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.
DERRICK LEWISThe 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.
More Derrick Lewis Quotes
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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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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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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 having people doubt me all my life.
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I’ll fight anyone.
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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 go into every fight with a bad back and overweight and a damn-near diabetic.
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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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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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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 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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My heart outweighs all the talent. If they’ve got more talent, I believe that my heart will still overcome that. You’ve got to have heart to step inside the octagon anyway.
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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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Everyone else is a mixed martial artist. I’m not a mixed martial artist, I’m a brawler.
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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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