I don’t care if I am ever remembered in this sport for anything.
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.
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I just like being in fun fights.
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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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I don’t care what people think.
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I’m serious, I don’t stay in the gym each day like my opponents.
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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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I’m not scared to fight anyone, I’ll call anyone out.
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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’m just going to keep fighting, try to stay active as much as possible.
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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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My goal is just to make as much money as I can in the sport, and that’s it.
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I grew up watching my mom and my stepdad fight.
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I’ve been in deep waters a bunch of times in my fights.
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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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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’m an optimistic guy.
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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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I don’t care where I’m at in the heavyweight division. As long as I win enough, so they keep me. That’s about it.
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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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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 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 know just about everything that really goes on with domestic violence.
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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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It’s like I say all the time, it’s the heavyweight division. It doesn’t matter if the guys a black belt or if he’s a world-class boxer. We still have a 50-50 chance.
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The sport itself is dangerous. Anything can happen.
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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.
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I just feel that all the top fighters in the world are making all the money.
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