I’ll fight anyone.
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.
More Derrick Lewis Quotes
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I used to only train 30 minutes a day.
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I go in to fight just to fight. I don’t care about submissions, the technique and all of that.
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I’m serious, I don’t stay in the gym each day like my opponents.
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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 tell people all the time that it would be good if they forget about me next week, that they don’t even mention my name anymore.
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I 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 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 know Cormier is a wrestler so you really got to get them hips down on him so I’ve been working them hips really good.
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I have a couple of properties. Bought some houses and just rent them out.
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I just like being in fun 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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I hate being in boring fights. It frustrates me.
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I don’t care if I am ever remembered in this sport for anything.
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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 wanted to start in boxing, but you have to train a little harder to be a boxer. A lot of those guys can take punches. MMA, you only have to hit someone so hard to knock them out.
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I don’t even train for these fights. I’m not mad when people say that because it’s true.
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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 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.
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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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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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Everyone else is a mixed martial artist. I’m not a mixed martial artist, I’m a brawler.
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I don’t care if I ever fight for the belt or get the belt.
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I know just about everything that really goes on with domestic violence.
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I’ve been in that situation many times before – where I’m losing and I have to knock a guy out.
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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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That’s what really gets me going, thinking about my past. I think about all the tough times and bad times I’ve had in my life and I bring all that into the Octagon. That’s only because it’s hard going in there trying to fight someone who didn’t do anything to you.
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