Everyone else is a mixed martial artist. I’m not a mixed martial artist, I’m a brawler.
DERRICK LEWISI 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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I’m serious, I don’t stay in the gym each day like my opponents.
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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’ve been in that situation three or four times before where I’m losing the fight – the fight seems almost over with – and I knew I had to finish him and stop playing possum as much.
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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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There’s nothing I really want to accomplish. I already set my family up pretty good right now.
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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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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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I don’t care if I am ever remembered in this sport for anything.
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The sport itself is dangerous. Anything can happen.
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I really don’t like watching women fights.
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Whatever the UFC wants to pay me for, that’s fine.
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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 used to only train 30 minutes a day.
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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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