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.
DERRICK LEWISI think Cormier is gonna come out and try to wrestle me, try to get me tired, and try to push the pace. I know he might not say that I’m on his level but I think I am and he thinking that I’m not, really.
More Derrick Lewis Quotes
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I know just about everything that really goes on with domestic violence.
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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.
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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’m not scared to fight anyone, I’ll call anyone out.
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I don’t know how to do takedowns.
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You eat salad and you’re hungry the next 30 minutes and you’re hungrier from when you ate the damn salad.
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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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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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There’s nothing I really want to accomplish. I already set my family up pretty good right now.
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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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It’s all the stuff I’ve been through in my life. From family struggles, people doubting me, things I went through as a child and going to prison, they all played a factor in who I am today. It really made me a better person. Going through those situations can make or break you as a human being.
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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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As long as they pay me good, that’s all I care about.
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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 really don’t punch with my left hand anyways.
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