You have 20 fights, you should know what it takes to get yourself ready. If you don’t feel like you’re ready, you let your coach know ‘hey we need to work on a little bit more of this.’
DERRICK LEWISThe guys in the top five, they’re good everywhere. Me, I’m just almost one-dimensional.
More Derrick Lewis Quotes
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I’m serious, I don’t stay in the gym each day like my opponents.
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I just feel that all the top fighters in the world are making all the money.
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That would be great if I could be a role model or inspiration to those who have been in my shoes before.
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I really don’t punch with my left hand anyways.
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I just like being in fun fights.
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I used to only train 30 minutes a day.
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I just believe that my heart is the best in the sport. And I believe that’s what carried me through my whole career. Not my talent or my power or anything like that. I just believe my heart.
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I know just about everything that really goes on with domestic violence.
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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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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 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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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 go in to fight just to fight. I don’t care about submissions, the technique and all of that.
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You’ve really got to stay ready 24/7. You really can’t get ready because there’s no telling. They’ll call you short notice to fight anyone so you really have to stay ready.
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I throw so hard because I sit and wait for that perfect moment.
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