You eat salad and you’re hungry the next 30 minutes and you’re hungrier from when you ate the damn salad.
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.
More Derrick Lewis Quotes
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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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Everyone else is a mixed martial artist. I’m not a mixed martial artist, I’m a brawler.
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I throw so hard because I sit and wait for that perfect moment.
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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 don’t fight just because I love it just that much. I’m fighting because it’s a job for me.
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I grew up watching my mom and my stepdad fight.
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George Foreman acts more like my grandfather. He and my grandfather act just alike – they’re both Christian type guys. They try to help everyone.
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As long as they pay me good, that’s all I care about.
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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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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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This heavyweight division, it takes just one punch for anyone. It doesn’t matter how hard you train or what.
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The one thing about me, if it is a 15-minute fight, I’m fighting every one of them 15 minutes. And if it’s a 25-minute fight, I’ll be fighting all 25 until the bell rings.
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I know just about everything that really goes on with domestic violence.
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I made my third parole and I believe if I had made it the first time, I wouldn’t be here today. I still would’ve been out there doing stupid stuff.
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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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