All 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.
DERRICK LEWISLike a lot of people have said, it’s not a bad loss to lose to Mark Hunt, so it’s really like a learning lesson.
More Derrick Lewis Quotes
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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’ve been in that situation many times before – where I’m losing and I have to knock a guy out.
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I hate being in boring fights. It frustrates me.
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The only reason I want to climb up the rankings – beating the champion and beating guys in the top five – those are the guys that get the endorsements and get the most money and get paid the most. That’s the only reason why.
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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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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.
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Whatever the UFC wants to pay me for, that’s fine.
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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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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 don’t care if I ever fight for the belt or get the belt.
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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 go into every fight with a bad back and overweight and a damn-near diabetic.
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I 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.
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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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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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