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.
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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I just have a crazy sense of humor.
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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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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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Basically, I guess they just thinking I’ve been winning my fights just by luck. I just think I’ve been winning my fights on heart.
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I speak my mind too much, and the UFC probably don’t really like that. But I really don’t care.
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I’ll fight anyone.
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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 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 know I only need one punch to knock any guy out.
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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 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’ve been in deep waters a bunch of times in my fights.
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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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I just feel that all the top fighters in the world are making all the money.
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You know, once you have the belt you want to be less active, fighting once a year.
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