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I go in to fight just to fight. I don’t care about submissions, the technique and all of that.

Derrick Lewis

I grew up watching my mom and my stepdad fight.
DERRICK LEWIS

Argument Childhood Family Father Fight Grow Up Mom Myself
My goal is just to make as much money as I can in the sport, and that’s it.
DERRICK LEWIS

Goal Money Myself Sports
The guys in the top five, they’re good everywhere. Me, I’m just almost one-dimensional.
DERRICK LEWIS

Dimension Goodness Myself
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.
DERRICK LEWIS

Dreams Introduction Myself Photograph
I don’t care what people think.
DERRICK LEWIS

Care Myself People Thinking
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.
DERRICK LEWIS

Boxing Hit Myself Punch Start
Basically, 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.
DERRICK LEWIS

Fight Heart Myself Thinking
I’ve been in deep waters a bunch of times in my fights.
DERRICK LEWIS

Fight Myself Time Water
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.
DERRICK LEWIS

Fight Myself Normal Opponent Strike
I go in to fight just to fight. I don’t care about submissions, the technique and all of that.
DERRICK LEWIS

Care Fight Myself Submission Technique
I like to fight tough fights.
DERRICK LEWIS

Fight Myself Tough
I’ve been having people doubt me all my life.
DERRICK LEWIS

Doubt Life Myself People
You eat salad and you’re hungry the next 30 minutes and you’re hungrier from when you ate the damn salad.
DERRICK LEWIS

Food Hungry Yourself
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.
DERRICK LEWIS

Act Help Myself Similar
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.
DERRICK LEWIS

Career Fight Kind Myself Pain Wrong
You know, once you have the belt you want to be less active, fighting once a year.
DERRICK LEWIS

Fight Known Yourself
This heavyweight division, it takes just one punch for anyone. It doesn’t matter how hard you train or what.
DERRICK LEWIS

Division Hard heavy Oneself Training
You’ve got to try to find some type of mental edge on your opponent.
DERRICK LEWIS

Edge Finding Opponent Trying Type Yourself
It would be cool to let people know that it doesn’t matter what kind of background you have in your past, that you can still make something out of your life.
DERRICK LEWIS

Kind Known Life Past People Yourself
I just really want to put the past behind me, because it makes me angry thinking about it. But it’s also the reason I’ve made it this far in my career. It’s like, built up in me. It’s what I think about when I fight. My childhood.
DERRICK LEWIS

Angry Childhood Fight Myself Past Reason Thinking
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.
DERRICK LEWIS

Fight Myself Technique Work
I know I only need one punch to knock any guy out.
DERRICK LEWIS

Known Myself Need Punch
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.
DERRICK LEWIS

Believe Myself Stupidity Time
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.
DERRICK LEWIS

Learning Lesson Lose People
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.
DERRICK LEWIS

Believe Heart Myself Talent
I used to only train 30 minutes a day.
DERRICK LEWIS

Day Myself Practice Time Training
I go into every fight with a bad back and overweight and a damn-near diabetic.
DERRICK LEWIS

Fight Health Myself

I go in to fight just to fight. I don’t care about submissions, the technique and all of that.

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