I gotta work on my overall game.
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.
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I don’t want to fight once a year. I like fighting every other month.
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Like a lot of people have said, it’s not a bad loss to lose to Mark Hunt, so it’s really like a learning lesson.
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That would be great if I could be a role model or inspiration to those who have been in my shoes before.
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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 fight just because I love it just that much. I’m fighting because it’s a job for me.
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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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If I’m the champion, the whole UFC division should be ashamed of themselves for a guy that had no damn skills being the champion. They should all just go relocate somewhere.
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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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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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The only reason I want to climb up the rankings – beating the champion and beating guys in the top five – those are the guys that get the endorsements and get the most money and get paid the most. That’s the only reason why.
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I believe the tough fights bring out the better fighter in myself.
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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 hate being in boring fights. It frustrates me.
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There’s nothing I really want to accomplish. I already set my family up pretty good right now.
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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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