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.
DERRICK LEWISA 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 care what people think.
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I know I only need one punch to knock any guy out.
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For sure, I would love to fight in Houston.
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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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I’m serious, I don’t stay in the gym each day like my opponents.
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Whatever the UFC wants to pay me for, that’s fine.
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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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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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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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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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My goal is just to make as much money as I can in the sport, and that’s it.
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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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I know I’m the least technical guy in the sport. Most of the champions or guys at the top are real martial artists.
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I’ll fight anyone.
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I hate being in boring fights. It frustrates me.
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