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.
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 hate being in boring fights. It frustrates me.
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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 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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You have 20 fights, you should know what it takes to get yourself ready. If you don’t feel like you’re ready, you let your coach know ‘hey we need to work on a little bit more of this.’
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I 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.
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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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I speak my mind too much, and the UFC probably don’t really like that. But I really don’t care.
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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 tell people all the time that it would be good if they forget about me next week, that they don’t even mention my name anymore.
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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 what really gets me going, thinking about my past. I think about all the tough times and bad times I’ve had in my life and I bring all that into the Octagon. That’s only because it’s hard going in there trying to fight someone who didn’t do anything to you.
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I gotta work on my overall game.
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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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Everyone else is a mixed martial artist. I’m not a mixed martial artist, I’m a brawler.
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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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