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.
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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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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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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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’ve been in that situation three or four times before where I’m losing the fight – the fight seems almost over with – and I knew I had to finish him and stop playing possum as much.
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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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I don’t even train for these fights. I’m not mad when people say that because it’s true.
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I’ve been having people doubt me all my life.
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Basically, I guess they just thinking I’ve been winning my fights just by luck. I just think I’ve been winning my fights on heart.
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Bowing and showing respect – I don’t give nothing about none of that. I’m just coming in and fighting.
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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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I just have a crazy sense of humor.
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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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You’ve got to try to find some type of mental edge on your opponent.
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I don’t care if I am ever remembered in this sport for anything.
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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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