I’ve been in deep waters a bunch of times in my fights.
DERRICK LEWISThe one thing about me, if it is a 15-minute fight, I’m fighting every one of them 15 minutes. And if it’s a 25-minute fight, I’ll be fighting all 25 until the bell rings.
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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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I’m an optimistic guy.
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I don’t want to fight once a year. I like fighting every other month.
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You know, once you have the belt you want to be less active, fighting once a year.
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I grew up watching my mom and my stepdad fight.
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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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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 just feel that all the top fighters in the world are making all the money.
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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 know just about everything that really goes on with domestic violence.
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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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Whatever the UFC wants to pay me for, that’s fine.
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The guys in the top five, they’re good everywhere. Me, I’m just almost one-dimensional.
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I don’t care if I am ever remembered in this sport for anything.
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