I’ve been in deep waters a bunch of times in my fights.
DERRICK LEWISI 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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I’ll fight anyone.
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I don’t care where I’m at in the heavyweight division. As long as I win enough, so they keep me. That’s about it.
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My goal is just to make as much money as I can in the sport, and that’s it.
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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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Everyone else is a mixed martial artist. I’m not a mixed martial artist, I’m a brawler.
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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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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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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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It’s all the stuff I’ve been through in my life. From family struggles, people doubting me, things I went through as a child and going to prison, they all played a factor in who I am today. It really made me a better person. Going through those situations can make or break you as a human being.
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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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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.
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Brock Lesnar is not a fighter. He’s scared to be hit.
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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 really don’t punch with my left hand anyways.
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I speak my mind too much, and the UFC probably don’t really like that. But I really don’t care.
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