There’s nothing I really want to accomplish. I already set my family up pretty good right now.
DERRICK LEWISA 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.
More Derrick Lewis Quotes
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I ain’t trying to fight for no title.
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I go in to fight just to fight. I don’t care about submissions, the technique and all of that.
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I hate being in boring fights. It frustrates me.
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I really don’t punch with my left hand anyways.
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It’s all the stuff I’ve been through in my life. From family struggles, people doubting me, things I went through as a child and going to prison, they all played a factor in who I am today. It really made me a better person. Going through those situations can make or break you as a human being.
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I really don’t like watching women fights.
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I like to fight tough fights.
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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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I’m fighting just so I can take care of my family.
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Basically, I guess they just thinking I’ve been winning my fights just by luck. I just think I’ve been winning my fights on heart.
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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’ve been in that situation many times before – where I’m losing and I have to knock a guy out.
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You know, once you have the belt you want to be less active, fighting once a year.
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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 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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