You’ve really got to stay ready 24/7. You really can’t get ready because there’s no telling. They’ll call you short notice to fight anyone so you really have to stay ready.
DERRICK LEWISI like to fight tough fights.
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You know, once you have the belt you want to be less active, fighting once a year.
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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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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 believe the tough fights bring out the better fighter in myself.
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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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You’ve got to try to find some type of mental edge on your opponent.
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I don’t care if I ever fight for the belt or get the belt.
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I don’t care what people think.
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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 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 don’t know how to do takedowns.
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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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I’ve been having people doubt me all my life.
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I like to fight tough fights.
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I’ve been in deep waters a bunch of times in my fights.
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