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.
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.
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It’s like I say all the time, it’s the heavyweight division. It doesn’t matter if the guys a black belt or if he’s a world-class boxer. We still have a 50-50 chance.
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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 go into every fight with a bad back and overweight and a damn-near diabetic.
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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 like being in fun fights.
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I grew up watching my mom and my stepdad fight.
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Brock Lesnar is not a fighter. He’s scared to be hit.
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That’s what really gets me going, thinking about my past. I think about all the tough times and bad times I’ve had in my life and I bring all that into the Octagon. That’s only because it’s hard going in there trying to fight someone who didn’t do anything to you.
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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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I hate being in boring fights. It frustrates me.
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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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There’s nothing I really want to accomplish. I already set my family up pretty good right now.
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I don’t care if I am ever remembered in this sport for anything.
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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 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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