You eat salad and you’re hungry the next 30 minutes and you’re hungrier from when you ate the damn salad.
DERRICK LEWISThe 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.
More Derrick Lewis Quotes
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I don’t train like a mixed martial artist. I don’t respect the sport like everyone else does.
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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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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.
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I just like being in fun fights.
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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 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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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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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.
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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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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.’
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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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The guys in the top five, they’re good everywhere. Me, I’m just almost one-dimensional.
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I’m fighting just so I can take care of my family.
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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 have a couple of properties. Bought some houses and just rent them out.
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