You know, once you have the belt you want to be less active, fighting once a year.
DERRICK LEWISI just really want to put the past behind me, because it makes me angry thinking about it. But it’s also the reason I’ve made it this far in my career. It’s like, built up in me. It’s what I think about when I fight. My childhood.
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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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That’s usually the way I am – I don’t care what my opponent can do. I just focus on myself.
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I look at all my opponents, and they could be something else. They could go out and get a normal, regular job. I look at myself and I can’t do that. I have a strike on my back. I can’t have a normal job. So, I’ve got to fight for everything I’ve got.
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I know I’m the least technical guy in the sport. Most of the champions or guys at the top are real martial artists.
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I really don’t punch with my left hand anyways.
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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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I’m an optimistic guy.
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I hate being in boring fights. It frustrates me.
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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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The guys in the top five, they’re good everywhere. Me, I’m just almost one-dimensional.
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I set some goals for myself. I really want to run through this whole heavyweight division.
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I ain’t trying to fight for no title.
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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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I really don’t like watching women fights.
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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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