I know I’m the least technical guy in the sport. Most of the champions or guys at the top are real martial artists.
DERRICK LEWISI don’t care where I’m at in the heavyweight division. As long as I win enough, so they keep me. That’s about it.
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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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It would be cool to let people know that it doesn’t matter what kind of background you have in your past, that you can still make something out of your life.
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I’ve been in deep waters a bunch of times in my 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 just really want to put the past behind me, because it makes me angry thinking about it. But it’s also the reason I’ve made it this far in my career. It’s like, built up in me. It’s what I think about when I fight. My childhood.
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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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Whatever the UFC wants to pay me for, that’s fine.
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I really don’t like watching women fights.
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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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I’m serious, I don’t stay in the gym each day like my opponents.
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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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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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This heavyweight division, it takes just one punch for anyone. It doesn’t matter how hard you train or what.
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I made my third parole and I believe if I had made it the first time, I wouldn’t be here today. I still would’ve been out there doing stupid stuff.
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I know Cormier is a wrestler so you really got to get them hips down on him so I’ve been working them hips really good.
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