I know I’m the least technical guy in the sport. Most of the champions or guys at the top are real martial artists.
DERRICK LEWISEveryone else is a mixed martial artist. I’m not a mixed martial artist, I’m a brawler.
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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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I throw so hard because I sit and wait for that perfect moment.
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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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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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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 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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As long as they pay me good, that’s all I care about.
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I like to fight tough fights.
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I go into every fight with a bad back and overweight and a damn-near diabetic.
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Basically, I guess they just thinking I’ve been winning my fights just by luck. I just think I’ve been winning my fights on heart.
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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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I’m serious, I don’t stay in the gym each day like my opponents.
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There’s nothing I really want to accomplish. I already set my family up pretty good right now.
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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’ve been in deep waters a bunch of times in my fights.
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