DERRICK LEWIS

Gym Myself Opponent Serious Stay
It would be cool to let people know that it doesn’t matter what kind of background you have in your past, that you can still make something out of your life.
DERRICK LEWIS

Kind Known Life Past People Yourself
If I was really trying to be the best fighter in the world, I would be in the best shape and taking it more serious but I’m not.
DERRICK LEWIS

Best Fight Myself Serious Shape World
I don’t care what people think.
DERRICK LEWIS

Care Myself People Thinking
It’s a job to me, basically. I’m not trying to be the best fighter in the world or nothing like that. I don’t come in trying to think I am the best fighter. I don’t care about none of that. It’s just a job to me.
DERRICK LEWIS

Best Care Fight Myself Think Try
The one thing about me, if it is a 15-minute fight, I’m fighting every one of them 15 minutes. And if it’s a 25-minute fight, I’ll be fighting all 25 until the bell rings.
DERRICK LEWIS

Dedication Effort Fight Inspirational Myself Time
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.
DERRICK LEWIS

Achievement Goal Myself People
The sport itself is dangerous. Anything can happen.
DERRICK LEWIS

Boxing Dangerous Sports
I know just about everything that really goes on with domestic violence.
DERRICK LEWIS

Known Myself Violence
I gotta work on my overall game.
DERRICK LEWIS

Effort Game Myself Work
I grew up watching my mom and my stepdad fight.
DERRICK LEWIS

Argument Childhood Family Father Fight Grow Up Mom Myself
You’ve got to try to find some type of mental edge on your opponent.
DERRICK LEWIS

Edge Finding Opponent Trying Type Yourself

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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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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