I really don’t like watching women fights.
DERRICK LEWISI’ve been in that situation three or four times before where I’m losing the fight – the fight seems almost over with – and I knew I had to finish him and stop playing possum as much.
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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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I know just about everything that really goes on with domestic violence.
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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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I’ve been through so much stuff that I hope even my enemies wouldn’t have to go through.
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The only reason I want to climb up the rankings – beating the champion and beating guys in the top five – those are the guys that get the endorsements and get the most money and get paid the most. That’s the only reason why.
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You eat salad and you’re hungry the next 30 minutes and you’re hungrier from when you ate the damn salad.
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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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I’ve been having people doubt me all my life.
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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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I have a couple of properties. Bought some houses and just rent them out.
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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 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 just really want to put the past behind me, because it makes me angry thinking about it. But it’s also the reason I’ve made it this far in my career. It’s like, built up in me. It’s what I think about when I fight. My childhood.
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As long as they pay me good, that’s all I care about.
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I believe the tough fights bring out the better fighter in myself.
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