The sport itself is dangerous. Anything can happen.
DERRICK LEWISI don’t care where I’m at in the heavyweight division. As long as I win enough, so they keep me. That’s about it.
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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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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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I wanted to start in boxing, but you have to train a little harder to be a boxer. A lot of those guys can take punches. MMA, you only have to hit someone so hard to knock them 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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The guys in the top five, they’re good everywhere. Me, I’m just almost one-dimensional.
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I’ve been in deep waters a bunch of times in my fights.
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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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I really don’t punch with my left hand anyways.
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Brock Lesnar is not a fighter. He’s scared to be hit.
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I don’t fight just because I love it just that much. I’m fighting because it’s a job for me.
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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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My goal is just to make as much money as I can in the sport, and that’s it.
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I grew up watching my mom and my stepdad fight.
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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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As long as they pay me good, that’s all I care about.
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