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.
DERRICK LEWISThe guys in the top five, they’re good everywhere. Me, I’m just almost one-dimensional.
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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 used to only train 30 minutes a day.
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I’m fighting just so I can take care of my family.
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I don’t fight just because I love it just that much. I’m fighting because it’s a job for me.
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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 don’t train like a mixed martial artist. I don’t respect the sport like everyone else does.
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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 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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Whatever the UFC wants to pay me for, that’s fine.
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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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You eat salad and you’re hungry the next 30 minutes and you’re hungrier from when you ate the damn salad.
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I go into every fight with a bad back and overweight and a damn-near diabetic.
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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 speak my mind too much, and the UFC probably don’t really like that. But I really don’t care.
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Basically, I guess they just thinking I’ve been winning my fights just by luck. I just think I’ve been winning my fights on heart.
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