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.’
DERRICK LEWISFor sure, I would love to fight in Houston.
More Derrick Lewis Quotes
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I have a lot of anger built up in me from my childhood. My wife and kids are the only ones who give me peace in this world.
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I go in to fight just to fight. I don’t care about submissions, the technique and all of that.
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That’s what really gets me going, thinking about my past. I think about all the tough times and bad times I’ve had in my life and I bring all that into the Octagon. That’s only because it’s hard going in there trying to fight someone who didn’t do anything to you.
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That would be great if I could be a role model or inspiration to those who have been in my shoes before.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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As long as they pay me good, that’s all I care about.
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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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The guys in the top five, they’re good everywhere. Me, I’m just almost one-dimensional.
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For sure, I would love to fight in Houston.
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You know, once you have the belt you want to be less active, fighting once a year.
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Whatever the UFC wants to pay me for, that’s fine.
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I used to only train 30 minutes a day.
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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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