I set some goals for myself. I really want to run through this whole heavyweight division.
DERRICK LEWISI’m fighting just so I can take care of my family.
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The sport itself is dangerous. Anything can happen.
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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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It’s like I say all the time, it’s the heavyweight division. It doesn’t matter if the guys a black belt or if he’s a world-class boxer. We still have a 50-50 chance.
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I just believe that my heart is the best in the sport. And I believe that’s what carried me through my whole career. Not my talent or my power or anything like that. I just believe my heart.
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I don’t care if I am ever remembered in this sport for anything.
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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 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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My goal is just to make as much money as I can in the sport, and that’s it.
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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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I’ve been in deep waters a bunch of times in my fights.
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I made my third parole and I believe if I had made it the first time, I wouldn’t be here today. I still would’ve been out there doing stupid stuff.
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Whatever the UFC wants to pay me for, that’s fine.
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I have a couple of properties. Bought some houses and just rent them out.
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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 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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