I speak my mind too much, and the UFC probably don’t really like that. But I really don’t care.
DERRICK LEWISI 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.
More Derrick Lewis Quotes
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I really don’t like watching women 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 gotta work on my overall game.
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I throw so hard because I sit and wait for that perfect moment.
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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 don’t care if I am ever remembered in this sport for anything.
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I’m not scared to fight anyone, I’ll call anyone out.
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I’ll fight anyone.
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It’s all the stuff I’ve been through in my life. From family struggles, people doubting me, things I went through as a child and going to prison, they all played a factor in who I am today. It really made me a better person. Going through those situations can make or break you as a human being.
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I just feel that all the top fighters in the world are making all the money.
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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 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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George Foreman acts more like my grandfather. He and my grandfather act just alike – they’re both Christian type guys. They try to help everyone.
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If I was really trying to be the best fighter in the world, I would be in the best shape and taking it more serious but I’m not.
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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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