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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.

Derrick Lewis

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.
DERRICK LEWIS

Break Children Doubt Family Life People Prison Struggle
I don’t fight just because I love it just that much. I’m fighting because it’s a job for me.
DERRICK LEWIS

Fight Job Love Myself
I’m just going to keep fighting, try to stay active as much as possible.
DERRICK LEWIS

Active Fight Myself Possible Stay
You eat salad and you’re hungry the next 30 minutes and you’re hungrier from when you ate the damn salad.
DERRICK LEWIS

Food Hungry Yourself
You’ve got to try to find some type of mental edge on your opponent.
DERRICK LEWIS

Edge Finding Opponent Trying Type Yourself
I’ve been having people doubt me all my life.
DERRICK LEWIS

Doubt Life Myself People
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.
DERRICK LEWIS

Learning Lesson Lose People
I don’t even train for these fights. I’m not mad when people say that because it’s true.
DERRICK LEWIS

Fight Mad Myself People Training True
Brock Lesnar is not a fighter. He’s scared to be hit.
DERRICK LEWIS

Fight Hit Myself Scare
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.
DERRICK LEWIS

Champion Division Location Myself Shame Skills
I know just about everything that really goes on with domestic violence.
DERRICK LEWIS

Known Myself Violence
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.
DERRICK LEWIS

Achievement Goal Myself People
I’m fighting just so I can take care of my family.
DERRICK LEWIS

Care Family Fight Myself
I go into every fight with a bad back and overweight and a damn-near diabetic.
DERRICK LEWIS

Fight Health Myself
I look at all my opponents, and they could be something else. They could go out and get a normal, regular job. I look at myself and I can’t do that. I have a strike on my back. I can’t have a normal job. So, I’ve got to fight for everything I’ve got.
DERRICK LEWIS

Fight Myself Normal Opponent Strike
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.
DERRICK LEWIS

Fight Himself Level Myself Pace Thinking

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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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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