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 LEWISGeorge Foreman acts more like my grandfather. He and my grandfather act just alike – they’re both Christian type guys. They try to help everyone.
More Derrick Lewis Quotes
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I’ve been in that situation many times before – where I’m losing and I have to knock a guy out.
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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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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’m serious, I don’t stay in the gym each day like my opponents.
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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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I’m an optimistic guy.
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My heart outweighs all the talent. If they’ve got more talent, I believe that my heart will still overcome that. You’ve got to have heart to step inside the octagon anyway.
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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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This heavyweight division, it takes just one punch for anyone. It doesn’t matter how hard you train or what.
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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 just like being in fun fights.
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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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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 don’t want to fight once a year. I like fighting every other month.
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