A lot of people said I would never make it, and this and that, I’d never be a top 10 fighter, that I’d never fight for a title. Just stuff like that. Achieving all those goals and being the person that I am, this is going against everything everyone said I couldn’t do.
DERRICK LEWISI go in to fight just to fight. I don’t care about submissions, the technique and all of that.
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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 just feel that all the top fighters in the world are making all the money.
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I like to fight tough fights.
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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’m fighting just so I can take care of my family.
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I believe the tough fights bring out the better fighter in myself.
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I’ll fight anyone.
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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 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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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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Everyone else is a mixed martial artist. I’m not a mixed martial artist, I’m a brawler.
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I don’t want to fight once a year. I like fighting every other month.
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I have a couple of properties. Bought some houses and just rent them out.
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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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I don’t care what people think.
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