You’ve really got to stay ready 24/7. You really can’t get ready because there’s no telling. They’ll call you short notice to fight anyone so you really have to stay ready.
DERRICK LEWISI believe I get the belt then I’ll get the money. I’m not trying to be the best fighter in the world. It’s all about the cheddar.
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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 go in to fight just to fight. I don’t care about submissions, the technique and all of that.
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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 think Cormier is gonna come out and try to wrestle me, try to get me tired, and try to push the pace. I know he might not say that I’m on his level but I think I am and he thinking that I’m not, really.
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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 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 don’t even train for these fights. I’m not mad when people say that because it’s true.
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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’ve been in deep waters a bunch of times in my fights.
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I just have a crazy sense of humor.
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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 throw so hard because I sit and wait for that perfect moment.
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I gotta work on my overall game.
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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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I’ve been through so much stuff that I hope even my enemies wouldn’t have to go through.
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