I’m serious, I don’t stay in the gym each day like my opponents.
DERRICK LEWISThis heavyweight division, it takes just one punch for anyone. It doesn’t matter how hard you train or what.
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I don’t care if I am ever remembered in this sport for anything.
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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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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’m not scared to fight anyone, I’ll call anyone out.
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I’m fighting just so I can take care of my family.
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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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I’ve been having people doubt me all my life.
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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 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 don’t care what people think.
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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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I don’t care if I ever fight for the belt or get the belt.
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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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I set some goals for myself. I really want to run through this whole heavyweight division.
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