That would be great if I could be a role model or inspiration to those who have been in my shoes before.
DERRICK LEWISI’m serious, I don’t stay in the gym each day like my opponents.
More Derrick Lewis Quotes
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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 go into every fight with a bad back and overweight and a damn-near diabetic.
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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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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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You know, once you have the belt you want to be less active, fighting once a year.
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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’m serious, I don’t stay in the gym each day like my opponents.
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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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The one thing about me, if it is a 15-minute fight, I’m fighting every one of them 15 minutes. And if it’s a 25-minute fight, I’ll be fighting all 25 until the bell rings.
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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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It would be cool to let people know that it doesn’t matter what kind of background you have in your past, that you can still make something out of your life.
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I’m just going to keep fighting, try to stay active as much as possible.
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I used to only train 30 minutes a day.
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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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For sure, I would love to fight in Houston.
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