I grew up watching my mom and my stepdad fight.
DERRICK LEWISI speak my mind too much, and the UFC probably don’t really like that. But I really don’t care.
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You have 20 fights, you should know what it takes to get yourself ready. If you don’t feel like you’re ready, you let your coach know ‘hey we need to work on a little bit more of this.’
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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 go into every fight with a bad back and overweight and a damn-near diabetic.
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Bowing and showing respect – I don’t give nothing about none of that. I’m just coming in and fighting.
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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 set some goals for myself. I really want to run through this whole heavyweight division.
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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 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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I throw so hard because I sit and wait for that perfect moment.
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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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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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I don’t care what people think.
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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 just like being in fun fights.
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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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