This heavyweight division, it takes just one punch for anyone. It doesn’t matter how hard you train or what.
DERRICK LEWISI hate being in boring fights. It frustrates me.
More Derrick Lewis Quotes
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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.
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That would be great if I could be a role model or inspiration to those who have been in my shoes before.
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I throw so hard because I sit and wait for that perfect moment.
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I’m an optimistic guy.
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I tell people all the time that it would be good if they forget about me next week, that they don’t even mention my name anymore.
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I just believe that my heart is the best in the sport. And I believe that’s what carried me through my whole career. Not my talent or my power or anything like that. I just believe my heart.
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Bowing and showing respect – I don’t give nothing about none of that. I’m just coming in and fighting.
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My heart outweighs all the talent. If they’ve got more talent, I believe that my heart will still overcome that. You’ve got to have heart to step inside the octagon anyway.
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I made my third parole and I believe if I had made it the first time, I wouldn’t be here today. I still would’ve been out there doing stupid stuff.
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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.
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I 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.
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As long as they pay me good, that’s all I care about.
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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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For sure, I would love to fight in Houston.
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I’ve been in that situation many times before – where I’m losing and I have to knock a guy out.
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