I set some goals for myself. I really want to run through this whole heavyweight division.
DERRICK LEWISI 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 just really want to put the past behind me, because it makes me angry thinking about it. But it’s also the reason I’ve made it this far in my career. It’s like, built up in me. It’s what I think about when I fight. My childhood.
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I’m an optimistic guy.
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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 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’m serious, I don’t stay in the gym each day like my opponents.
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As long as they pay me good, that’s all I care about.
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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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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 don’t care if I am ever remembered in this sport for anything.
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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 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 don’t know how to do takedowns.
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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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The sport itself is dangerous. Anything can happen.
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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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