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 LEWISBasically, 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.
More Derrick Lewis Quotes
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I have a couple of properties. Bought some houses and just rent them out.
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I know just about everything that really goes on with domestic violence.
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I don’t even train for these fights. I’m not mad when people say that because it’s true.
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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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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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I set some goals for myself. I really want to run through this whole heavyweight division.
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I go in to fight just to fight. I don’t care about submissions, the technique and all of that.
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The sport itself is dangerous. Anything can happen.
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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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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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Brock Lesnar is not a fighter. He’s scared to be hit.
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If I’m the champion, the whole UFC division should be ashamed of themselves for a guy that had no damn skills being the champion. They should all just go relocate somewhere.
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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 believe the tough fights bring out the better fighter in myself.
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Like 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.
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