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.
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 having people doubt me all my life.
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I don’t want to fight once a year. I like fighting every other month.
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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 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 know, once you have the belt you want to be less active, fighting once a year.
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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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I’m serious, I don’t stay in the gym each day like my opponents.
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I don’t know how to do takedowns.
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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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I don’t care if I am ever remembered in this sport for anything.
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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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Whatever the UFC wants to pay me for, that’s fine.
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I’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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Like a lot of people have said, it’s not a bad loss to lose to Mark Hunt, so it’s really like a learning lesson.
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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 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 really don’t punch with my left hand anyways.
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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 made my third parole and I believe if I had made it the first time, I wouldn’t be here today. I still would’ve been out there doing stupid stuff.
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I’m an optimistic guy.
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I believe the tough fights bring out the better fighter in myself.
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You’ve got to try to find some type of mental edge on your opponent.
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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 like being in fun fights.
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I’ll fight anyone.
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