As long as they pay me good, that’s all I care about.
DERRICK LEWISIt’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.
More Derrick Lewis Quotes
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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 just have a crazy sense of humor.
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I grew up watching my mom and my stepdad fight.
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Basically, I guess they just thinking I’ve been winning my fights just by luck. I just think I’ve been winning my fights on heart.
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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.
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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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You’ve really got to stay ready 24/7. You really can’t get ready because there’s no telling. They’ll call you short notice to fight anyone so you really have to stay ready.
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I really don’t like watching women fights.
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I don’t train like a mixed martial artist. I don’t respect the sport like everyone else does.
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George Foreman acts more like my grandfather. He and my grandfather act just alike – they’re both Christian type guys. They try to help everyone.
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I always had dreamed one day Bruce Buffer’s going to be introducing me. Derrick ‘The Black Beast’ Lewis and I just always pictured him saying it.
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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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If I was really trying to be the best fighter in the world, I would be in the best shape and taking it more serious but I’m not.
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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 don’t care if I am ever remembered in this sport for anything.
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