I’ve been having people doubt me all my life.
DERRICK LEWISI 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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Whatever the UFC wants to pay me for, that’s fine.
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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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Brock Lesnar is not a fighter. He’s scared to be hit.
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I’m serious, I don’t stay in the gym each day like my opponents.
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As long as they pay me good, that’s all I care about.
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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 don’t train like a mixed martial artist. I don’t respect the sport like everyone else does.
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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 used to only train 30 minutes a day.
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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 just going to keep fighting, try to stay active as much as possible.
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I don’t care if I am ever remembered in this sport for anything.
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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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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 don’t want to fight once a year. I like fighting every other month.
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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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There’s nothing I really want to accomplish. I already set my family up pretty good right now.
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My heart outweighs all the talent. If they’ve got more talent, I believe that my heart will still overcome that. You’ve got to have heart to step inside the octagon anyway.
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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 just like being in fun fights.
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I’ve been in deep waters a bunch of times in my fights.
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I don’t care what people think.
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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 hate being in boring fights. It frustrates me.
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I have a couple of properties. Bought some houses and just rent them out.
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I’m an optimistic guy.
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