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.
DERRICK LEWISEveryone else is a mixed martial artist. I’m not a mixed martial artist, I’m a brawler.
More Derrick Lewis Quotes
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The 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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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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You’ve got to try to find some type of mental edge on your opponent.
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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 believe the tough fights bring out the better fighter in myself.
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I’ll fight anyone.
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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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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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If I’m the champion, the whole UFC division should be ashamed of themselves for a guy that had no damn skills being the champion. They should all just go relocate somewhere.
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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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I speak my mind too much, and the UFC probably don’t really like that. But I really don’t care.
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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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I don’t even train for these fights. I’m not mad when people say that because it’s true.
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I don’t want to fight once a year. I like fighting every other month.
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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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