Bowing and showing respect – I don’t give nothing about none of that. I’m just coming in and fighting.
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.
More Derrick Lewis Quotes
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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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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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I believe the tough fights bring out the better fighter in myself.
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I really don’t punch with my left hand anyways.
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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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My goal is just to make as much money as I can in the sport, and that’s it.
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I just feel that all the top fighters in the world are making all the money.
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I don’t care what people think.
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I go into every fight with a bad back and overweight and a damn-near diabetic.
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I don’t care if I am ever remembered in this sport for anything.
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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’ve been in deep waters a bunch of times in my fights.
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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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It would be cool to let people know that it doesn’t matter what kind of background you have in your past, that you can still make something out of your life.
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I ain’t trying to fight for no title.
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