The guys in the top five, they’re good everywhere. Me, I’m just almost one-dimensional.
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’m just going to keep fighting, try to stay active as much as possible.
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I speak my mind too much, and the UFC probably don’t really like that. But I really don’t care.
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There’s nothing I really want to accomplish. I already set my family up pretty good right now.
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I’ve been in deep waters a bunch of times in my fights.
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That’s usually the way I am – I don’t care what my opponent can do. I just focus on myself.
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I don’t fight just because I love it just that much. I’m fighting because it’s a job for me.
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I used to only train 30 minutes a day.
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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 throw so hard because I sit and wait for that perfect moment.
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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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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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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 know I only need one punch to knock any guy out.
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I like to fight tough fights.
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I really don’t like watching women fights.
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