I set some goals for myself. I really want to run through this whole heavyweight division.
DERRICK LEWISI set some goals for myself. I really want to run through this whole heavyweight division.
DERRICK LEWISI really don’t punch with my left hand anyways.
DERRICK LEWISI 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.
DERRICK LEWISThe guys in the top five, they’re good everywhere. Me, I’m just almost one-dimensional.
DERRICK LEWISYou eat salad and you’re hungry the next 30 minutes and you’re hungrier from when you ate the damn salad.
DERRICK LEWISI’m an optimistic guy.
DERRICK LEWISI don’t care if I am ever remembered in this sport for anything.
DERRICK LEWISIt’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.
DERRICK LEWISYou’ve got to try to find some type of mental edge on your opponent.
DERRICK LEWISYou know, once you have the belt you want to be less active, fighting once a year.
DERRICK LEWISI 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.
DERRICK LEWISBowing and showing respect – I don’t give nothing about none of that. I’m just coming in and fighting.
DERRICK LEWISI don’t care where I’m at in the heavyweight division. As long as I win enough, so they keep me. That’s about it.
DERRICK LEWISI don’t fight just because I love it just that much. I’m fighting because it’s a job for me.
DERRICK LEWISI know Cormier is a wrestler so you really got to get them hips down on him so I’ve been working them hips really good.
DERRICK LEWISAll 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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