You eat salad and you’re hungry the next 30 minutes and you’re hungrier from when you ate the damn salad.
DERRICK LEWISYou 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.’
More Derrick Lewis Quotes
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I don’t care if I am ever remembered in this sport for anything.
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I’m not scared to fight anyone, I’ll call anyone out.
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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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The only reason I want to climb up the rankings – beating the champion and beating guys in the top five – those are the guys that get the endorsements and get the most money and get paid the most. That’s the only reason why.
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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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The sport itself is dangerous. Anything can happen.
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I’m an optimistic guy.
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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 set some goals for myself. I really want to run through this whole heavyweight division.
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Bowing and showing respect – I don’t give nothing about none of that. I’m just coming in and fighting.
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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 throw so hard because I sit and wait for that perfect moment.
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A lot of people said I would never make it, and this and that, I’d never be a top 10 fighter, that I’d never fight for a title. Just stuff like that. Achieving all those goals and being the person that I am, this is going against everything everyone said I couldn’t do.
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As long as they pay me good, that’s all I care about.
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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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