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.
DERRICK LEWISI’m just going to keep fighting, try to stay active as much as possible.
More Derrick Lewis Quotes
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I 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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For sure, I would love to fight in Houston.
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I know I only need one punch to knock any guy out.
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George Foreman acts more like my grandfather. He and my grandfather act just alike – they’re both Christian type guys. They try to help everyone.
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All of my fights, especially all of my UFC fights my whole career, I’ve never been in there without any kind of impingement and pain wrong with my back.
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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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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 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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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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My goal is just to make as much money as I can in the sport, and that’s it.
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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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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 grew up watching my mom and my stepdad fight.
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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 have a couple of properties. Bought some houses and just rent them out.
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