I don’t fight just because I love it just that much. I’m fighting because it’s a job for me.
DERRICK LEWISI go into every fight with a bad back and overweight and a damn-near diabetic.
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I 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.
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I’m serious, I don’t stay in the gym each day like my opponents.
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The sport itself is dangerous. Anything can happen.
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You’ve got to try to find some type of mental edge on your opponent.
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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 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’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’m fighting just so I can take care of my family.
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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 don’t care what people think.
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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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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 really don’t like watching women fights.
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Brock Lesnar is not a fighter. He’s scared to be hit.
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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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