I believe the tough fights bring out the better fighter in myself.
DERRICK LEWIS
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I believe the tough fights bring out the better fighter in myself.
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Whatever the UFC wants to pay me for, that’s fine.
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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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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 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’ve got to try to find some type of mental edge on your opponent.
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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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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.
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I have a couple of properties. Bought some houses and just rent them out.
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The sport itself is dangerous. Anything can happen.
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I’m fighting just so I can take care of my family.
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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 don’t care if I am ever remembered in this sport for anything.
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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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