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.
DERRICK LEWISI’ve been in deep waters a bunch of times in my fights.
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That’s what really gets me going, thinking about my past. I think about all the tough times and bad times I’ve had in my life and I bring all that into the Octagon. That’s only because it’s hard going in there trying to fight someone who didn’t do anything to you.
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I just feel that all the top fighters in the world are making all the money.
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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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The guys in the top five, they’re good everywhere. Me, I’m just almost one-dimensional.
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I grew up watching my mom and my stepdad fight.
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Brock Lesnar is not a fighter. He’s scared to be hit.
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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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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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I know just about everything that really goes on with domestic violence.
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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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Everyone else is a mixed martial artist. I’m not a mixed martial artist, I’m a brawler.
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I go in to fight just to fight. I don’t care about submissions, the technique and all of that.
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All of my fights, especially all of my UFC fights my whole career, I’ve never been in there without any kind of impingement and pain wrong with my back.
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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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Bowing and showing respect – I don’t give nothing about none of that. I’m just coming in and fighting.
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