You eat salad and you’re hungry the next 30 minutes and you’re hungrier from when you ate the damn salad.
DERRICK LEWISI throw so hard because I sit and wait for that perfect moment.
More Derrick Lewis Quotes
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I don’t care if I ever fight for the belt or get the belt.
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I go into every fight with a bad back and overweight and a damn-near diabetic.
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I like to fight tough fights.
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I gotta work on my overall game.
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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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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.
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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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The sport itself is dangerous. Anything can happen.
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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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That’s usually the way I am – I don’t care what my opponent can do. I just focus on myself.
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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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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’ve been through so much stuff that I hope even my enemies wouldn’t have to go through.
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I’ve been in deep waters a bunch of times in my fights.
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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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