I believe I get the belt then I’ll get the money. I’m not trying to be the best fighter in the world. It’s all about the cheddar.
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.
More Derrick Lewis Quotes
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I know just about everything that really goes on with domestic violence.
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I used to only train 30 minutes a day.
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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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I grew up watching my mom and my stepdad fight.
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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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I throw so hard because I sit and wait for that perfect moment.
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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 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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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 goal is just to make as much money as I can in the sport, and that’s it.
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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’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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I’m fighting just so I can take care of my family.
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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 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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