You eat salad and you’re hungry the next 30 minutes and you’re hungrier from when you ate the damn salad.
DERRICK LEWISI tell people all the time that it would be good if they forget about me next week, that they don’t even mention my name anymore.
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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 set some goals for myself. I really want to run through this whole heavyweight division.
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My heart outweighs all the talent. If they’ve got more talent, I believe that my heart will still overcome that. You’ve got to have heart to step inside the octagon anyway.
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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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For sure, I would love to fight in Houston.
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I don’t want to fight once a year. I like fighting every other month.
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I don’t even train for these fights. I’m not mad when people say that because it’s true.
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I really don’t punch with my left hand anyways.
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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.’
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I tell people all the time that it would be good if they forget about me next week, that they don’t even mention my name anymore.
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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 just have a crazy sense of humor.
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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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Whatever the UFC wants to pay me for, that’s fine.
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I 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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