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.
DERRICK LEWISI’m an optimistic guy.
More Derrick Lewis Quotes
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I gotta work on my overall game.
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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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Bowing and showing respect – I don’t give nothing about none of that. I’m just coming in and fighting.
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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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You’ve got to try to find some type of mental edge on your opponent.
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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 don’t train like a mixed martial artist. I don’t respect the sport like everyone else does.
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I’m serious, I don’t stay in the gym each day like my opponents.
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I used to only train 30 minutes a day.
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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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Whatever the UFC wants to pay me for, that’s fine.
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It’s like I say all the time, it’s the heavyweight division. It doesn’t matter if the guys a black belt or if he’s a world-class boxer. We still have a 50-50 chance.
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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’m not scared to fight anyone, I’ll call anyone out.
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For sure, I would love to fight in Houston.
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