You eat salad and you’re hungry the next 30 minutes and you’re hungrier from when you ate the damn salad.
DERRICK LEWISI’m an optimistic guy.
More Derrick Lewis Quotes
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I just believe that my heart is the best in the sport. And I believe that’s what carried me through my whole career. Not my talent or my power or anything like that. I just believe my heart.
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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 think Cormier is gonna come out and try to wrestle me, try to get me tired, and try to push the pace. I know he might not say that I’m on his level but I think I am and he thinking that I’m not, really.
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I don’t care if I am ever remembered in this sport for anything.
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I gotta work on my overall game.
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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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I believe the tough fights bring out the better fighter in myself.
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The sport itself is dangerous. Anything can happen.
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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.
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I know I’m the least technical guy in the sport. Most of the champions or guys at the top are real martial artists.
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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.
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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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The one thing about me, if it is a 15-minute fight, I’m fighting every one of them 15 minutes. And if it’s a 25-minute fight, I’ll be fighting all 25 until the bell rings.
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I’m serious, I don’t stay in the gym each day like my opponents.
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That’s usually the way I am – I don’t care what my opponent can do. I just focus on myself.
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