I don’t care if I ever fight for the belt or get the belt.
DERRICK LEWISThat’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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My goal is just to make as much money as I can in the sport, and that’s it.
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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 used to only train 30 minutes a day.
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I like to fight tough fights.
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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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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 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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Everyone else is a mixed martial artist. I’m not a mixed martial artist, I’m a brawler.
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I’m not scared to fight anyone, I’ll call anyone out.
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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 don’t want to fight once a year. I like fighting every other month.
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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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Brock Lesnar is not a fighter. He’s scared to be hit.
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Whatever the UFC wants to pay me for, that’s fine.
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I wanted to start in boxing, but you have to train a little harder to be a boxer. A lot of those guys can take punches. MMA, you only have to hit someone so hard to knock them out.
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