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.
DERRICK LEWISI used to only train 30 minutes a day.
More Derrick Lewis Quotes
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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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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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You’ve got to try to find some type of mental edge on your opponent.
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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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I just feel that all the top fighters in the world are making all the money.
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I don’t care if I am ever remembered in this sport for anything.
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I don’t want to fight once a year. I like fighting every other month.
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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 gotta work on my overall game.
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The sport itself is dangerous. Anything can happen.
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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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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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I don’t even train for these fights. I’m not mad when people say that because it’s true.
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I’m serious, I don’t stay in the gym each day like my opponents.
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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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