I believe I get the belt then I’ll get the money. I’m not trying to be the best fighter in the world. It’s all about the cheddar.
DERRICK LEWISAs long as they pay me good, that’s all I care about.
More Derrick Lewis Quotes
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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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Like a lot of people have said, it’s not a bad loss to lose to Mark Hunt, so it’s really like a learning lesson.
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I just feel that all the top fighters in the world are making all the money.
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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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I go into every fight with a bad back and overweight and a damn-near diabetic.
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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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My goal is just to make as much money as I can in the sport, and that’s it.
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I don’t care if I ever fight for the belt or get the belt.
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The sport itself is dangerous. Anything can happen.
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I ain’t trying to fight for no title.
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I just like being in fun fights.
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You eat salad and you’re hungry the next 30 minutes and you’re hungrier from when you ate the damn salad.
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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 always had dreamed one day Bruce Buffer’s going to be introducing me. Derrick ‘The Black Beast’ Lewis and I just always pictured him saying it.
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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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